The “Rail Map 2030,” a roadmap designed to boost the transport of goods by rail and to promote its integration into supply chains, has been unveiled within the framework of the “Forum for the Key Players in Rail Freight Transport,” according to the Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles, as announced this Friday.
Conceived as an open document and in permanent update, the plan currently includes the participation of 30 companies and entities. It includes the analysis of five operating models—which illustrate different formulas for incorporating the train into freight transport—, the identification of five main barriers—among them demand that is still not yet well established or the limited reliability of the door-to-door chain— and eleven key recommendations to achieve that “more goods are put onto the train.”
Among these recommendations are the location of traffic flows and corridors with greater potential, the comparison of proposals with shippers and users, the detailed definition of actions, those responsible and calendars, as well as the establishment of indicators that make it possible to measure progress, the foundation details in a note.
The “Rail Map 2030” is the result of the work of the Working Group to Promote Rail Freight Transport, constituted last March and promoted by the Oficina del Comisionado del Corredor Atlántico, the Centro Español de Logística (CEL) and the Plataforma Tecnológica Ferroviaria Española (PTFE). Management of the latter falls to the Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles, while the technical secretariat is carried out by IDOM.
The four promoting entities took part this Thursday in the presentation of the report, in a round table moderated by the commissioner of the Corredor Atlántico, José Antonio Sebastián Ruiz, and which included the participation of the managing director of the Fundación and manager of the PTFE, Ángeles Táuler.
“This work has made it possible to compare the needs of demand with the current conditions under which services are provided, identify the main difficulties and move toward solutions that respond to the real needs of the market. ‘Rail Map 2030’ captures this shared diagnosis and establishes a basis on which to guide future actions to increase the use of rail in logistics chains,” describes the Corredor Atlántico on its website.