17/12/2019 (Agence Europe) – On Monday 16 December, the European Commission authorised an increase in public aid to encourage the transfer of freight transport from road to rail in Austria’s mountainous regions, including the Brenner region. The amended scheme, with a supplementary budget of €205.2 million for 2020-2022, aims to make the use of ‘rolling highways’ (the transport of trucks by rail) cheaper and therefore more attractive for transport operators than road transport....