MEP Izaskun Bilbao (Renew Europe, Spain) presented to the European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) on Monday 15 March a draft own-initiative report taking a bleak view of the deployment of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) launched in 1990.
This deployment remains “slow and patchy”, and interoperability “has not been achieved”, she noted.
By the end of 2020, only 13% of the core network corridors were operating with ERTMS and the deployment...