Rail passenger and freight traffic increased between 2015 and 2019, according to the eighth monitoring report on the state of the rail market, published by the European Commission on Wednesday 27 September.
On average, passenger traffic, in terms of passenger-kilometres, rose by 3% per year between 2015 and 2019. Over this pre-Covid-19 period, most countries’ modal share of rail passengers increased slightly. The length of the high-speed network has increased by almost 1,500 km between...