Rolling stock owners call for action on rail’s ‘patchwork of increasingly expensive technologies’

EUROPE: The Association of European Rail Rolling stock Lessors has called for the more co-ordinated deployment of ERTMS, changes to subsidy policies and measures to ensure life-time support of vehicles. It says these measures are needed to avoid disrupting procurement and to avoid rail pricing itself out of the freight market.

‘Lessors are calling for a regulatory framework that supports innovation without limiting the use of existing assets, that is stable and based on industrial capacities and serious cost-benefit analyses’, said Fabien Rochefort, Chair of AERRL which represents Akiem, Railpool, Beacon, Northrail, RENFE Alquiler, Cargounit, Nexrail, ELL and RS Lease.

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