ALLRAIL Alliance of Passenger Rail New Entrants

ALLRAIL Alliance of Passenger Rail New Entrants is rated 3 out of 5 in the category transportation/trucking/railroad. Read and write reviews about ALLRAIL Alliance of Passenger Rail New Entrants. ALLRAIL, the Alliance of Rail New Entrants, was founded in April 2017 and is one of Europe’s newest railway associations. It brings together nonincumbent companies from the passenger rail market comprising operators MTR, Leo Express, Westbahn, NTV, RegioJet and Ilsa Intermodalidad, multimodal journey planner and online booking platform FromAtoB, and rail booking service Trainline. All our members share the belief that further market liberalisation is the only way to achieve a modal shift to rail and help the European Union (EU) achieve the ambitious targets laid down in the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement. Around Europe, it has been proven that an open rail market leads to: - innovation and improved service - lower fares - passenger growth, and - new jobs. For example, since NTV began competing aganist the incumbent, Trenitalia, in the Italian high-speed market five years ago, average fares have fallen by 41% while demand increased by 101%. The incumbent is more profitable than before, and both operators have introduced new trains. In addition, wherever competitive tendering has been introduced for publicly-funded rail services, taxpayer cost has decreased, and quality has improved. While all stakeholders - passengers, taxpayers, the rail sector and legislators - benefit from liberalisation, over 80% of EU passenger rail does not experience any form of competition, so there is a lot of work still to be done.