New relative consumption values for power used in freight transport

Berne, 02.08.2017 - Infrastructure managers need to alter their relative consumption values for power for the 2019 timetable year. The Railways Arbitration Commission (RACO) has set out distinctions in the previous flat rates for power.

RACO carried out an investigation process to examine relative consumption values for traction power required by long-distance freight trains, and determined that a uniform flat-rate tariff for all freight train types amounts to discrimination in network access.

RACO therefore instructed infrastructure managers to introduce an additional relative consumption value for the train category “Long-distance freight train” in the 2019 List of Infrastructure Services. This category includes freight trains with accompanied and unaccompanied combined transport, long-distance freight trains, entire trains, and short-distance single wagonload trains.

RACO’s decree dated 8 June 2017 is legally binding. SBB Infrastructure will now present data by 1 September, along with proposals for implementing differentiated, discrimination-free relative consumption values for the train category “Long-distance freight train”.

Thanks to previous efforts, the industry has already been able to reduce relative consumption values to 0.0168 kWh/Btkm. The possibility of measuring power directly from catenary has also been introduced.

 


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Patrizia Danioth Halter, Chair, RACO, GS-DETEC, Tel. +41 58 467 86 52


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