Railway-Energy.org
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Introduction
Description
from the combustion of fossil fuels, especially. The energy use in rail transport depends on the energy efficiency. Rail systems are characterised by their high efficiency. No other transport system has a similar volume capacity of transportation attained through such low levels of energy consumption use. The high energy efficiency is a main environmental characteristic of rail transport systems and apply both to passenger and freight rail transport.
Even though rail is more energy efficient than most other transport modes, significant efforts are made on the company level in the last decade to reduce the energy use further.
One key means of improving energy efficiency is for the Railways to deploy advanced technologies. The Railways have, on several occasions, put focus on the energy issue at special conferences, e.g. at UIC Conferences. The UIC - International Union of Railways is the world-wide organisation for railway co-operation and is active in all the fields involved in developing rail transport. The UIC-sub-commission "Energy Efficiency" initiated in 2001 a project where all relevant railway energy-saving technologies should be analysed, categorised and evaluated.
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