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Tracking the ups and downs of cross-border train travel in the EU

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Let’s be honest, how often do you take the train when crossing borders in the EU? We know flying is anything but sustainable. Yet, the prospect of jetting to our family, friends, or holiday destination fast and (ahem) cheap is all too tempting. Trains have a hard time competing against planes: booking is complicated, trips often take longer, and prices can be irrationally high.

We join forces with Philipp Cerny to untangle the complexity of EU cross-border train travel. After all, Europe has one of the densest railway networks in the world, but markets, policy and incentives seem to move like a slow train coming…

About our guest

Philipp Cerny is a transport policy consultant and the Chief Executive Editor of the European Mobility Atlas 2021. He has worked as an advisor on transport policy at the European Parliament and was a member of the supervisory board of a German railway company.

Hosted & produced by: Victor Aguilar & Alexander Roth

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Chapters

1. Welcome (00:00:00)

2. European Mobility Atlas (00:04:46)

3. Problems with cross-border train travel (00:06:47)

4. Cooperation is needed (00:21:53)

5. Competition and incumbents (00:25:29)

6. EU policies (00:30:01)

7. Costs and flexibility of trains (00:39:31)

8. Countryside (00:43:37)

9. Next Mobility Atlas (00:44:45)

10. Outro (00:45:43)

21 episodes

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Let’s be honest, how often do you take the train when crossing borders in the EU? We know flying is anything but sustainable. Yet, the prospect of jetting to our family, friends, or holiday destination fast and (ahem) cheap is all too tempting. Trains have a hard time competing against planes: booking is complicated, trips often take longer, and prices can be irrationally high.

We join forces with Philipp Cerny to untangle the complexity of EU cross-border train travel. After all, Europe has one of the densest railway networks in the world, but markets, policy and incentives seem to move like a slow train coming…

About our guest

Philipp Cerny is a transport policy consultant and the Chief Executive Editor of the European Mobility Atlas 2021. He has worked as an advisor on transport policy at the European Parliament and was a member of the supervisory board of a German railway company.

Hosted & produced by: Victor Aguilar & Alexander Roth

Useful links

Listen

… to a few of our previous episodes

Subscribe

Contact

  continue reading

Chapters

1. Welcome (00:00:00)

2. European Mobility Atlas (00:04:46)

3. Problems with cross-border train travel (00:06:47)

4. Cooperation is needed (00:21:53)

5. Competition and incumbents (00:25:29)

6. EU policies (00:30:01)

7. Costs and flexibility of trains (00:39:31)

8. Countryside (00:43:37)

9. Next Mobility Atlas (00:44:45)

10. Outro (00:45:43)

21 episodes

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