Aragon will have a Plan of momentum of the carriage of goods by rail

The Government of Aragón has initiated work to have a study with a view to the Plan of momentum of the carriage of goods by rail. This objective requires a framework of cooperation and joint efforts between the various public-private bodies which will define and realize investments both in the field of infrastructure and of rolling stock.

The Government wants to also count with data on demand for potentially abonnements carriage of goods by rail with data from both consolidated corridors and others of great capacity and future development. Improve the capacity of attraction of the territory and to promote their joint internal and in relation to other territories, which clears possible economic desvinculaciones of the peripheral territories is one of the objectives.

Finally, the study wants to identify the main problems and dysfunctions to optimize the design and the connections of the Aragonese Railway terminals. The overall objective, therefore, aims to have a document which will focus, above all, in the movement of goods by rail through conventional lines, once the traffic of passengers have diverted considerably to the high speed line.

The momentum Plan of the carriage of goods by rail includes the creation of the basic network of goods through the packaging for these trafficking of conventional along those corridors, lines to the service lines of high speedthey may engage in preferably burdens. This basic network of goods includes some variations on the conventional network. The Plan also includes the construction of sections of mixed traffic.

The Ministry of public works in this Plan, among other things, contemplates the extension of the length of the sidings to allow trains of greater length and new signalling systems, as well as the increase in the electrical power supplied to enable capacity-building of the rail system.

Another of the strong points of the Plan of the Ministry is collaboration between the ports, rail and logistics platforms, aspect in which the Aragonese territory may play a role of front line.

The Ministry of public works introduced the so-called Plan of momentum of the carriage of goods by rail, which is included in the Strategic Plan of the infrastructure of the transport (PEIT) past 14th at an event in which the Director of works was present publicUrban planning and transport of the Government of Aragon, Alfonso Vicente. The Plan is endowed with 7,500 million euros and the Ministry wants to develop it in the next 10 years.