IF articles

Summary - The European disciplines launched in the last decade of the 1900s to introduce competition into railway transport system, guarantee access to the infrastructure without discrimination and facilitate the development of railway as an ecological means of collective transport, have led to transformations in structure of services and also in international relations. In the following decades, these changes led to a progressive oblivion of the use of railways for international services, compared to other types of transport. However, in the past few years, there has been a gradual return to use trains for both day and night travels and also cross-border. This would need to grow in the new reference framework imposed by increasing attention towards the use of renewable sources for transport and towards reduction of CO2 emissions.