As Infrastructure Manager, we contribute towards creating a single European railway area by carrying out projects to improve the network in line with standardised Community technical and safety rules, essential for making the various national railway systems interoperable.

We participate at all levels (decision-making, management and operations) in cooperation activities with the other European managers, in particular along the freight corridors and multi-modal corridors of the TEN-T network, in order to increase rail's competitiveness compared to other transport methods and laying the groundwork for achieving the 2030 and 2050 European sustainability and modal share objectives established by the 2011 White Paper and strengthened by the December 2020 "Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy".

We carefully and continuously monitor all international activities aimed at increasing the competitiveness of railway transport in compliance with Community regulations and within the framework of constructive partnerships with other European infrastructure managers on a bilateral and multilateral basis to share processes and IT systems.

The creation of a single European railway area requires a great commitment from infrastructure managers to ensure a competitive railway market and a interoperable and high-performance network. The process of liberalising the railway sector, which began in 2001, was carried out over the last twenty years through four railway packages and will be completed with the 2021 timetable with the full opening of national and international passenger and freight transport in Europe.

The interoperability of the national rail networks is planned for 2030 on the lines belonging to the so-called European TEN-T core network by fully implementing standardised performance, technical and safety standards at European level. 






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16 January 2025
T4RAIL IT-SI Project

RFI in cooperation with other partners have successfully applied for the call for standard project proposals no. 02/2023 of the Interreg VI-A Italy-Slovenia programme and launched the T4RAIL IT-SI project for more efficient cross-border rail transport in April.

29 November 2024
Statement of Infrastructure Managers (IM) and Allocation Bodies (AB) in PRIME on effective implementation of the proposed Rail Capacity Regulation

Introduction  The Platform of Rail Infrastructure Managers in Europe (PRIME) was established 2013 in line with Directive 2012/34/EU establishing a Single European Rail Area. The platform has worked on a number of tasks, in particular, on benchmarking as well as coordination on charging and capacity allocation for  cross-border services. PRIME also acts as a platform of dialogue between Commission...