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The FERRMED standards that we intend to establish are the following:
- Reticular and polycentric network with a great socio-economic and intermodal impact (comprising of three great North-South and three great East-West Trans-European axes, jointly with their corresponding subsidiary main feeder lines).
- In the main branches of the great axes:
Electrified (preferentially 25.000 volts) conventional lines with double track, giving priority or exclusiveness to common freight traffic suitable for trains with per axle load of 22,5 ÷ 25 tons.
High performance parallel lines available for exclusive or preferential use of passenger and light fast moving freight transportation, properly connected with the main airports network.
- Width of the tracks: UIC
- UIC C loading gauge
- Trains length reaching 1.500 meters and from 3600 to 5000 tons of loading capacity
- The maximum slope of 0, 012 and limitation of the length of the ramps
- Availability of a network of intermodal polyvalent and flexible terminals with high level of performance and competitiveness, based in the harbors and main logistic nodes of the great axes.
- Usable length of sidings and terminals for 1500 m. trains.
- Unified management and monitoring systems by main branches of every great axis.
- ERTMS system with “two ways working” along the tracks.
- Availability of capacity and traffic schedules for freight transportation “24 hours a day and 7 days a week”
- Harmonization of the administrative formalities and the social legislation.
- Transport system management shared with several rail operators (free competition)
- Favorable fees for the use of infrastructures, bearing in mind the socioeconomic and environmental advantages of the railway.
- Management philosophy based on the principles of the R+D+4i in the rail freight network, as an integral part of the global chain of added value.
- Reduction of the environmental impact of the freight transporting system (particularly noise, vibration, and CO2 emissions) as a result of the retrofitting of the old railway rolling stock, infrastructural solutions where needed, and an increase in the share of the rail in long distance land transportation of up to 30÷35%.
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