The report was pulished by UIC – International Union of Railways.

The railway sector is undergoing major change both in Europe and the rest of the world. These changes include the relationship between railways and industry, inter modal competition, interoperability, liberalization of railway passenger traffic in 2010 and the prospect of future development of High Speed in the USA, South America, the Middle East, India and elsewhere. This means railway undertakings will have to change their approach to tendering for new high speed rolling stock. To this end, this report gives an overview of issues relating to high speed rolling stock which should be taken into account and recommends the establishment of common standards for high speed. It should be pointed out that the standards for high speed would depend on the circumstance of the geographical area where the high speed train is operated.

I’ve also uploaded the file to the new Railway 2.0 document repository on Scribd. Hereafter an embedded version of the document.

Necessities for future high speed rolling stock