Together with the daily newsletter with main news published on its website and the summary of (Spanish) headlines concerning railways, it launched a new service starting from last October.

The new service offers an overview on covers and summaries of main railways specialized magazine worldwide. So, you’ll find summaries of magazines such as Tecnirail, Ei Der Eisenbahn Ingenieur, La Vie du Rail, Railway Age, Tramways & Urban Transit, Voies Ferres, European Railway Review, ETR, Railway Gazette, IRJ, I Treni, La Tecnica Professionale, etc…

As a matter of fact, the service is at its third issue.

I find it a good job, suggested to anyone wants to have an overview on hot topics discussed around Europe and not only.

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

Universities, professionals, professors, researchers are invited to share and publish the results of their investigations. Given the localisation of Via Libre, papers will be submitted (I hope only for a while) in Spanish.