Introduction and affirmation of car trains in the European Union

Abstract

We live in a time of continuous technical and technological development. It is the time of globalization which is the main driver of the technological procedures in the process of executing transport services. Railway transport in Europe requires special attention, since it has a number of attributes which are not being effectively used. Measures to reduce the use of road network have been prepared, which would consequently increase railway transport. Individuals in personal vehicles could reduce transport costs with the increasing use of railway transport.The introduction of car trains in Europe is also supported by the European Union, but there has been very little done in the European car train system. The first goal of the European union seems to be understandable : using piggyback transport to redirect as much road freight transport as possible to the European railway system. Car trains in the integrated European rail system are one of numerous possibilities of how to offer a user of personal vehicle and his fellow passengers a safe, comfortable,economical and ecologically acceptable way of travel on a specific distance in the local or global sense of combined transport of vehicles and passengers. Å½ivimo v Äasu nenehnega tehniÄnega in tehnoloÅ¡kega razvoja. Å½ivimo v Äasu globalizacije, ki je glavno gonilo tehnoloÅ¡kih postopkov v procesu izvajanja prometnih storitev. Posebno pozornost je potrebno posveti Å¾elezniÅ¡kemu transportu, saj ima veliko pozitivnih lastnosti, ki jih v Evropi se ne izkoriÅ¡Äamo dovolj. Pripravljeni so ukrepi, ki bi zmanjÅ¡ali uporabo cestnega omreÅ¾ja, s Äimer bi se poveÄal Å¾elezniÅ¡ki transport. Posamezniki v osebnih avtomobilih bi tako z veÄjo rabo Å¾elezniÅ¡kega transporta zmanjÅ¡ali prevozne stroÅ¡ke. Uvajanje avtovlakov v Evropi podpira tudi Evropska unija, vendar je bilo v evropskem sistemu avtovlakov zelo malo narejenega. Prvi cilj unije v oprtnem transportu je razumljiv, da se Äim veÄ cestnega tovornega prometa, preusmeri na evropski Å¾elezniÅ¡ki sistem. Avtovlaki v integriranem evropskem Å¾elezniÅ¡kem sistemu so ena od Å¡tevilnih moÅ¾nosti, kako uporabniku osebnega vozila in njegovim sopotnikom ponuditi varno, udobno, varÄno in ekoloÅ¡ko sprejemljiv naÄin potovanja na doloÄeni relaciji v lokalnem ali globalnem smislu kombiniranega prevoza vozil in potnikov.