- Biển số
- OF-34470
- Ngày cấp bằng
- 2/5/09
- Số km
- 2,038
- Động cơ
- 501,820 Mã lực
Ở châu Âu, người ta không còn hào hứng với đường sắt tốc độ cao. Họ không còn chạy lên đến 250km/h nữa.
Europe’s high-speed rail network is a slow, expensive and “ineffective patchwork”, according to a report from the EU’s spending watchdog that criticised costly projects often driven by politics rather than need. The report by the European Court of Auditors found that trains rarely operated at full speed.
They ran on average at 45 per cent of the line’s potential velocity and only two examined reached an average above 200km/h. None was above 250km/h. “Average speed so far below the design speed raises questions as to sound financial management,” the ECA said.
The lines in question were in six EU countries and covered 5,000km.
The report predicts that member states will miss the EU target of having 31,000km of high-speed rail track by 2030, as part of the bloc’s effort to move travellers from road to rail. There was 9,100km of track at the end of 2017, with another 1,700km under construction.
“We found that the EU’s current long-term plan is not supported by credible analysis, is unlikely to be achieved and lacks a solid EU-wide strategic approach,” the report said.
The European Commission, in its official response to the report, did not dispute that the EU had a patchwork of high-speed rail services, but said it performed “rigorous” economic analysis and did have an EU-wide strategic plan — the Trans-European Network for Transport regulation. The new rules were approved by all 28 member states and the European Parliament late in 2013 and gave EU officials the power to partly fund projects and sanction those that failed to meet its requirements.
The projects examined in the ECA report started before 2013 so are not covered by the new rules. EU officials are evaluating the high-speed projects funded since 2014 and will report on those before the end of the year.
One of the problems in meeting the EU’s 2030 target is the time it takes for construction to be completed before trains can start running, on average 16 years.
The Munich-Verona line, which runs through Austria, would not be finished until 2040, 37 years after work started, because a lack of political interest in Germany had stymied it, the ECA found.
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Europe’s high-speed rail network is a slow, expensive and “ineffective patchwork”, according to a report from the EU’s spending watchdog that criticised costly projects often driven by politics rather than need. The report by the European Court of Auditors found that trains rarely operated at full speed.
They ran on average at 45 per cent of the line’s potential velocity and only two examined reached an average above 200km/h. None was above 250km/h. “Average speed so far below the design speed raises questions as to sound financial management,” the ECA said.
The lines in question were in six EU countries and covered 5,000km.
The report predicts that member states will miss the EU target of having 31,000km of high-speed rail track by 2030, as part of the bloc’s effort to move travellers from road to rail. There was 9,100km of track at the end of 2017, with another 1,700km under construction.
“We found that the EU’s current long-term plan is not supported by credible analysis, is unlikely to be achieved and lacks a solid EU-wide strategic approach,” the report said.
The European Commission, in its official response to the report, did not dispute that the EU had a patchwork of high-speed rail services, but said it performed “rigorous” economic analysis and did have an EU-wide strategic plan — the Trans-European Network for Transport regulation. The new rules were approved by all 28 member states and the European Parliament late in 2013 and gave EU officials the power to partly fund projects and sanction those that failed to meet its requirements.
The projects examined in the ECA report started before 2013 so are not covered by the new rules. EU officials are evaluating the high-speed projects funded since 2014 and will report on those before the end of the year.
One of the problems in meeting the EU’s 2030 target is the time it takes for construction to be completed before trains can start running, on average 16 years.
The Munich-Verona line, which runs through Austria, would not be finished until 2040, 37 years after work started, because a lack of political interest in Germany had stymied it, the ECA found.
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