All Country profile articles – Page 19
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South Africa - country profile
TFR’s freight volumes recovered during the late 2000s, due to a focus on heavy haul and trunk flows. PRASA runs extensive commuter services around the big cities and some inter-city services.
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United States of America - country profile
Rail freight dominates having 40% tonne-km market share, whilst only the Northeast Corridor carries significant long-distance passenger traffic. Major cities have metro and light rail systems.
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United Arab Emirates - country profile
A national network for freight transport is under development, with the first section in service. Dubai has both metro and light rail, while Abu Dhabi is developing plans.
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Saudi Arabia - country profile
Two vertically-integrated government companies operate the network, being expanded through heavy-haul, land bridge and high-speed projects. Metros are being built in Riyadh, Jeddah and Makkah.
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Australia - country profile
Most rail investment has focused on heavy-haul mineral traffic in Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales. A 1700 km Melbourne – Brisbane Inland Rail freight corridor is under construction.
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Austria - country profile
Austria’s geographical position makes it a key European transit route for both east – west and north – south rail traffic, with freight traffic increasing its modal share by a third between 2000 and 2010.
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Belgium - country profile
Following completion of HSL 1, built to connect Brussels with the French section of LGV Nord Europe, Infrabel has overseen the construction of three more high speed lines.
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Brazil - country profile
After decades of under-investment, the Brazilian state operator RFFSA was split up and privatised into concessions in 1997. Freight concessions were auctioned by the federal government.
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Chile - country profile
Chile has both metre and broad-gauge networks, with a mix of private and concessioned operations. In Santiago, investment in passenger services, especially the metro, has seen network expansion.
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China - country profile
The world’s largest high-speed network continues to grow, and China is now creating an ‘8x8’ grid of routes. It has also opened more than 40 new metros since 2000.
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Denmark - country profile
Fixed links across the Great Belt and Øresund have had considerable investment, with the Fehmarn Belt now following. There are ambitious plans for electrification, network and metro expansion.
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Finland - country profile
Rolling programmes of electrification and incremental mainline upgrades have improved inter-city passenger services, with most of the network now fit for use by Pendolino and double-deck inter-city trains.
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France - country profile
One of the pioneers of high-speed railways, France has invested heavily in developing its Paris-centred long-distance railway network by building new high-speed lines.
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Germany - country profile
Since reunification much investment has been channeled into ‘unity projects’ meant to integrate east and west, into other high-speed railway projects, rolling stock and station modernisation.
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Indonesia - country profile
Having seen decades of under investment, Indonesia is now seeing a resurgece in rail investment covering the existing main line network as well as new high speed projects and metro corridors in Jakarta.
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Italy - country profile
Italian network investment has focused on constructing the high speed and high capacity network Alta Velocità/Alta Capacità between the main cities.
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Japan - country profile
There has been slow, but steady expansion of the Shinkansen network, with a government programme of extensions to the network until at least 2035.
