ALLRAIL, the Alliance of Passenger Rail New Entrants

ALLRAIL, the Alliance of Rail New Entrants, was founded in April 2017 and is one of Europes newest railway associations. It brings together non-incumbent companies from the passenger rail market comprising operators like MTR, Leo Express, WESTbahn, NTV-Italo, RegioJet and iryo, multimodal journey planner and online booking platform Omio, rolling stock lessor Angel Trains, and infrastructure manager Getlink. All our members share the belief that further market liberalisation is the only way to achieve a modal shift to rail and help the European Union (EU) achieve the ambitious targets laid down in the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement. Around Europe, it has been proven that an open rail market leads to: - innovation and improved service - lower fares - passenger growth, and - new jobs. For example, since NTV-Italo began competing against the incumbent Trenitalia in the Italian high-speed market in 2012, average fares have fallen by 41% while demand increased by 101%. The incumb...