Safety

Press releases on safety topics

• 1.
  Press release 06.12.2011

  Topic: Passenger Service,  Safety

   

  Injury figures: fatality risk in cars is 67 times greater than trains

  Railways are by far the safest transport mode

  

  Train travel? It's safer!

  Berlin. Right across Europe, travelling by train is safer than by car. In Germany, the railways have also retained their top position as the safest transport mode. According to Pro-Rail Alliance calculations, the overall average fatality risk for the period from 2004 to 2010 in …

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• 2.
  Press release 31.08.2011

  Topic: Safety,  Cargo

   

  Row over routes for LHV trials / where and how still unclear

  "Minister's approach is frivolous"

• 3.
  Press release 25.02.2011

  Topic: Cargo,  Safety

   

  Several states now want longer, heavier vehicles on truck roads

  “Restricting LHVs to motorways was just window-dressing”

• 4.
  Press release 25.01.2011

  Topic: Cargo,  Safety

   

  Safety risk LHV: new dimension in road traffic

  Police, automobile club and railway alliance warn on accidents

• 5.
  Press release 25.01.2011

  Topic: Cargo,  Safety

   

  Transport ministry: LHV trials to last five years

  “Satisfying road hauliers overrides public opinion”

• 6.
  Press release 20.12.2010

  Topic: Passenger Service,  Safety

   

  Travel is 60 times safer by rail than car

  Passenger fatalities: ‘Vision Zero’ is already a reality for the railways

• 7.
  Press release 07.10.2010

  Topic: Cargo,  Safety

   

  State transport ministers put the brake on nationwide LHV trials

  “From today, the planned trials are politically dead”

• 8.
  Press release 29.06.2010

  Topic: Cargo,  Safety

   

  National trials of mega trucks to be massively extended

  "These trials are obviously going to be a free-for-all"

• 9.
  Press release 18.03.2010

  Topic: Safety

   

  New figures on accident risk for different for modes of transport

  “Railways well ahead of road competition”

• 10.
  Press release 20.01.2010

  Topic: Cargo,  Safety,  Environment

   

  Pro-Rail Alliance response to government plans for LHVs

  “Coalition has no plausible justification for test journeys”