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3.2. ERTMS
UNIFE suggests that ERTMS is considered as a top priority
throughout the Presidency to promote a fast and coordinated
migration to ERTMS throughout the EU.
To date, about 62000 km of tracks worldwide
are contracted to be equipped with
ERTMS or are already in service². The system
is a proof of European excellence, and
investments outside Europe now account
for more than 50% of total ERTMS sales.
In Europe, ERTMS has been successfully
implemented in number of countries, and
where this has been the case, infrastructure
managers and operators are already
reaping the benefits of their investments
in terms of safety, speed and capacity (e.g.
Spanish and Italian High Speed networks, high-density lines in Switzerland, etc.).
A new Memorandum of Understanding on ERTMS involving the European Commission,
the European Railway Agency and the railway associations (CER, UIC,
UNIFE, EIM, GSM-R Industry Group and ERFA) was signed on 16 April 2012 during
a Danish Presidency event in Copenhagen, jointly chaired by Danish Transport
Minister Henrik Dam Kristensen and Commission Vice-President Siim Kallas.
UNIFE calls upon the Member States to accelerate the
deployment of ERTMS in Europe as a matter of urgency,
especially on the six ERTMS corridors.
² Please see UNIFE ERTMS Deployment statistics on http://www.ertms-online.com/
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