{"id":217851,"date":"2025-05-15T20:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T10:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/?p=62470"},"modified":"2025-05-15T20:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T10:02:18","slug":"aerrl-and-infrabel-to-test-net-zero-rail-fleet-solutions-for-freight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=217851","title":{"rendered":"AERRL and Infrabel to test \u2018net-zero rail fleet\u2019 solutions for freight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Belgian infrastructure manager Infrabel and the Association of European Rail Rolling Stock Lessors (AERRL) have been cooperating on how to achieve a \u201cnet-zero rail fleet\u201d. This collaboration is now taking more concrete steps, as new traction systems will be tested in three different use cases for rail freight.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span id=\"more-62470\"><\/span>The three use cases will be a long-distance, multi-voltage freight connection, shunting operations in port areas and a short-distance national freight connection. For this initiative, biofuels (such HVO, renewable gas and ammonia) and hybrid solution (electric-battery or electric-diesel) will be deployed, assessed and compared to traditional diesel traction.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"readmore\">\n<div class=\"readmore-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/technology\/2025\/04\/14\/report-likely-fraud-with-hvo-leaves-doubts-over-emission-savings\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/shutterstock_2175122431-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"readmore-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/technology\/2025\/04\/14\/report-likely-fraud-with-hvo-leaves-doubts-over-emission-savings\/\" class=\"readmore-title\">Report: Likely fraud with HVO leaves doubts over emission savings<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<h2>Results by the end of the year<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe data to be used as a basis for Infrabel&#8217;s analysis will be ready in July. Infrabel will then begin the analysis, which should take about 6 months\u201d, AERRL Secretary General Carole Coune told RailFreight.com. The locations for the use cases have not yet been chosen, she added. Once the tests are done, \u201cInfrabel will lead a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis from a social perspective\u201d, AERRL said.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative follows a study carried out by AERRL, Akiem, Beacon and Cargounit at the end of April 2023. Among the main conclusions of this study was that a full electrification of European railways by 2050 is quite an unrealistic goal. Back then, HVO was proposed as a transitional solution, while battery-electric traction is considered as the most appropriate approach.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"readmore\">\n<div class=\"readmore-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/technology\/2023\/05\/08\/eu-rolling-stock-association-full-electrification-by-2050-is-not-realistic\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/locomotive-3595011_1920-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"readmore-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/technology\/2023\/05\/08\/eu-rolling-stock-association-full-electrification-by-2050-is-not-realistic\/\" class=\"readmore-title\">EU rolling stock association: full electrification by 2050 is not realistic<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belgian infrastructure manager Infrabel and the Association of European Rail Rolling Stock Lessors (AERRL) have been cooperating on how to achieve a \u201cnet-zero rail\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9707,5661,7907,5264,47,48],"tags":[12634],"class_list":["post-217851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerrl","category-alternative-fuels","category-hvo","category-infrabel","category-rail-news","category-technology","tag-railfreight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217852,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217851\/revisions\/217852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}