Railway activities: The ARAF takes advantage of its Annual Report for 2012 publication to address recommendations to the infrastructure managers

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The annual activity report is the time for any authority to review the important elements of the past year but also to provide an overall analysis of the sector it regulates. The report for 2012 issued by the Rail Regulatory Authority (ARAF) does not call this principle into question. While in part the Authority presents its missions, services and operating methods, as well as an assessment of its regulatory activities (such as its role in analysing all railway infrastructures or services or in charging for minimum services), this report gives us the opportunity to take stock of the three essential elements of rail regulation today, namely the development of