Infrastructure capacity: The French Regulatory Authority for Rail and Road Activities sets up incentive mechanisms to encourage the efficient use of infrastructure capacity

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On the occasion of complaints lodged by railway operators in the context of applications for dispute settlement, the Authority had observed that both the infrastructure manager and the operators applying for or holding train paths could behave in a way which was not compatible with the requirements of optimum use of the infrastructure. In view of this observation, the Authority called for a mechanism to be put in place to provide incentives to improve these practices. The finding Under the current provisions of Article 21 of the amended Decree of 7 March 2003 on the use of the rail network, operators wishing to apply for train paths must submit their