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Coordinated timetables and through-ticketing
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Examples of rail infrastructure at particular EU airports
Type of rail link
Number of airports
Airports
High-speed rail
1
Lyon Satolas
High-speed rail +
local trains
4
Paris Charles de Gaule, Stockholm Arlanda,
Frankfurt, Oslo Gardermoen
Long-distance trains +
local trains
5
Amsterdam Schiphol, Brussels, Copenhagen,
Berlin Schonefeld, Birmingham
Local trains
18
London airports (Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton,
Stansted), Manchester, Newcastle, Paris Orly,
Malaga, Pisa, Rome, Milano Mapensa, Düsseldorf,
Munich, Stuttgart, Vienna, Friedrichshafen,
Barcelona, Madrid Barajas
Underground trains
4
London Heathrow, Newcastle, Paris Orly,
Madrid Barajas
Links under
construction
4
Nuremberg (metro), Hanover, Dresden, Cologne
Coordinated timetables are based upon the adjustments of arrival and departure times
of HSR and APT at the airport and the rail station located at the airport, which
allows smooth and efficient exchange of passengers and baggage. This includes estab-
lishing the interlinkage between particular services of different transport modes - in
this case, HSR and APT - to achieve minimum connection times. Typically, this
time should be similar, as in the case of unimodal services (ie sufficiently long to
allow smooth and efficient transfer of passengers and their baggage from incoming
to outgoing service). In addition, only one ticket should be used for a trip between
origin and destination independent of the mode used. Although there have not yet
been clear examples of complementarity of any type between HSR and APT in
Western Europe in terms of coordinated timetables and through-ticketing, some
recent plans and real-life cases undertaken by particular actors within the air and rail
industries seem to be promising. These are as follows (BM, 1999; Monox, 1999):
•
The airline British Midland has offered through-ticketing to business passengers
on Heathrow Express rail - the new high-speed rail service connecting Heath-
row Airport with central London - on its flights from Heathrow Airport.
•
French Railway (SNCF) is considering an option to become the first 'non-
airline' member of Star Alliance,
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which will include coordination of timetables
and through-ticketing for airline passengers from major French airports to the
rest of the country by using the Train à Grande Vitesse (TGV) high-speed net-
work. The rail operator already has a limited deal with United Airlines for con-
nections from Lyon Satolas airport.
•
Lufthansa (Star Alliance member) and Deutsche Bahn (DB) launched in the year
2000 a pilot project to allow airline passengers to transfer from air to the Frank-
furt Stuttgart Intercity Express (ICE) rail route, which is expected to replace some
