{"id":39159,"date":"2026-05-13T21:19:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adriaports.com\/uncategorized\/brenner-rola-loses-ground-fewer-lorries-on-rail-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:20:24","slug":"brenner-rola-loses-ground-fewer-lorries-on-rail-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adriaports.com\/en\/logistics\/brenner-rola-loses-ground-fewer-lorries-on-rail-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Brenner, RoLa loses ground: fewer lorries on rail in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TRIESTE &#8211;<\/strong> The transport of lorries by rail along the Brenner corridor is losing ground: <strong>in 2025 volumes fell again, while Innsbruck is calling for higher road tolls<\/strong> to make rail more competitive.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called <strong>Rollende Landstra\u00dfe (RoLa), the system that allows trucks to cross the Alps loaded onto trains<\/strong>, is failing to take off. According to Austrian press reports, <strong>2025 saw a decrease of around 1,000 vehicles, with a total of 102,000 trucks carried by rail along the Brenner axis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The comparison with the past points to a structural decline: <strong>in 2010, 245,000 lorries were loaded onto trains, more than twice<\/strong> current levels. The figure highlights the difficulties facing a tool designed to reduce Alpine road traffic and emissions.<br \/>\nThe system continues to be supported by <strong>public subsidies, amounting to around 100 euros per truck transported<\/strong>. Despite this, volumes remain far from the estimated potential, which according to Austrian sources could reach up to 318,000 vehicles a year.<br \/>\nFrom an economic standpoint, the picture also remains critical for rail operators. \u00d6BB Rail Cargo Group closed 2025 with losses of 136 million euros, a sign of the still fragile balance in the combined transport segment.<\/p>\n<p>A clear position is coming from Tyrol. Transport councillor Ren\u00e9 Zumtobel points out that road haulage remains too competitive compared with rail. For this reason, he is calling for a <strong>significant increase in motorway tolls in Italy and Germany, considered necessary to shift freight flows towards rail.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRIESTE &#8211; The transport of lorries by rail along the Brenner corridor is losing ground: in 2025 volumes fell again, while Innsbruck is calling for higher road tolls to make rail more competitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-logistics","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Brenner, RoLa loses ground: fewer lorries on rail in 2025 - AdriaPorts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tyrol calls for higher tolls in Italy and Germany to support rail freight and rebalance traffic\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adriaports.com\/en\/logistics\/brenner-rola-loses-ground-fewer-lorries-on-rail-in-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brenner, RoLa loses ground: fewer lorries on rail in 2025 - 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