Extension dataset on average speeds along railway sections

As an extension to a previous calculation conducted on behalf of DG Regio of the European Commission, RRG now provided a geodataset on average speeds along railway sections based upon timetables of summer 2000. In a previous calculation RRG provided the same information based upon the summer timetable of 2010. Now two datasets are available allowing to analyse the development of average railway speeds in a period of 10 years. Changes towards higher speeds may be caused by improvements on the railway tracks or on the rolling stock, as well as through optimizations of the timetabls; however, there are also sections with lower speeds which may be caused by either replacement of high-quality services (such as IC trains) through low-quality services (such as regional trains) or by missing investments into the tracks.