Sentence examples for priority freight from inspiring English sources

Regarding 'Commercial, Service Quality and Planning', the issue that stood out was the ability to freely integrate, through equal priority, freight and passenger services, which should be considered a key requirement of the railways of the future.

The Commission put the priority freight corridors here, and the integrated system, which has clock-face scheduling in local passenger rail transport and also allows regular-interval long-distance transport in Germany as well as freight transport, needs to be particularly well coordinated.

Amtrak is supposed to have priority over freight trains, but if any of the freight trains or the Coast Starlight has a problem, the schedule can fall apart.

"The members of Congress from both parties who approved that law intended to ensure that Amtrak trains receive priority over freight trains.

Many respondents were very positive about the modal shift potential of giving equal priority to freight train services such as the SPECTRUM concept [5].

With respect to open and equal access to terminals and an equal planning priority for freight and passenger rail, the policy has been stymied by member state opposition.

Inherent weaknesses (e.g. dependency on road for door-to-door service; lower priority of freight train in path allocation; speed) and aging rolling stock, have also played their part.

Having taken similar projects in London and New York City into consideration, passenger traffic received priority over freight trains.

The Coast Starlight runs on railroad tracks that give priority to freight traffic.

Some have gone as far as saying that, with this regulation, the Commission wants to give priority to freight trains over passenger trains, thus threatening the efficient provision of rail passenger services, in particular at regional and local level.

Mr. Kulyenov marveled at how quickly freight trains headed in the opposite direction moved onto sidings to make way for his high-priority shipment.