Since the commercial deployment of the rail motorways between Aiton (France) and Orbassano (Italy) in 2003 and Bettembourg (Luxembourg) - Perpignan (France) in 2007, LOHR Railway System has proved its reliability and performance in real operating conditions.
- More than 500,000 semi-trailers transported
- About 250,000 km/year per wagon
- 1.2 million incident-free opening and closing cycles
- 300 million truck-kms saved on the roads
- 300,000 tons of CO² saved
The Alpine Rail Motorway
- Between Aiton and Orbassano: 175 km
- Put into service on 4 November 2003
- Traffic status:
- Semi-trailers alone: 80%
- Complete trucks with driver: 20%
- High growth in traffic for 4 m high semi-trailers: 47%
- Commercial success:
- Train filling rate: 86%
- 31,616 semi-trailers transported in 2013
The Perpignan – Luxembourg Rail Motorway
- Between Bettembourg and Perpignan: 1000 km
- Put into service in September 2007
- 4 trains/day/direction
- The LOHR wagon enables P400 semi-trailers to be transported on a GB1 gauge line i.e. P55/P400
- Max. capacity: 90,000 trucks/year
Calais – Le Boulou rail motorway:
- 105 double LOHR UIC wagons have been ordered for the needs of the service between the Port of Calais and Perpignan
- Journey of 1400 km
- 2 return journeys /day
- 5 trains with 20 double LOHR UIC wagons