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Since 2003 and the commercial deployment of several railroad lines highways, LOHR Railway System has proven its reliability and performance in real operating conditions and has become a reference system for road-rail modal shift.

• 2 million semi-trailers transported
• 250,000 km/year per wagon
• 4 million opening and closing cycles without incident
• 750 million truck-km saved on the roads
• 2.8 Million 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