EREX differs from any other energy settlement system. This gives
obvious advantages:
A single European railway area
EREX is the only system that works truly cross-border,
independently from the countries or train operators involved. EREX
is also open-source and easily adapted to any existing systems.
This makes it a crucial cornerstone in building a single European
railway area.
Traffic moved from road to railway
EREX makes the railway a more attractive choice. Through making
the railway more efficient and reducing its energy consumption and
costs, EREX increases the competitiveness of the railway against
all other transportation modes. It helps moving traffic from road
to railway.
Increased interoperability
With a more attractive railway, there will be stronger forces for
transporting goods by rail. Directly or indirectly, this is likely
to increase the efforts for enlarged interoperability between
different transportation modes.
"Energy settlement systems facilitate energy supply from a
competitive energy market"
Increased cross-border rail operations requires the use of
different energy suppliers. Energy settlement systems helps Rail
Undertakings and Infrastructure Managers monitoring their energy
consumption and related costs. This, of course, encourages
competition; the systems facilitates for energy supply from a
competitive energy market. Concepts such as Third Party Access
encourages operators to buy electricity at an open and
non-discriminatory way.
Hendrik Abma, Executive Director, European Rail Infrastructure
Managers