Towards a new organisation for Austrian national railway company
Updated: December 2004
ÖBB is about to be converted in a holding, that will head up four independent operating Anonymous Companies in charge of the following activities: passengers transport, freight transport, traffic management, network building and upgrading.
One objective pursued by this major reform is to bring public subsidies at a level of €4.1bn by 2010: they amount to €4.4 bn currently and are expected to reach €5.1 bn in 2010 without reform.
The reform will allow high levels of investments in the infrastructure with more than €1bn per year.