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'Overall, we ultimately aim to increase awareness and engagement on sustainability topics to promote behavioural change'

Analysis (KiM) expects that trains will replace some 5,600 to 16,000 flights a year until 2030. With an average occupancy of 150 passengers in the air, this would replace between 0.8 and 2.4 million air travel tickets. By 2040, that number could be even greater. If the railways between the Netherlands and different European cities are sufficiently improved, this would account for between 6 and 22 percent of all flights to the

Is the train a piece of cake? Well, according to De Bruin, there is still some room for improvement. “It’s a very nice way to get around, provided you know how. It can be done, but there are obsta cles, such as price and service, when booking and transferring.”

According to a report published in October 2023, the Netherlands Institute for Transport Policy

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