NS Railinfratrust

NS Railinfratrust BV

Type	Government agency
Industry	Rail Transport
Founded	1995
Headquarters	Utrecht, The Netherlands
Products	Rail Infrastructure Management, Railway Capacity Allocation, Traffic Control
Revenue	€ 1.260 billion (2006)
Operating income	€ 31 million (2006)
Net income	€ 0 (2006)
Employees	2,651 (2006)
Website	http://www.ivw.nl

The Railinfratrust Company (RIT) is the owner of the Dutch railtracks. ProRail B.V. is the part of RIT that takes care of maintenance and extension of the national railway network infrastructure, of allocating rail capacity, and of traffic control. NS Railinfratrust is a government agency but is not the same company as Nederlandse Spoorwegen. NS Railinfratrust consists of the following inframanagement organisations: Railinfrabeheer (Rail Infrastructure Management, RIB); Railned (railway capacity allocation) (planning more than 52 hours before the day of the train service); Railverkeersleiding (Traffic Control) (planning from 52 hours before the day of the train service)

History

NS Railinfratrust Ltd was founded as a result of the separation of track and trains in 1995. It is the holding company of the three organisations NS Railinfrabeheer (RIB), Railned and NS Verkeersleiding (NSVL). These three NS-organisations work for the Ministry of Traffic and Water. They were part of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen organisation but were separated on 1 July 2002. Since 1 January 2003 NS Railinfratrust has used the trading name of ProRail.

On 1 January 2003 the three railinfratrust companies (NS Railinfrabeheer Ltd, Railverkeersleiding Ltd and Railned Ltd) merged to form ProRail Ltd. The railway security function of Railned was transferred to the Inspection Service of the Ministry of Traffic and Water. ProRail Ltd is now responsible for capacity management, traffic control, Inframanagement, Infraprojects, track development and ICT services.

See also

• Transportation in the Netherlands.
• ProRail.
• Nederlandse Spoorwegen

External links

• Nederlandse Spoorwegen
• Network statement 2003 (pdf-file, 646 kB)
• ProRail