Written question – Single rail booking tool – E-003070/2025

Question for written answer  E-003070/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Günther Sidl (S&D)

In the hearing of 4 November 2024, the Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, announced that a single EU-wide rail booking tool would be developed as early as 2025.

• 1.Can the envisioned timeline be met, that is to say, will the Commission present such an EU-wide booking tool before the end of 2025?
• 2.When will rail travellers in Europe be able to access this tool?
• 3.Will the tool be compatible with the Open Sales and Distribution Model tool currently under development, by means of which the Austrian, German and Swiss national railway companies (ÖBB, DB and SBB respectively) are currently working on harmonisation?[1]

Submitted: 24.7.2025

• [1] https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000243574/eu-startet-neuen-anlauf-fuer-einheitliche-bahntickets-in-europa