friction, and the trains can adapt their capacity to demand, modify-ing their length.” NEW LOGISTICS On the platforms to the stations of the future, new consumption hab-its-such as the growth of electronic commerce and parcel service- require logistical restructuring to respond to that bump in demand for the service, while meeting climate goals. For example, Ignasi Sayol, President of Logistics Cluster of Catalonia, advocates for local and long-distance systems to transport merchandise (why not carry all the parcel service between Madrid and Barcelona on a night train instead of saturating the highways with speeding vans?), along with a meshed network of multi-mode transport stations or innovations like liquid-cooled containers to carry products with little to no electric expense. The community goals require several fronts of attack. Infrastructure investments to assume the expected increase in traffic (new spans, via-ducts, bridges, stations, exchanges… renovation of obsolete facilities) and truly confirm that it is an alternative service to the car or airplane. And in this way, to convince a citizen who would not just be moved by ecological militancy of its profitability and comfort. UPDATED SERVICES The confluence with other sustainable transportation systems will be a way to get there. For example, the space in the train cars reserved for bicycles or pedestrians. Another hook: connectivity with electronic devices for entertainment and work, the train could boast that it connects with the value of optimizing the user’s time. Other measures that could increase railway sustainability, such Connecting Europe Express TRANSPORT On September 2, the Connecting Europe Express, a special train that will travel across 26 European countries, will depart from Lisbon, and arrive in Paris on October 7. It is one of the most original initiatives of the European Year of the Railroad to connect cities across the continent, through events and activities, the goals of its cause. In addition, two of the six train cars in the convoy will house exhibitions about railroad technologies and innovation and the EU infrastructure projects. Railroad companies from at least eight European countries have provided rolling stock to create a train that will stop in Madrid on September 4.