TY - JOUR N2 - Due to different reasons a significant modal shift from railway to road transport took place over last decades. The basic reasons are pointed in the paper introduction together with contradicting transport policy taking into account environmental and economical challenges. Political vision to stimulate modal shift from road and air to railway cannot become true without achieving railway technical and operational interoperability. Paper describes wide range of technical barriers between individual intraoperable railway systems in civil engineering structures, traction power supply, control command and signalling and the ways, which are being applied to ensure stepwise converging of the technical solutions taking into account safety and technical compatibility, as well as other essential requirements, namely: reliability, accessibility, health and environment. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/103298/PDF/21%20Analysis%20Chal%20Safe%20Trans%20Ind%20Intraop%20Rlwy%20Sys%20Sngl%20Eur%20Interop%20Rlwy%20Sys.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/103298 PY - 2016 IS - No 4 / II EP - 180 KW - railway system KW - interoperability KW - intraoperability KW - railway civil engineering KW - traction power supply KW - control command and signaling KW - cross-acceptance, safety A1 - Pawlik, M. PB - WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING and COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES DA - 31.12.2016 T1 - Analyse of the challenges for safe transition from individual intraoperable railway systems to the single European interoperable railway system SP - 169 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/103298 T2 - Archives of Civil Engineering ER -