2017-2020 Transport Plan

Throughout the course of the period December 2017-2020, SNCB's new transport plan aims to extend rail services by 5.2%, 0.8% of which had already been completed with the timetable change of the 10/12/2016 including the addition of 72 new trains spread across the week and weekend.

By 2020, 20% of stops will thus enjoy new connecting services or ones with increased frequency during the week. 114 stops will be better served during peak hours and/or mornings or late evenings. At weekends, more than 120 stops will benefit from improved services. In particular, on Saturdays we envisage a range of services intended for towns for shopping. And on Sundays, additional trains will be commissioned for students.

 

In terms of journey times, they will be reduced by an average of 3% for the one hundred most important origin-destination pairings. With its new transport plan, SNCB also aims to promote the intermodal nature of its range of services in order to standardise connecting services with other public transport companies.

 

On this page, you can watch a short animation explaining the challenges in the 2017-2020 transport plan, as well as various presentations for each province.

Information sessions in every province

The details of the expansion of the range of rail services as well as the investment projects throughout the provinces were communicated during the month of March 2017 at roadshows to which all the mayors and their elected representatives were invited. Click on the links below to view the various presentations and press releases published as part of the March 2017 information sessions to explain the 2017-2020 transport plan.

Liège	20/03/2017	Presentation	Press release
Namur	21/03/2017	Presentation	Press release
Western Flanders	23/03/2017	Presentation (NL)	Press release
Eastern Flanders	24/03/2017	Presentation	Press release
Walloon Brabant	27/03/2017	Presentation	Press release
Limbourg	28/03/2017	Presentation (NL)	Press release
Brussels-Capital	28/03/2017	Presentation	Press release
Flemish Brabant	29/03/2017	Presentation (NL)	Press release
Luxembourg	30/03/2017	Presentation	Press release
Hainaut	31/03/2017	Presentation	Press release
Antwerp	19/04/2017	Presentation (NL)	Press release