Applicants for railway infrastructure capacity should be able to plan and request railway infrastructure capacity on an annual basis through the working timetable. Applicants should also be able to request railway infrastructure capacity further in advance for stable, multi-annual rail services through framework agreements. Finally, applicants should be able to request capacity close to the time of operation for individual trains through ad hoc capacity requests or for repeated train services through rolling planning requests. Since rolling planning is particularly convenient for rail freight services due to their characteristics, capacity allocation through the rolling planning process should concern at least rail freight services.
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