{"id":6971,"date":"2025-06-16T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.p698116.webspaceconfig.de\/transport-law-rdtw-article-the-train-path-usage-contract-in-civil-court-practice-dr-frank-wilting\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:38:00","slug":"transport-law-rdtw-article-the-train-path-usage-contract-in-civil-court-practice-dr-frank-wilting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/transport-law-rdtw-article-the-train-path-usage-contract-in-civil-court-practice-dr-frank-wilting\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport law: RdTW article &#8220;The train path usage contract in civil court practice&#8221; | Dr. Frank Wilting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published in issue 05\/2025 of the trade journal <strong>Recht der Transportwirtschaft (RdTW)<\/strong> <a href=\"\/f-1-36-117-dr-frank-wilting.html\"><strong>Dr. Frank Wilting<\/strong><\/a>, member of the <strong><a href=\"\/verkehrstraeger-schiene.html\" title=\"Rail sector\">Competence Team Transport Law &amp; Rail<\/a><\/strong> at TIGGES, published a comprehensive article on the topic of &#8220;<strong>The train path usage contract in civil court practice<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The article analyzes the development of case law on the liability of railroad infrastructure companies (RIUs) in the event of delayed provision of train paths &#8211; and focuses in particular on the current <strong>BGH ruling<\/strong> of 2 April 2025 (XII ZR 15\/23). This is because the Federal Court of Justice clarifies that the train path contract is to be classified as a rental contract without restriction &#8211; with far-reaching consequences for the <strong>liability of the EIU in the event of financial losses<\/strong> of the railroad undertaking (RU) due to delayed train path provision. The article provides a well-founded and practical explanation of the legal groundwork that has been laid, what significance this has for regional rail transport and freight transport companies and why the short <strong>limitation period under tenancy law<\/strong> of 6 months is fully relevant for claims by the RU due to damage to the infrastructure &#8211; for example in the event of derailments &#8211; even if this was not explicitly clarified by the Federal Court of Justice in this decision.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/index.php?menuid=xxmenuidxx&amp;downloadid=209&amp;reporeid=xxreporeidxx\" title=\"RdTW May 2025 Path utilization\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for the article.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/13-shutterstock-80479513.jpg\" alt=\"AVV rail transport contribution\" title=\"AVV rail transport contribution\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\"><\/p>\n<section>\n<h2 class=\"section-title\">The author and your usual contacts will be happy to answer any questions you may have!<\/h2>\n<div class=\"single-contact-person\">\n<div class=\"single-contact-person--image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/13-Frank-Wilting-sm.png\" alt=\"Frank Wilting\" title=\"Frank Wilting\" width=\"645\" height=\"650\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"single-contact-person--text\">\n<p><a href=\"\/f-1-36-117-dr-frank-wilting.html\">Dr. Frank Wilting<\/a> <br \/> wilting@tigges.legal <br \/> +49 211 8687 242<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In issue 05\/2025 of the trade journal Recht der Transportwirtschaft (RdTW), Dr. Frank Wilting publishes a comprehensive article on the topic of &#8220;The train path usage contract in civil court practice&#8221;.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigges.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}