Annual Report 2025 – ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG

ÖBB-Infrastruktur Aktiengesellschaft Group Management Report | Consolidated Financial Statements 61 Decarbonisation of mobility: Road and rail ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG operates a fleet of more than 2,000 motor vehicles and more than 2,000 rail vehicles. Rail Equipment GmbH & Co KG is a fleet manager, full-service vehicle provider and service provider for road vehicles belonging to the ÖBB Group and rail-bound (special) vehicles belonging to ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG. Rail Equipment consistently pursues a Group-wide coordinated decarbonisation strategy that provides for the continuous decarbonisation of the road vehicle fleet. Criteria for emissions and fuel consumption for conventionally powered vehicles are also specified and evaluated. This ensures that the ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG vehicle fleet will continue to be environmentally friendly and equipped with state-of-the-art battery and engine technology in the future. Where possible, preference is given to electric or hybrid vehicles. The expansion of the e-charging infrastructure is also being driven forward as the basis for decarbonising the vehicle fleet. Rail-bound vehicles are used in the existing network to ensure plant availability, the performance of maintenance and assembly work and safe operations. As individual vehicle types will reach the end of their technical service life in the coming years, extensive procurement programmes have been launched. These involve the procurement of high-performance maintenance vehicles and control cars, service jets, ballast wagons and shunting locomotives, which will be delivered by 2034. These procurements will enable existing diesel-powered rail vehicles to be replaced. The vehicles are equipped with an electric hybrid drive, which will enable a significant reduction in fuel consumption in the future. Car sharing An internal car sharing scheme optimises the utilisation of company vehicles. In addition, over 600 vehicles are available to internal and external customers throughout Austria under the “ÖBB Rail&Drive” brand. This is aimed at simplifying access to the rail system, increase customer satisfaction and improve intermodal competitiveness. Due to the positive development, the car sharing service is being continuously developed and expanded through cooperation agreements. Decarbonisation Scope 3 The group-wide recording and reduction of Scope 3 emissions is centrally managed by ÖBB-Holding AG with the involvement of the ÖBB subgroups. As Scope 3 emissions represent a significant contribution to the emissions caused, the direction of decarbonisation is already part of the overarching strategy, #INFRA.mobilitytransition. Due to the fact that some of ÖBB-Infrastruktur Group’s Scope 3 emissions are strongly influenced by the market and its participants and are, therefore, dependent on them (see also the description of the significant Scope 3 levers ( sub-section E1-1 ), there are different levers for implementing decarbonisation. In 2023, work began on developing the first Group-wide strategic initiatives to reduce Scope 3 emissions. Initial measures (e.g. regarding sustainable procurement) are already being implemented on an ongoing basis. In addition to the Group’s strategic priorities, the ÖBB-Infrastruktur Group is also pursuing its own ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (see table of targets in sub-sections E1-3 E1-4) and the strategic priority of reducing the company’s carbon footprint in Scope 3 emissions through sustainable procurement, optimised planning and the active promotion of research and development in this area. Other efforts by the Group, such as the electrification of the rail network, also contribute indirectly to reducing Scope 3 emissions from the use of the rail network (GHG Protocol Category 3.11). In addition, further training and continued efforts to raise employee awareness of Scope 3 emissions play a supporting role.