A promising step towards addressing cross-border transport challenges was finally achieved when the Transport Committee in the Swedish parliament announced that the government should develop a national strategy for cross-border rail traffic to reduce the vulnerability of the transport system (as part of the proposals for the National Plan 2018-2029). The plan is currently submitted for comments and will be decided in the first half of 2018. It should be noted that the national transport plans of Norway and Sweden will then cover the same planning period (2018-29).