Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail) aims to deliver, via an integrated system approach, a high-capacity, flexible, multimodal, sustainable, reliable and integrated EU railway network for European passengers and cargo.
The rail sector faces also a major challenge on how to increase freight traffic in such timeframe, delivering a competitive transport service but also reaching out and attracting new potential customers. To support the easy usage of rail freight and multimodal services and a seamless switch towards rail, harmonised or even standardised models transport agreements and contracts are needed.
The Project stemming from this topic should address this challenge including analytical models based on today’s EU freight transport market that will help to visually identify by the freight customers the most suitable supply chain flows for rail transport, from both a CO2 and business perspective.
Taking into account the transport models (at regional, national and European levels) that have already been developed and used by private / public authorities for their planning, the areas of R&I, which needs to be addressed to tackle the above-mentioned expected outcomes are:
Proposals are expected to promote cooperation between different actors (involving as needed the supply chain starting with the customers, the logistic sector, the rail freight industry, relevant combined transport / inland waterways operators, terminal operators and research institutions) and consider opportunities brought by the integration of rail technological innovation in the supply chain.
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