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RAILENERGY Railway operators agree that energy consumption is one of the key environmental factors, together with the related emissions/air quality and noise. There are strong incentives on the part of the sector to reduce energy consumption so as to redu ...
EuropeanTransport Scotland commissioned MVA Consultancy to undertake an analysis of responses to the 'Rail 2014' public consultation. The year 2014 is a milestone year as the next ScotRail franchise is due to begin and the funding arrangements for Netwo ...
United KingdomNEAR2050 The overall objective of NEAR2050 is to determine the long-term needs of different actors in the railway sector. NEAR2050 analyses and takes into account developing technologies, new societal trends, and changing demographics among others in orde ...
EuropeanAIDE The AIDE Integrated Project (IP) has been set up to address HMI issues within a general European joint effort towards the large-scale deployment of Intelligent Road Safety Systems and, ultimately, a significant reduction of road accidents. HMI design ...
EuropeanLivingRAIL Several studies have been commissioned in recent years in Europe regarding the development of a European-wide, competitive, and efficient transportation system. The majority of these studies have led to visions towards a new culture of mobility ...
EuropeanON-TIME The project draws on previous research projects and national trials. Previously, railways have improved their own networks to remove bottlenecks and increase fluidity. Such changes have generally been done ad hoc, so results and best practice have ...
EuropeanNTR The rail transport is one of the main opportunities regarding transportation safety and environmental protection. In order to make the enjoyable experience as travel by train, there is now need the big railway companies to identify innovative solutio ...
EuropeanThis action is part of the construction of intermodal terminal in Central North Planning Development Region in Bulgaria- Ruse" global project that aims to improve intermodality in the south-eastern region of the EU. It plans to create the conditions ...
BulgariaAdditional track for the Betuwe Line between Zevenaar and Oberhausen More freight trains due to expansion of the Betuwe Line Transport on the Betuwe Line has increased in recent years. The expectation is that this upward trend will continue in the years a ...
NetherlandsPlease, find on this link the Interim Evaluation of the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (2014-2016). Shift2Rail (S2R) is the first European rail initiative to seek focused research and innovation (R&I) and market-driven solutions by accelerating the inte ...
EuropeanINNOTRACK Infrastructure accounts for about 70% of railway systems' total costs. Rail infrastructure managers spend millions of euros each year on maintaining network infrastructures throughout Europe while the supply industry is investing hundreds o ...
EuropeanMAINLINE Growth in demand for rail transportation across Europe is predicted to continue. Much of this growth will have to be accommodated on existing lines that contain old infrastructure. This demand will increase both the rate of deterioration of these ...
EuropeanCAPACITY4RAIL In 2011, the White Paper on European Transport reasserted how fundamental transport was for society, for the mobility of European citizens and for the growth and vitality of the European economy. CAPACITY4RAIL will deliver research that is i ...
EuropeanNeTIRail-INFRA The Needs Tailored Interoperable Railway project (NeTIRail-INFRA) takes a holistic view of capacity, reliability, customer expectations, and the economics of rail transportation, including understanding the wider economic and societal impac ...
EuropeanLCC The implementation of High Speed Railway (HSR) networks involves a large amount of financial support imposing, at the conception and design stage, a complete and rigorous estimation of the total costs involved in the lifecycle of the system. Using app ...
PortugalThe Sofia-Elin Pelin railway section, located on the Orient/East Mediterranean TEN-T Core Network Corridor, represents a bottleneck since it does not meet the requirements for passenger and freight transport users/operators in terms of speed/travel time, ...
BulgariaThe project aims at the preparation of the necessary studies for the rehabilitation of the Ruse-Varna railway line in northeast Bulgaria that connects the river port of Ruse and the sea port of Varna. The improved railway line will contribute to eliminati ...
BulgariaThe overall objective of the Action is to contribute to the improvement of the Mediterranean–Scandinavian Corridor part in Finland (Global Project). The Global Project in Helsinki is located in the node of two core network corridors: the Mediterranean–Sc ...
FinlandThe action covers the upgrading of the railway line section Škrljevo-Rijeka-Jurdani, a current bottleneck on the Croatian part of the Mediterranean corridor. The action is a part of a Global project aimed at upgrading and re-constructing the Škrljevo-Rije ...
CroatiaThe Rail Freight Corridor 6 (RFC6) aims at making international rail freight transport more competitive and attractive on a route of over 7.000 km, connecting Almeria (Spain), Lyon (France), Milan (Italy), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Budapest (Hungary) and Zaho ...
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