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Best Practice Factory for Freight Transport (BESTFACT)
Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,
The BESTFACT objective is to develop, disseminate and enhance the utilisation of best practices and innovations in freight logistics that contribute to meeting European transport policy objectives with regard to competitiveness and environmental impact.BESTFACT builds up on the work of BESTUFS, PROMIT and BESTLOG and integrates four interrelated areas of the key freight logistics challenges the Eu ...
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RIS services for improving the integration of inland waterway transports into intermodal chains (RISING)
Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2012,
River Information Services (RIS) are operational in European waterway corridors in a variety of sophistication levels. Their major objective is to collect and distribute river related information in order to support not only public waterways authorities, but also commercial operators in the Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) sector. The use of such information for logistics purposes is still quite un ...
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Toolkit for sustainable decision making in ITS deployment (2DECIDE)
Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2011,
2DECIDE addresses one of the most important ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems and Services) deployment related challenges on European level: Support and speed up consistent decision making related to ITS deployment for road and public transport (timely, cost-effective, interoperable, positive impact to urban and interurban mobility, positive cost/ benefit ration).A number of EU-documents have add ...
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Benchmarking Logistics and Co-modality (BE LOGIC)
Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,
Efficient use of transport modes and resources requires understanding the options and alternatives and being able to make the right logistics choices. Benchmarking is an instrument which can help to answer this question. Differences in the performance of various modes within the transport sector of a given country, and between the transport systems of different countries, imply that there is a sig ...
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Vision and Action Plans for European Freight Transport until 2050 (FREIGHTVISION)
Start date: Aug 14, 2008, End date: Feb 13, 2010,
In the next years and decades the European Union need to act on the following global challenges: How to ensure and increase economic growth whilst also reduce environmental emissions (mainly Co2) and dependence on fossil energy, when freight transport demand (in terms of transport performance) is expected to increase by around 50% between 2000 and 2020 in the EU-25 (Project ASSESS Final Report, 20 ...
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