Objective The VIT project (Vision for Innovative Transport) is about the development of computer vision technologies for an innovative system for intermodal shipment of containers and swap bodies named Metrocargo. Currently contain-ers are only shipped by complete trains from point A to point B, because they loaded vertically, which cannot be done on the regular railway track under the electric feeding line. Trains must be shunted to loading yards using diesel traction, loaded, brought back to the electrified line with diesel locomotives, have the electric locomotive attached and the brakes checked. These operations are time consuming and costly. Metrocargo loads and unloads trains horizontally on the regular railway track in less than on hour. In the Metrocargo vision a network of terminals, connected by scheduled freight trains, will be set up all over the European territory. Containers will be transferred from one train to another, as it happens to passengers, and carried by lorry to their final destination. In the next few years 8-10% of current long distance road traffic can be transferred to rail, with comparable deliv-ery time and lower costs. To finalize the design of the Metrocargo equipment vision systems need to be devel-oped to assure precise handling, verification of train composition and plant safety and security. The VIT research program will respond to such needs and give the SME participants market-ready and pat-entable know-how . The scientific and technological objectives are the study, design and development of (i) a robust and redundant vision system for precise positioning of the lifting units for automatic load/unload, (ii) vision functionalities to check the correctness of train loading, (iii) an innovative prototype of a low-cost 2D visual mod-ule to scan the train composition, (iv) a video-surveillance system to monitor automatic operation areas where personnel should not enter, (v) a system security infrastructure to detect possible system failures. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputer vision Keywords 3D reconstruction OCR computer vision dynamic event recognition motion analysis process simulation and automation statistical learning Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-1 - Research for SMEs Call for proposal FP7-SME-2007-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME - Research for SMEs Coordinator I.LOG INIZIATIVE LOGISTICHE SRL* EU contribution € 470 450,00 Address CORSO PERRONE FERDINANDO MARIA 28 16152 GENOVA Italy See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Renzo Ferraris (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all MOLINARI RAIL AG Switzerland EU contribution € 243 750,00 Address SCHULSTRASSE 11 8542 WIESENDANGEN See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Michele Molinari (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data WITT INDUSTRIEELEKTRONIK GMBH Germany EU contribution € 189 750,00 Address WESTSTRASSE 1 13405 Berlin See on map Region Berlin Berlin Berlin Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Thomas Keese (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SYSTEMS NAVIGATOR CONSULTANTS BV Netherlands EU contribution € 203 750,00 Address Delftechpark 38 2628 XH Delft See on map Region West-Nederland Zuid-Holland Delft en Westland Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Rienk Bijlsma (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA Italy EU contribution No data Address VIA BALBI 5 16126 Genova See on map Region Nord-Ovest Liguria Genova Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Laura Montanari (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SPEED POLAND SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA Poland EU contribution No data Address WLODKOWICA 21 50072 WROCLAW See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Agata Gorwa (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SAT Simulations- und Automations-Technologie AG Germany EU contribution No data Address Badenweilerstrasse 4 79115 FREIDBURG See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Thomas Arzt (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data IMAVIS SRL Italy EU contribution No data Address Via F. Lli Carpigiani 4 40138 BOLOGNA See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Alberto Lovato (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Nethergate DD1 4HN Dundee See on map Region Scotland Eastern Scotland Angus and Dundee City Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Lynn Mackintosh Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data