Objective
Rail freight transportation is a system service where a multitude of players, participants and systems providers bear a high degree of responsibility for its attractiveness and performance. It shows high efficiency as transportation means, in terms of land use and energy consumption and low greenhouse gas emissions. However rail’s market share of freight transportation and its economic efficiency continues to be limited. Aimed at overcoming such uncertainty, this project addresses one of the most important key resources for further developing rail freight transportation: the optimization of the performance of the rail freight wagon. The continuous pressure on environmental issues and energy efficient transport is forcing the rail transportation sector to enhance the rail logistics services and to incorporate innovative solutions to improve load capacity to keep the “best-in-class” position and, therefore, acquiring a much privileged position beyond alternative terrestrial transport source, as truck transportation. Thus, aimed at optimizing rail freight transportation, the main objective of this project is to holistically address the aspects that may improve freight wagon performance: enhanced logistics, improved multimodal operative, higher load capacity, optimized filling/emptying time and flexibility to transport multi-products.
This project aims to achieve such optimization by combining industrial expertise on the freight wagon design and construction, advanced materials for lightweight construction and logistics with the research capabilities to incorporate innovation solutions and optimize material performance.
Field of science
- /engineering and technology/mechanical engineering/vehicle engineering
- /engineering and technology/civil engineering/transportation engineering/railroad engineering
Topic(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-MG-2014_TwoStages
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
08260 Suria
Spain
Participants (8)
08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles (Barcelona)
08017 Barcelona
971 87 Lulea
2800 Kgs. Lyngby
981 38 Kiruna
08208 Sabadell Barcelona
61380 Oxeloesund
75272 Paris