Integrating inland waterway transport in smart shipping and multimodal logistics chains
Funds pilots that connect inland waterway shipping into digital, multimodal freight logistics chains across Europe.
This European Commission call funds pilots that connect inland waterway transport into digital, multimodal freight logistics chains across Europe, testing smart-shipping and smart-infrastructure solutions in real operational settings to help lift the sector's low share of Europe's freight traffic. The required demonstration pilots must run at a minimum of TRL 7, in real operational environments ra…
The Commission wants projects that digitally and physically connect inland waterway transport (IWT) to other transport modes, testing smart-shipping and smart-infrastructure solutions in real operational pilots to help lift IWT's stubbornly low share of Europe's freight traffic.
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