Sustainable Competitive Digital Green Rail Freight Services
Funds one flagship consortium to roll out digital automatic couplers, automated yard shunting and cross-border freight booking systems for European rail.
The project is expected to run 30 months. Its grant agreement can start retroactively from the date the application was submitted, rather than from the date of signature, though applicants have to justify why a retroactive start date is needed, and only costs incurred from that earlier date become eligible. Award isn't a one-time decision: the Joint Undertaking runs ongoing reviews and maturity ch…
This topic wants a single large-scale Flagship Project split into full digital freight train operations, built around the Digital Automatic Coupler (DAC), and seamless freight, covering cross-border timetable planning and multimodal booking systems. It expects demonstrations of DAC Type 4/5 couplers, automated brake testing, yard shunting automation, and a seamless-freight-corridor demonstrator across parts of two European corridors, with one activity specifically located in Central/Eastern Europe.
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