Regional Rail Services / Innovative Rail Services to Revitalise Capillary Lines
Funds one flagship consortium to build low-cost signalling, communications and customer-service technology that revives Europe's regional and low-density rail lines.
The grant's own indicative project duration is 30 months, and unusually, the starting date can be set retroactively to the application's own submission date if the applicant justifies the need for it in the proposal itself -- work doesn't have to wait for the grant agreement to be signed before costs start counting as eligible. Progress isn't just reported passively: the Joint Undertaking runs its…
This topic wants a single large-scale Flagship Project that adapts control, communications and asset technologies to make regional and capillary rail lines cheaper to run. It expects demonstrations of a single integrated Operations Control Centre for disconnected regional lines, cost-efficient 4G/5G/satellite train communications, automated train operation adapted for regional use, energy self-sufficient wayside components, and multimodal passenger information covering the last mile.
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