Partners of ChemMultimodal discussed during their 3rd Policy Advisory Group meeting on 7 March 2019 in Brussels the coming EU Combined Transport Directive. The event provided an opportunity to share the learning of the project's pilot phase with both the Vice President of the European Parliament, Prof. Bogusław Liberadzki, and the... read more
Topic: Transport
The team of the Interreg Central project SubNodes visited the pilot site Zidlochovice (CZ). This town gets a direct rail connection to 25 km northward situated Brno; thus the current bus line will be discontinued. In the context of SubNodes the regional transport agency KORDIS, in cooperation with the local polulation, elaborates the... read more
Topic: Transport
Today the results of the 3rd call of the Interreg Central Europe programme have been published. Among the 44 approved projects are three which have been developed by core-consult. Their thematic aims are integrating refugees in rural areas, enhancing the attractiveness of public transport for youth, and improving rail infrastructures for... read more
Topic: Demographic change, Transport
Exactly half a year before the project lifetime terminates, partners of ChemMultimodal met in Ústí nad Labem (CZ) on 28 and 29 November 2018. Important topics of the discussion included the documentation of the developed tools to promote multimodal transport and the elaboration of action plans aiming at mainstreaming achievements in the... read more
Topic: Transport
Partners of the RUMOBIL project met on 18 and 19 October 2018 in České Budějovice for their last workshop before the project’s final event, which is scheduled to take place on 11 April 2019 in Warsaw. The workshop focused on the exchange about completed pilot actions and efforts to ensure the durability of the project activities. In... read more
Topic: Demographic change, Transport
Short before the conclusion of the ChemMultimodal project's pilot phase the partnership met on 12 & 13 September 2018 in Linz (AT) to assess the preliminary results: 59 businesses have participated in the pilot phase. Together with the project partners, 45 transport routes have been identified where a potential of multimodal transport is... read more
Topic: Transport, Urban and rural development
In the course of the SubNodes project meeting in Poznan from 22-23 August 2018 the partners and experts visited the City of Wagrowiec (25.000 inhabitants). This town was selected as location for the pilot action in the region Great Poland. Mayor Krzysztof Poszwa guided the participants through the newly reconstructed railway station, which shall... read more
Topic: Transport
The pilot phase of the ChemMultimodal project has sparked first successes: In more than half of the regions addressed by the project, tests to transport chemical goods, that until now were delivered only by road, have been accomplished using multimodal solutions including rail. The efficiency of the found new transport solutions are going to be... read more
Topic: Transport
A meeting among work package leaders of the RUMOBIL project on 14 June 2018 in Genoa addressed the methodology to assess the different pilot measures of the partner regions. Experimenting with innovative ICT eight different approaches to improve the accessibility of rural areas are tested by the partnership. Compared to the previous year,... read more
Topic: Demographic change, Transport
On 29 May 2018 the third workshop took place within the pilot phase of the ChemMultimodal project in Leuna (DE). During the pilot phase project partners collaborate with chemical companies and logistics service providers to increase the modal split of the rail transport of chemical goods and products. Speakers included representatives of DB Netz... read more
Topic: Transport