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
A delegation made up by the Italian and Hungarian partners of RUMOBIL and their stakeholders visited Osterburg (Saxony-Anhalt) on 30 May 2018 to learn more about the citizen bus that is in operation there since three months. The delegation was welcomed by Osterburg's mayor Nico Schulze. The guests first learned more about the pilot project's... read more
Topic: Demographic change, Transport
The City of Zadar (HR) hosted the last thematic workshop of the OptiTrans project (16 – 17 May 2018) with the specific focus on „Public transport networks and flexibilisation“. Demand-responsive transport or flexible transport services is an advanced, user oriented form of public transport characterized by flexible routing and scheduling of... read more
Topic: TransportAbruzzo Region hosted the third thematic Workshop of the OptiTrans project in L’Aquila on 18-19 April 2018. Stroked by an earthquake in 2009 the restoration of the regional public transport system is in the political focus. “Use of ICT to react in realtime to fluctuating demand” and “Rural-urban linkage development approach: the role of... read more
Topic: Transport