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| CAPITAL - Collaborative cApacity Programme on Its Training-educAtion and Liaison | 10/1/2016 | | | The aim of the CAPITAL (Collaborative cApacity Programme on ITS Training-educAtion and Liaison) is to build a collaborative capacity community and deployment programme to support public and private stakeholders in the implementation of ITS (C-ITS) with training and educational resources which enable knowledge transfer about the benefits and deployment of ITS. The project will assist public and private stakeholders in developing their knowledge, skills, and abilities to build technical, business ... |
| CO-GISTICS - COoperative loGISTICS for sustainable mobility of goods | 1/1/2014 | | Funded By: ICT Policy Support Programme - Competitiveness and Innovation framework Programme (CIP) | |
| | The project aims at deploying and testing ITS for freight transport in order to define roadmaps for freight ITS in Europe.
The possible use case of the pilot may be summarized as following:
· CO2 footprint estimation and monitoring of cargo transport in urban & suburban areas
· Priority to signalized intersections & Speed advice for trucks
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| ITS Observatory - ITS Observatory | 5/1/2015 | | | ITS Observatory project aims to create an on-line integrated platform that will provide easily accessible and understandable information on Intelligent Transport Systems. The main objectives of the ITS Observatory are to bridge knowledge fragmentation across Europe, support ITS deployment by creating an intelligent software platform, create an efficient user-friendly decision-making tool which will enable fact based policy making and to create a common EU Library for ITS projects,... |
| LOGIMATIC - Tight integration of EGNSS and on-board sensors for port vehicle automation | 3/1/2016 | | | Annual volume at global container terminals will rise by a 5.6% rate during the next 5 years and reach 840 million
TEU by 2018.The usual way for ports to deal with the increasing demand of sea transport and compete against
competitors is to expand the port in the original site. There is scarcity of land available for port expansion in densely
populated urban areas where most of European ports are situated. This fact is causing that many container terminals
are coping with congestion and capa... |
| NOVELOG - New Cooperative Business Models and Guidance for Sustanable City Logistics | 6/1/2015 | | | Urban areas represent the greatest challenges for freight transport and service trips, both in terms of goods distribution and service allocation performance, and environmental impacts (air emission, traffic congestion, road safety, accidents and noise). The salient scope of the proposal is the enabling of knowledge and understanding of freight distribution and service trips by providing guidance for implementing effective and sustainable policies and measures. This guidance will support the cho... |
| RAIN-EX - Risk-Based Approach for the Protection of Land Transport Infrastructure against Extreme Rainfall | 9/1/2014 | | | Objective:
Ensure the availability of transport infrastructure with regards to natural hazards, especially extreme rainfall, through a risk-based design of the former.
Concept:
Currently, the protection of land transport infrastructure is based on deterministic views on the development fo extreme weather events in the future (HQ100, HQ1000, etc.). As the flooding events in Central and Eastern Europe in 2013 have shown, these aproaches do not address the real situation in a comprehensive ma... |
| REFORM - Integrated REgional Action Plan For Innovative, Sustainable and LOw CaRbon Mobility | 1/1/2017 | | | REFORM supports the implementation and deployment of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) as an instrument for shifting mobility towards low-carbon patterns. In the framework of the REFORM project, through regional and interregional learning exchanges, REFORM will trigger the SUMP development process and amplify the SUMP adoption rate by local cities in four European regions: Central Macedonia (Greece), Emilia-Romagna (Italy), Parkstad Limburg (the Netherlands) & Greater Manchester (Unit... |
| SIROCCO - Sustainable InterRegional cOastal & Cruise maritime tourism though COoperation and joint planning | 11/1/2016 | | | With €40.2 billion total economic impact, 5.85 million passengers and €16.6 billion direct expenditures (CLIA, 2015), the cruise sector plays a key role in the European social and economic development and especially in the Mediterranean, being the top European cruise market and amidst strong socio-economic pressures. As cruise tourism grows, the common territorial challenge is to exploit its full potential so that it (environmentally, socially and culturally) sustainably produces econo... |
| SUSTAIN - Game-Based Learning on Urban Sustainability | 10/1/2017 | | | Since sustainable development is among the grand challenges of the next decades there is the need of not only raising awareness, but acquiring a sustainability literacy, in the sense of a functional education that will provide the necessary skills and motives to cope with the challenges of and contribute to sustainable development. As a result, it is essential to provide an innovative pedagogy to students of higher education that will be the policy makers of tomorrow. In particular, their educat... |
| TRANSAID - Transition Areas for Infrastructure-Assisted Driving | 9/1/2017 | | | As the introduction of automated vehicles becomes feasible, even in urban areas, it will be necessary to investigate their impacts on traffic safety and efficiency. This is particularly true during the early stages of market introduction, where automated vehicles of all SAE levels, connected vehicles (able to communicate via V2X) and conventional vehicles will share the same roads with varying penetration rates. There will be zones and situations on the roads where high automation can be granted... |
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| Laboratory of signing materials photometric and visibility control | 6/1/2003 | | | • Photometric and visibility laboratory services that allow to evaluate the photometric and colorimetric properties of signing and marking materials and the measurement of retroreflective materials through the execution of specific controls for their certification.
• Study of the lighting conditions and of that optimizes the visibility of these materials under particular circumstances (night driving, mist etc)
Services characteristics
• Elaboration of quality certificates for vertical sig... |
| Analysis of the Yoghurt Supply Chain in Greece | 1/1/2004 | | | The Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) has undertaken a survey aiming to analyse the supply chain of yoghurt in Northern Greece and the logistical costs associated with that, with emphasis on energy and environmental impacts. This initiative is a response to the proposal by DEST / INRETS to participate in a research on supply chain and energy consumption.
In this work, we aim to assess the energy consumption of all activities performed along the supply chain including transportation, refri... |
| Management and maintenance of the three years duration integrated control system of the passenger transport of OSE | 4/1/2003 | | | D1 Management and maintenance of the system and computation of real indicators for the periods 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005
Υ1.1 Collection of the indicators elements
Υ1.2 Improvement of the software and data recording
Υ1.3 Computation of actual estimation indicators
Υ1.4 Presentation - Evaluation of results
D2 Computation of theoretical estimation indicators for the years 2006 and 2010
Υ2.1 Collection of the indicators elements for the year 2006 and 2010
Υ2.2 Computation of the ... |
| INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR THE QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF THE OASA PASSENGER SERVICES | 6/9/2003 | | | The research project involves the measurement of a series of quality/performance indicators, supporting OASA in the process of monitoring and improvement of the quality of the services provided to the passengers. This goal will be achieved through the implementation of the following three stages:
Stage 1: The quantification of the quality indicators commonly accepted and measurable by all three OASA affiliates (ETHEL S.A. (thermal busses), ILPAP S.A. (trolleybuses) and ISAP S.A. (Metro Line 1))... |
| AEGEAN ISLANDS - Feasibility study for the organization of shipping links for the small Aegean islands. | 9/1/2001 | | | Some of the Aegean islands are more “isolated” in the economic, transport and social sector contrary to others. To these islands the operation of regular shipping lines under the free competition regime now in place, is not possible because it is not cost effective. Thus an operational regime that is based on some form of subsidisation and for state intervention. Thus in the near future, there will be no business interest for these islands. The aim of this project is to perform a feasibility stu... |
| ASIAMAR - Assistance in Intermodal and Maritime Transport | 11/25/2003 | | | The ASIAMAR project has been set up to strengthen the cooperation between the Asian and the Europea IT&C societies in the area of Maritime Transport, Indermodal Transport and Short Sea Shipping. The project puts forward issues related to transport policy, maritime safety and environmental protection.
ASIAMAR addresses the ASIA IT&C Programme, Component 4: Liaise with European IT&C Initiatives & Programmes. In this direction, its core objective is to enable input from the Asia IT... |
| BACKGROUNDS - IMPROVING PRODUCTIVE CLUSTERS ACCESSIBILITY TO GLOBAL MARKET | 6/1/2009 | | | The main objective of the BACKGROUNDS project, “Improving Productive Clusters Accessibility to Global Market”, is to develop a government model that involves ports and port infrastructures in the Mediterranean, as well as to promote better integration of the poles with their own territories and with the most relevant production clusters. The aim is to integrate local peculiarities within the framework of the global market.
BACKGRONDS is a European project, part of the Med Program, c... |
| CAST - Planning and organisation of a road safety campaign - CAST Project | 2/19/2008 | | Funded By: University of Thessaly | |
| | HIT supported the University of Thessaly via its experience in road safety campaigns in the implementation of a new campaign with the title Take a sleep, but not on the steering wheel.
The message was concering driving under hypovigilance and was broadcasted in a panellenic scale.... |
| CAST - Campaigns and Awareness – Raising Strategies in Traffic safety | 2/1/2006 | | | The CAST project aims at meeting the European Commission (EC) needs for enhancing traffic safety by means of effective road safety campaigns. CAST developed an evaluation tool and a manual for road safety mass media campaigns.
These tools enable the EC to design and to implement such campaigns and to evaluate their (isolated) effect on traffic accidents and other performance indicators.
The involvement of HIT/CERTH in CAST focuses on the design of the Hellenic road safety campaign, one o... |
| City-HUB - City-Hub Project | 9/1/2012 | | | City-HUB is a 30-month EU-funded project, bringing together leading experts of design and urban integration, transport operation and business, with local and regional authorities and end-users organizations, which represent the economic, demographic and territorial diversity of Europe.
The project aims at contributing to the design and operation of seamless, smart, clean and safe intermodal public transport systems, addressing, at the same time, how these interchanges should be designed in... |
| CLOSER - Connecting LOng and Short- distance networks for Efficient tRansport | 1/1/2010 | | | The European Transport Policy (ETP) proposes the concept of co- modality as an essential instrument to achieve, at the same time, a high level of mobility and of environmental protection.
But the existing transport system still remains far away from that concept. The interface between long and short- distance transport networks remains as the weak link in the transportation chain for both, passengers and freight. This situation favors the choice of uni- modal solutions, and jeopardizes the deve... |
| COMPASS4D - Cooperative Mobility Pilot on Safety and Sustainability Services for Deployment | 1/1/2013 | | Funded By: ICT Policy Support Programme - Competitiveness and Innovation framework Programme (CIP) | http://www.compass4d.eu/ |
| | The project deals with piloting three Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in an effort to improve road safety and vehicles’ energy consumption as well as reducing overall congestion in road transport networks. The examined ITS are the Forward Collision Warning (FCW), the Red Light Violation Warning (RLVW) and Energy Efficient Intersection Service (EEIS). The pilots will be implemented and evaluated in 7 European cities, namely Bordeaux in France, Copenhagen in Denmark, Eindhoven &... |
| DELTA - Concerted Coordination Action for the promotion of efficient multimodal interfaces | 1/1/2009 | | | Regions suffering from strong and seasonal variations of transport demand face growing problems, such as congestion, environmental pollution, energy loss and increased travel times.
Furthermore, multimodal interfaces linking the various means serving these regions do not exist, passenger trips are organized on the basis of empirical estimations and there is ad-hoc handling of seasonal demand.
Other available transport means will have to play a greater role, while the use of intelligent mobilit... |
| EasyTrip - Easytrip : GR-BG E-Mobility Solutions | 2/16/2012 | | | The Cross-border traffic between Greece and Bulgaria is largely increasing during the last decade, especially during holidays and weekends, mainly due to leisure trips to/from major tourist destinations in both countries but also due to daily commuters. Most of travelers use private cars for their trips because of the absence of any other alternative mode. This fact results to increased traffic, jams, delays and pollution in the cross border area and routes.
The main objective of the EAS... |
| EGNATIA - Observatory For The Spatial Impacts Of Egnatia Motorway | 10/1/2000 | | Funded By: Egnatia Odos S.A. | |
| | Aim of this research program is to produce a methodological tool in the framework of the Observatory for the Spatial Impacts of Egnatia Motorway, able to evaluate the direct and indirect impacts from the construction and operation of Egnatia Motorway in the spatial development of the country and more specifically of the Northern Greece. The program develops a system of indices which are categorized in “Road Network Operation Indices”, “Socio-economic Indices” and “Enviromental Indices” and are u... |
| ENVIROPORT - Research and Application of Intelligent Technologies for Green Port Development | 10/1/2012 | | | The ENVIROPORT project - Research and Application of Intelligent Technologies for Green Port Development is one of the 15 projects selected for funding in the context of the cooperation framework for Research and Technology between Greece and China for 2012-2014. The project will address efficiency and optimization in container terminal operational and the use of available resources taking into account the environmental aspect of those operations. It will do so by investigating the joint use and... |
| EURΝEX - European Rail Research network of Excellence | 1/1/2004 | | | The basic objectives for this World Class NoE for rail research are:
• Excellence in Rail research
• Integration of research activities in a network of mutually shared facilities, tools and
platforms
• Sustainable and trusting long lasting cooperation
• Flexibility regarding new challenges for Rail research in a shared process
•Reflecting and further developing the new culture of cooperation between Rail operators, Rail industry, Rail researchers / Rail institutes and international associa... |
| EUTRAIN - European Transport Research Area International cooperation activities | 10/1/2011 | | | In the field of Transport research, the European Union as well as other major national, federal or regional entities of “global” importance such as the U.S., Russia, Mediterranean countries, Korea, Japan, Australia, South America, India, China, and others are buffeted by common transport related problems and challenges. International Cooperation in Transport research is becoming therefore an increasing priority aiming, primarily, at creating “critical mass” in moving coll... |
| FREEMED - New mobility sceneries in the FREE trade zone in MEDiterranean basin | 6/1/2006 | | Funded By: INTERREG IIIB ARCHIMED | |
| | FREEMED is an INTERREG III B ARCHIMED project addressing issues related to the effects of the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) introduction in 2010 on transport systems and productions sectors.
The Free Trade Zone (FTZ) development in 2010 is expected to determine a significant change in the economic pattern of European Union and to enlarge significantly the economic influence of the European Union beyond its current boundaries. Within this context, the Mediterranean area, which comprise the main study ar... |
| FREILOT - Urban Freight Energy Efficiency Pilot | 4/1/2009 | | | Increasing fuel prices and effects from climate changes have brought the increase of energy efficiency to the forefront in all aspects of life.
Considering Transport, the European Commission has identified it as one of the areas where the biggest energy savings are to be made: 27% by 2020.
FREILOT pilot focuses on reducing energy consumption of goods delivery vehicles in urban areas. The specific energy consumption of urban goods transport depends on many factors; vehicle performance, driver b... |
| GIFTS - Global Intermodal Freight Transport System | 7/1/2001 | | | The overall scope of the GIFTS project is to offer under one \"roof\" and make accessible to all, it elements and applications, for the seamless door to door Transport of Freight. This will be achieved by a primarily Communications oriented infrastructure that will be put in place, and from which the full number of Freight Transport related information and data will be available to all and especially the small and medium sized companies (operators, service providers, end-users).
The \"seamle... |
| GILDANET - Global Integrated transport Logistics DAta NETwork | | | | Client/User: INTERREG III B (2000-2006) CADSES, Port of Thessaloniki, Port of Hiraklion, Port of Patras, Port of Igoumenitsa, Port of Alexandroupolis
Description
The prime aim of the GILDANET project focuses on the evolution, extension and consolidation of the GILDA/TRANSLOGNET systems, prototypes developed under the INTERREG IIC Programme as a widely accessible IT support solution for the information and document exchanges among authorities and operators of the intermodal transport. The aim... |
| GRACE - Integrating Environmental Concepts in the Asian Maritime Transport Policy | 6/7/2005 | | | The project GRACE addresses the ASIA PRO ECO Programme (Component: Policy Reinforcement) aiming to an active and comprehensive awareness building of environmental impact of maritime transport in Asia. By transferring European competences, it aims to ameliorate Asian environmental performance and to develop a common understanding and knowledge base. The latter will be a framework for maritime transport safety and environment policy formulation and training for mitigation strategies, keeping pace ... |
| HERMES - High Efficient and Reliable arrangeMEnts for CroSsmodal Transport | 1/1/2010 | | Funded By: IST (Portugal) | |
| | HERMES project will provide development and analysis of new mobility schemes and associated organisational patterns at the interface and interconnection between long distance transport networks and local/regional transport networks. Although these are conceptually simple operations, requiring only some real-time telecommunication, there are organizational and contractual difficulties in its realisation.
The first part should concentrate on identification of the key requirements of the traveller... |
| IMONODE - Efficient Integration of Cargo Transport Modes & Nodes in CADSES area | | | | The IMONODE project aims at studying the options and suggesting solutions and solid actions that will enhance the greater use of, and the accessibility to the transportation axes no V and X for freight transport with priority on rail. The emphasis is on rail because if no specific actions are taken it will continue to loose ground against road transport and this is contrary to the declared Transport policy of the EU. For the areas of CADSES countries that had a long tradition of rail supremacy o... |
| InMoSion - Science Shop for Innovative Mobility Solutions for Mobility Challenged Europeans | 1/1/2007 | | Funded By: FP6-2005-Science-and-society-20 | |
| | The overall aim of this project is to accommodate through a University based Science Shop (called InMoSion) to develop all necessary expertise and know-how for assisting communities with the deployment of an innovative transportation system to meet the mobility needs of elder and mobility challenged Europeans. The system will be a flexible, technologically advanced demand based paratransit system. The InMoSion project will be lead by the University of Thessaly in Volos, Greece and will support a... |
| KOMODA - Co-modality Towards optimised integrated chains in freight transport logistics | 1/1/2008 | | | KOMODA is a European project under the Seventh Framework Programme and funded by the European Commission.
It started on Jan 1 2008 and it involves a consortium of 10 organizations from several European Countries, 6 research institutions and 4 industrial companies
KOMODA’s objective is to produce a roadmap, with associated action plans, to nurture an integrated e-Logistics platform by and between modes of freight transport across Europe. Such a platform must comply with a series of basic requi... |
| LOGINN - Logistics Innovation Uptake | 10/1/2012 | | | LOGINN - Logistic Innovation Uptake aims at co-ordinating and supporting RTD projects in the logistics area to improve their capabilities to bridge the gap between pilot implementation and marketable solutions. To achieve this goal LOGINN will set up a collaborative platform (the Virtual Arena) to allow the main stakeholders of the logistics domain (industry, SMEs, public authorities, investors and research organizations) to work together on promoting innovative transport logistics solutions aim... |
| MARPOS - MARitime POlicy Support | 12/1/2008 | | | MARPOS is an FP7 coordination and support action that aims at assisting the Commission in the implementation of the EU Maritime Transport Policy objectives by utilising the results of past research work in the field of Maritime Transport and related expertise from the Transport sector.
It addresses the issue by consolidating and synthesizing the results of Maritime Transport research in the past two Framework Programs (FP5 and FP6) and the most recent FP7 in order to come up with a set of co... |
| METRONOME - A methodology for the evaluation of project impacts in the field of transport | 2/1/2008 | | | The METRONOME project will firstly identify the criteria to measure the effectiveness of European transport research from three different perspectives. Industrial Competitiveness, Sustainable Development and Improving Community and Public policies. Secondly, the project will develop a methodology and produce a tool, based on the identified criteria, for the evaluation of Framework Project impacts in the field of transport. The main end user for the methodology and tool will be EC, but there is a... |
| MISS - Monitor Integrated Safety System | 1/1/2005 | | | MISS aims to develop an innovative platform to dynamically sense and predict natural and infrastructure conditions, so to improve safety and efficiency of transport operations in a multi-environmental scenario.
This project wants to increase citizens and operators safety by enabling a just in time intelligent computation of an open dynamic road surveillance network and streamlining alerting tasks under the daily duty provided by clerical staff. In this way MISS will pay attention to viability... |
| Mobi-NET - Mobility Centre Network | | | | The Mobility Centres Network aims to create a European Network of know-how on sustainable mobility. The project is based on Mobility Centres with these purposes:
Approaching the public by establishing publicly accessible Info Points;
Addressing Companies (industries and services) and schools with local actions and mobility management services offered by the Info Point.
Mobi-NET works on a local and on an international level, so to ensure coordinated plannin... |
| MOWE-IT - Management of weather events in transport system | 10/1/2012 | | | The project examines some of the major issues currently affecting the operation of the European transport system. The recent natural disasters and extreme weather events have highlighted the need for a coordinated response, since the involved stakeholders have responded insufficiently to these challenges. The main objective of the project is to identify existing best practices and to develop methodologies for assisting transport operators, authorities and transport system users to mitigate the i... |
| MULTI-GATE - Multi-modal transport passenger information systems for Metropolitan - Gateways | 6/1/2006 | | Funded By: INTERREG III B ARCHIMED | |
| | MULTIGATE is an INTERREG III B ARCHIMED project in the area of Transport passenger information systems.
Main aim of the MULTI-GATE project is to investigate the impact of ICT Actions for the Passenger Transport integration of the urban environment of key travel gateways (for example, metropolitan areas), with:
a) their major adjusting international transport hubs (such as airports, ports and railways stations), on the one hand and
b) their regions/country’s remote mainland or island are... |
| OPTIMED - Design, development and test of an information system for a virtual logistics platform within the project OPTIMED | 5/26/2015 | | Funded By: Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Beirut and Mount Lebanon | |
| | The development of maritime transport and logistics sector in the Mediterranean still needs to be improved in order to ensure more efficient and sustainable trade relations between the northern and south-eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. In this context and by means of a virtual logistics platform structured around the ports of Porto Torres (Italy) and Beirut (Lebanon), the OPTIMED project aimed to promote new opportunities, facilities, tools and skills leading to the enhancement of comme... |
| PREVENT - “DEVELOP A TRAINING PROGRAMME TO IMPROVE WORK ZONE SAFETY” | 10/1/2003 | | | The objective of the project PREVENT “DEVELOP A TRAINING PROGRAMME TO IMPROVE WORK ZONE SAFETY” is to provide appropriate training to the main actors involved in work zone accidents: the workers and the drivers. To achieve this, PREVENT will develop dedicated and life-long vocational training schemes for highway repair and maintenance worker training personnel, and driving instructors. The ultimate goal of PREVENT is to increase safety around work zones and reduce the number or work zone related... |
| PROMIT - Promoting Innovative Intermodal Freight Transport | 3/1/2006 | | | PROMIT is a European Coordination Action (CA) for intermodal freight transport initiating, facilitating and supporting the coordination and cooperation of national and European initiatives, projects, promotion centres, technology providers, research institutes and user groups related to this most complex transport form. The strategic PROMIT objective is to contribute to a faster improvement and implementation of intermodal transport technologies and procedures and to help promoting intermodal lo... |
| PROOHF - PROtect Our Heritage from Fire | 5/1/2007 | | Funded By: INTERREG III, STRAND B ARCHIMED | |
| | Cultural Heritage Monuments (Monasteries, Museums, etc) in European Countries have a large number of invaluable treasures, artifacts, holy icons etc which attract many visitors and pilgrims from around the world. Local population in celebrations gathers in big numbers. Also, categories as elderly, kids, handicapped, participate, or live around them. Often monuments are located in isolated areas, sometimes inside forests, being in great fire risk with little or no means to respond. The over-all o... |
| RAIL4SEE - Rail Hub Cities for South East Europe | 5/1/2012 | | | South East Europe cities are the "first/last legs" of transnational transport chains. These chains consist of local, regional and transnational transport systems. On the one hand South East Europe (SEE) faces the need for transnational rail connections among rail hubs, especially on TEN-T networks and along the main intercity lines. On the other hand rail and in general public transport bound feeder lines need for upgrade, strengthening and better organisation. That calls for a multimodal integr... |
| REORIENT - IMPLEMENTING CHANGE IN THE EUROPEAN RAILWAY SYSTEM | 4/18/2005 | | Funded By: Institute of Transport Economics (TOI) | |
| | REORIENT is a research project funded by the 6th European Framework program, that aims to assess the process of transforming the European railways from nationally fragmented into internationally integrated rail operating systems as a consequence of the EC interoperability legislation. By so doing it will support the EU policy of balancing modal split between road and rail freight support.
The project is divided in two parts. In part A, REORIENT will select two trans-European freight corridors... |
| RESCUE - A catastrophe RESponse and reCovery transport and logistics decision sUpport systEm | | | | The ultimate objective and vision of the RESCUE is to develop an integrated Decision Support and Knowledge Management System that combines expert knowledge and technological solutions to help regions cope with disasters, in order to enable the European Regions to:
(1) effectively share experiences and practices on how to respond to disasters,
(2) develop the necessary transport and logistics tools to further complement knowledge with analytical support.
Coordinating Civil Protection actions... |
| RURAL-WINS - Roadmap for ICT Solutions for Rural Areas and Maritime Regions . | 7/1/2002 | | | This project aims to build a strategic RTD roadmap developing a Information and Communication Technologies vision which will ensure the economically and technically feasible deployment of information and communications solutions for rural areas (including also maritime regions and islands).
The project will analyse: trends in technology development of equipment needed and foreseen; deployment of services which integrate the equipment; and knowledge management development which will allow the ... |
| SEE-ITS - Intelligent Transport Systems in South East Europe | 10/1/2012 | | | SEE-ITS is a transnational project aiming to stimulate cooperation, harmonization and interoperability between isolated Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in South East Europe. SEE-ITS focuses on setting the framework for ITS deployment in the field of road transport and for interfaces with other modes of transport based on the guidelines of the European Union’s Directive (2010/40/EU) dealing with ITS deployment.
The scope of the project is to enhance the interoperable use of ITS for ... |
| SMART CM - Smart Container Chain Management | 8/1/2008 | | | SMART_CM aims to do advanced technology implementation and research in order to overhaul the complete container door-to-door transport chain so that it is more efficient, secure, market driven, and competitive.
It systematically analyses current processes and systems, produces new innovative concepts for processes and technologies, and demonstrates all these in a set of 2 world scale Demonstrators covering 4 supply chain corridors. Its view, analyses, and recommendations fall in the following f... |
| STRAIGHTSOL - Strategies and measures for smarter urban freight solutions | 9/1/2011 | | Funded By: European Commission (FP7) | |
| | STRAIGHTSOL – Strategies and measures for smarter urban freight solutions, a research project, focusing on Urban-interurban shipments, co-funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Cooperation Work Programme Sustainable Surface Transport.
The objectives of STRAIGHTSOL are threefold:
1. Develop a new impact assessment framework for measures applied to urban-interurban freight transport interfaces.
2. Support a set of innovative field demonstrations showcasing improved ... |
| TRA2012 - Supporting the Transport Research Arena 2012 conference | 1/1/2011 | | | The project will give support for organizing and promoting the Transport Research Arena 2012 in Athens. It will reinforce the scientific excellence of the conference and cement its position as the main transport research event in Europe.
The fourth Transport Research Arena (TRA) will be organized in Athens, Greece, in April 2012 and supported by five stakeholder organizations;
• the Conference of European Directors for Roads (CEDR),
• the European Commission (EC),
• the European Road Tr... |
| Traffic Prognosis - Development of traffic surveillance tool for congestion management of road networks | 6/1/2012 | | | The project aims to develop a system whereby related bodies and institutions will be able to use as a management and supervisory tool that provides management capabilities for traffic congestion, presentation of traffic indicators and optimization of traffic flows in urban road networks. Key features of the tool include the ability for homogenization and use of real-time and historical data from various sources (introduction of floating car data techniques apart from traditional traffic measurin... |
| TRANS AID - Transfer of Knowledge in Transport Infrastructure Financing | 4/26/2005 | | | TRANS-AID is a Marie Curie TOK-DEV action, the ultimate objective of which is the reinforcement of the research potential and competence of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE) and its Department of Transport Economics in particular, in the research topic “transport infrastructure financing”. The project will give the opportunity to one of the new countries recently joined the enlarged European Union, Hungary, to develop new areas of expertise and enhance the knowledge in ... |
| TRANSFORUM - “Scientific forum on transport forecast validation and | 2/15/2004 | | | For stakeholders at National and European level to be fully convinced of the favorable consequences of the Common Transport Policy and actively support it, policy developments need to be based on transparent, consistent and generally accepted information, analyses and conclusions.
Past and current research has developed tools for transport policy support and assessment, which will be further refined under FP6. However, to be accepted and applied, such tools need to be checked against factors... |
| TRANSLOGNET - TRANSportation and transport nodal points LOGistics management NETwork | 1/1/2001 | | | TRANSLOGNET project is the result of an international consortium in the corridor of Adriatic - Ionian Seas. It is expected to study and describe the existing environment in the field of multi-modal transportation in Greece and in relation to other countries in the project. It will also contribute to a more effective integration of the European Transport Networks in the corridors of Adriatic, Ionian, and Aegean Seas. It will also provide the basic information with which to develop the architectur... |
| UPTUN - Low-cost durable innovative UPgrading methods for fire safety in existing TUNnels. | 9/1/2002 | | | The safety of tunnels has been put in question after recent incidents with heavy tolls in terms of human lives, and with direct and indirect material losses running in the billions of Euros. The studies carried out in the aftermath of these incidents have revealed a large number of questions on tunnel safety that current knowledge cannot answer.
Accidents in especially existing, or new but still non-operative, tunnels may grow to life threatening fires, caused by the fact that the applied safe... |
| VIAJEO - International Demonstrations of Platform for Transport Planning and Travel Information | | | | The VIAJEO project will design, demonstrate and validate an open platform which will be able to: support the transport operations, planning and a wide range of traveller information services; deliver dynamic information independent from the language to improve their provision of transport information and traveller services through integrated traffic data collection and management; deliver a solution that enables cross-modal journey planning, dynamic route guidance, effective payment access and i... |
| WEATHER - Weather extremes: Assessment of impacts on Transport Systems and Hazards for European Regions | 11/1/2011 | | | The WEATHER project aims to at adding to the current state of knowledge on the impacts on the impacts of extreme weather events on economy and society in total and on European transport systems in particular. The project starts from the broad picture of climate scenarios and breaks them down to specific regions. Economic growth models are applied to study the impacts on economy and society and the inter-relations between transport and other sectors. The vulnerability of transport is assessed mod... |
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