REIF
The Port Network Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea was one of the partners of the project “REIF – Regional infrastructure for railway freight transport – revitalized” co-financed by the programme Interreg Central Europe.
Project Objective
REIF addressed Priority Axis 4 (Cooperating on transport to better connect CENTRAL EUROPE) and Specific Objective 4.2 (To improve coordination among freight transport stakeholders for increasing multimodal environmentally friendly freight solutions) and aimed at increasing the modal share of rail freight transport through mitigation measures for the regional feeder system. The project was tackling relevant challenges related to lacking connectivity at regional level.
REIF primarily acted on developing and applying tools to analyze regional potentials for rail freight transport, identifying infrastructural bottlenecks, and effective measures for either preserving vulnerable connections or even redeveloping closed tracks. Pilot actions tested novel approaches to overcome different discontinuities of the regional rail network in the participating regions.
Within REIF project the Port Network Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea carried out some pilot actions. In particular, it developed a pre-investment study for the upgrade of a part of the port railway infrastructures and an operational concept to optimize the use of existing railway infrastructures inside and outside the port to support freight trains.
Lead Partner
Thuringian Ministry for Infrastructure and Agriculture (Germany)
Partners
University of Applied Science Erfurt (Germany); Office of the Regional Government of Styria (Austria); Institute for Traffic and Transport Ljubljana (Slovenia); Port Network Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea (Italy); Intermodal Transport Cluster (Croatia); Central European Transport Corridor Limited Liability European Grouping of Territorial Co-operation (Poland); Institute for Transport and Logistics Foundation (Italy); Luka Koper, port and logistics system, public limited company (Slovenia); Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy);
Duration
from April 2019 – until March 2022
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