Date/Time
Date(s) - January 22 2025
9:00am - 10:30am
Location
This event will take place online.
In this ERCI webinar, you will learn about the revolutionary proposal made by FERRMED to manage freight trains to achieve the 30% of terrestrial goods move by train by 2030.
The registration link is: https://mobilitaet-bb.de/en/calendar/erci-webinar-how-solve-stagnant-rail-freight-share-eu
FERRMED. – a member of in-move by Railgrup – FERRMED is a non-profit multisectoral Association that was founded by the private sector in Brussels on 5 August 2004 to improve rail freight transportation and industrial competitiveness in Europe and neighboring countries.
FERRMED is promoting the implementation of common technical railway standards, the so-called “FERRMED Standards”, the improvement of the connections of Ports and Airports with their respective hinterlands, the Full FERRMED Corridors achievement (for freight, considering only the most important part of the EU Railway Core Network) and the conception of a Great Rail Freight Axis Scandinavia-Rhine-Rhone-Western Mediterranean.
Another key FERRMED objective is the optimization of the full logistics chain considering appropriate intermodality, reducing costs, increasing quality, assuring traceability and reliability, accomplishing lead times and timetables and improving management procedures in the transportation systems, in the framework of 5G and Circular Economy. In these last premises, and as result of its “Study of traffic and modal shift optimization”, published in 2024 (www.ferrmed.com) FERRMED has launched a revolutionary idea of the system, called +FIRRST, to manage freight trains in the EU, that we consider is the unique system to achieve the 30 % of terrestrial goods move by train in 2030.
The system is a combined transport system aligned with the road (as the most flexible mode), that will allow the transport of semitrailers, containers and swap bodies from/to different destinations in the three modalities of FIRRST: Point to point (PtP, as at present), Stop at intermediate terminals (Sai), and Stop at request trains (Sor, to cover urgencies).
| Agenda | 10:00 | Introduction
· ERCI – European Railway Clusters Initiative |
| 10:05 | How to solve the stagnant rail freight share in the EU: +FIRRST is the solution
· Joan Amorós, President, FERRMED |
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| 10:50 | Q&A | |
| 11:00 | Panel on Challenges to Solve the Stagnant Rail Freight Share
· ERCI – European Railway Clusters Initiative |
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| 11:20 | News from the ERCI network
· ERCI – European Railway Clusters Initiative |
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| About ERCI | This webinar is organized by the ERCI – European Railway Clusters Initiative. ERCI comprises 17 research and innovation-oriented railway technology clusters, covering 16 countries. ERCI represents about 2,500 SMEs and aims to promote innovation and the development of new business opportunities as a means to sustainably strengthen competitiveness within the European railway industry. ERCI promotes cooperation between industry and research, initiates innovation projects, organises B2B meetings and workshops. This also includes promoting visibility and networking at EU level. | |
