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Metrocargo Intermodal Transport (MIT)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"Metrocargo is a concept of intermodal shipment based on horizontal loading and unload-ing containers and swap bodies on standard flatbed wagons under the catenary. The system being fully automated and very efficient, it is time and cost effective for the dis-tributed intermodal transport over a territory and for processing full trains in port to dry-port shuttling.The promoters constructed a full ...
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Vision for Innovative Transport (VIT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2009,

...In the next few years 8-10% of current long distance road traffic can be transferred to rail, with comparable deliv-ery time and lower costs. To finalize the design of the Metrocargo equipment vision systems need to be devel-oped to assure precise handling, verification of train composition and plant safety and security. The VIT research program will respond to such needs and give the SME partici ...
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