REIF
REIF – Regional infrastructure for railway freight transport – revitalised
Although substantial investments
into the TEN-T railway network were realized over the past decades all across
Central Europe (CE) there still is the EU-wide trend that rail freight
transport dramatically lost market shares, especially in the new member states.
This is caused by the fact that in many regions the industries with very big
flow of goods (e.g. wood, paper, metal, chemicals etc.) or even entire industrial
parks find themselves nowadays often disconnected from the rail network. REIF
will reverse the negative trend of reduced freight transport and services in
CE-member states by development of coordinated strategies, concepts and
management tools which contribute to improve the multimodality of
environmentally-friendly freight transport (e.g. rail, river or sea transport).
REIF addresses the need to
optimize individual regional transport modes and their combination in
multi-modal freight transport chains, with the ultimate goal of changing
transport patterns by providing efficient, coordinated services linking all
actors of the transport and infrastructure chain.
Multi-modal platforms will be
promoted and developed as a potential for consolidating and optimising freight
flows and overcoming regional disparities in multi-modal accessibility. This
will enhance the efficiency, reliability and quality of greener freight
transport modes and services. Such a coordinated approach will pave the way for
designing future infrastructure in a sustainable manner and a more effective
transportation of goods to and across central European regions.
The REIF approach aims to improve
regional freight transport (RFT) systems and services focusing on the
accessibility of TEN-T corridor hinterlands to national and transnational
transport networks to contribute to take freight off the road and shift it to
greener and safer means of transportation.
The main objective of REIF is the
promotion of regional rail freight transport as feeder infrastructure
supporting rail freight transport along large transport corridors (TEN) in
Central Europe by strengthening the political focus on regional rail freight
infrastructure and establishment or regional stakeholder cooperation. By doing
this, REIF aims at removing regional bottlenecks and upgrading its
infrastructure. REIF plans to pave the way for designing and implementing
future freight transport infrastructure by strengthening capacities in
multimodal logistics management.
REIF contributes to CE specific
objective 4.2 by supporting multilevel and transnational cooperation between
regional stakeholders in sustaining and developing regional freight transport
infrastructure and the mainstreaming of strategies developed into regional plans
and concepts.
Project specific objectives are:
1) Improving planning and coordination processes for the upgrade of existing or
development of new infrastructure and services for rail transport, 2)
Strengthening political focus on regional rail infrastructure for freight
transport and 3) Interregional integration of railway networks across borders
for better linking-up freight flows off the main corridors.
Besides contributing to the
overall objectives of the CE programme and the EU 2020 strategy (reduction of
the carbon footprint by strengthening collective transport), REIF will actively
support the goals of the EU White Paper on Transport and the Directive
2010/40/EU on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).
REIF project is funded under the Interreg
CENTRAL EUROPE.
Total budget in EUR: 2.215.341,50
ERDF in EUR: 1.811.200,65
Duration in months: 36
(1/04/2019-1/04/2022)
REIF press release - Invitation to the final conference (in Croatian)
Published 04.03.2022.
REIF press release - REIF Transfer conference held (In Croatian)
Published 22.03.2022.
REIF press release - Final results of project REIF (In Croatian)
Published 01.04.2022.