Europe must take decisive steps to simplify and modernise its rail systems to strengthen competitiveness,...

Joint position paper on DAC in Europe signed by Austrian, German and Swiss Ministers for Transport
Last week the Austrian Minister Leonore Gewessler, German Minister Volker Wissing and Swiss Minister Albert Rösti have signed the joint position paper “Die DAK kommt” (engl.: The DAC is coming!) All three ministers highlight the importance of Digital...
DB Cargo representing FP5-TRANS4M-R at Transport Research Arena 2024 in Dublin
Today, Patrick Seessle, the Flagship Project Coordinator of FP5-TRANS4M-R, presented the paper “Digital Automatic Coupling as an Enabler for Rail Freight Innovations” at the Transport Research Arena 2024 in Dublin. In this paper the DAC and its components are...
Collaboration between Europe‘s Rail projects on Multimodal Logistic topics
At Multimodal Logistics Taskforce, a conference on Tuesday 19th of March in Barcelona FP5-TRANS4M-R joined forces with the ESEP4Freight, another EU-Rail funded project on digital rail freight solutions. Felix Hildebrandt from HACON introduced the Seamless Rail Freight...
FP5-TRANS4M-R Video available on YouTube
Our project video is now available on YouTube! The video explains our motivation, our goals and our approach towards the transformation of Europe’s Rail Freight. Both our clusters Full Digital Freight Train and Seamless Freight are introduced and the main...