April 2024 – SARIL at TRA2024 in Dublin
This April, the Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2024 unfolded in Dublin, Ireland, bringing together over 4,000 participants from 50 countries to explore and advance sustainable and inclusive mobility. As a cornerstone event in the European transport calendar, TRA2024 provided a platform for discussions on the future of transport and mobility.
At TRA2024, the SARIL project showcased its innovative approaches and findings at a joint stand with its sister project, ReMuNet, within the ALICE Logistic Innovation Village. This strategic placement provided a great opportunity for both projects to highlight their contributions to sustainability and resilience in freight transport. The ALICE Logistic Innovation Village, a hub for cutting-edge projects, was buzzing with activity, facilitating exchanges that are crucial for the development and deployment of new technologies and methodologies.
Thanks to the joint stand, SARIL and ReMuNet projects were able to engage in the intensive networking and discussions, focusing on future collaborations that could further enhance the resilience and sustainability of multimodal freight networks. These discussions highlighted the complementary nature of the two projects, with SARIL focusing on the environmental impact and system robustness, and ReMuNet enhancing real-time responses to disruptions in transport corridors.
As we move forward, the insights gained from TRA2024 will undoubtedly play a crucial role in guiding the SARIL project’s strategies and implementations, ensuring a greener, more robust transport infrastructure for the future.
March 13 and 14, 2024 – Visit of Fraunhofer at Gebrüder Weiss GmbH
A delegation of Fraunhofer researchers visited the facilities of Gebrüder Weiss GmbH (GW) in Lauterach, Austria from Mach 13 to 14, 2024. The exchange with several logistics experts at GW has helped to provide a better understanding of disruption handling and supports the tool development in SARIL. The branch manager of GW Vorarlberg, Stefan Oberhauser, presented their logistics processes and GWs attempts towards a sustainable transport infrastructure.
February 15, 2024 – Survey addressing researchers is out now
Following the Stakeholder Survey (see the post below), SARIL is currently conducting a survey for fellow researchers in the fields of transport, resilience and sustainability to get their views on disruptions and the importance of the different attributes of resilience.
We will highly appreciate if you could take 10 minutes to answer the following survey https://www.netigate.se/a/s.aspx?s=1199574X419729722X15054. Forwarding this email to relevant people in your organisation is also most welcome.
January 12, 2024 – Stakeholder Survey of SARIL and ReMuNet is out now
Recent events, including floods, snowstorms, wildfires, pandemic restrictions, wars, and cyberattacks, have affected European infrastructure and transport networks. Given the growing influence of climate change and unforeseen global incidents, are you worried about the potential impact on your organisation? Have you encountered such disruptions in your daily operations, or do you believe your business is susceptible to such disruptions? How do you deal with disruptions and which technologies support you to exchange information with your partners and clients? We would like to know more about your thoughts and experiences, as these can provide invaluable results for our research. Therefore, we invite you to answer our questionnaire survey of the EU-projects ‘Sustainability And Resilience for Infrastructure and Logistics networks’ (SARIL) and ‘Resilient Multimodal freight transport Network’ (ReMuNet).
Follow this link to answer the survey https://app2.welphi.com/Pages/RedirectPage.aspx?Py8pSeNwxntre9y0udSoQ2w7mkgT0zrnq/5Q6WJC4mCawcPerYs1kvGeuUABei+d or forward this email to a relevant person in your organisation.
January 11, 2024 – ALICE webinar with SARIL and ReMuNet
ALICE announces a webinar for January 11, 2024. In this webinar, Paola Chiarini will give insights into the perspective of the European Commission and the renowned expert Prof. Alan McKinnon will talk on outlook and perspectives of resilient and green freight transport. The projects SARIL and ReMuNet will outline their strategies and demonstrate how they intend to contribute towards addressing their challenges.
For more information and registration see:
October 24 and 25, 2023 – General Assembly Meeting in Freiburg, Germany
The first in-person meeting of the project took place in Freiburg, Germany, over two days. All 15 project partner organisations were represented and 31 people joined the meeting. First, Prof. Alexander Stolz gave an introduction of Fraunhofer and specially the Ernst-Mach-Institut.
The status of all work packages and some administrative items were presented. The software that will be developed in SARIL has been presented by the tool developers to identify potential synergies. Especially, the collaboration with SARIL’s sister project ReMuNet (https://remunet-project.eu/) was discussed. Finally, the meeting was closed by a Freiburg city tour in rainy weather with some remaining brave people.
July 19, 2023 – Virtual Kick-off meeting
The kick-off meeting was held digitally on July 19, 2023.
The consortium met with the Project officer Marjolein Salens from CINEA and Paola Chiarini from DG MOVE which shared some general information on the grant. A project overview was given and the three scenarios of the project were presented, i.e. the regional in the city of Mantua in Italy, the national scenario on the Iberian Peninsula and the global/EU-wide scenario focused on the silk road.
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