The transport sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the EU. Road transport accounts for more than 70% of EU's freight transportation and causes severe environmental problems by emitting several million tons of greenhouse gases and air pollutant emissions each year into the atmosphere. Intermodal freight transports combine the advantages of road and rail transport, thereby reducing air pollution by 2/3 compared to road-only transportation. But the existing systems for purchasing and selling in the intermodal freight transport sector are non-transparent as well as too expensive and complex for SMEs.
Digitalisation, especially providing easy-to-use broker solutions of those processes will enable SMEs to increase their use of rail instead of road, leading to several socio-economic and environmental benefits, including the reduction of air pollutants such as NOx and PM.
The LIFE FIT project will contribute to the reduction of transport-related air pollution in the EU by shifting freight volumes from road to more sustainable rail transportation and by helping to decouple the environmental impacts of transport from economic growth. LIFE FIT will significantly enhance the efficiency and sustainability of EU freight transport by combining intermodal technologies with an innovative logistic broker platform allowing specifically SMEs to book end-to-end intermodal transports in Europe. The project aims to:
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