BRAVO, a consortium of 15 partners, has been set up to develop and demonstrate a Brenner Corridor Action Strategy in order to lay foundations for achieving a significant and sustainable increase in intermodal transport volume on this corridor. This strategy is also designed as a blueprint applicable to other pan-European freight corridors.
The research activities of the BRAVO project are composed of the following scientific and technological objectives:
- Development of a coherent corridor management scheme enabling open access and (ajouter efficient) train path allocation
- Blueprint for an interoperable rail traction scheme involving multi-current and radio-controlled locomotives
- Development of an EDP-supported quality management system- Development of an advanced customer information system generating estimated-time-of-availability information
- Scheme on extended & innovative intermodal services
- Prototype of an innovative intermodal technology to capture conventional semi-trailers for unaccompanied intermodal transport
The BRAVO project will also include 6 demonstration activities validating the research results:
- Radio-controlled pushing locomotive
- Interoperable through-rail traction scheme
- Quality management system (QMS)
- Pilot of “estimated-time-of-availability” system
- Full-scale demonstration of an innovative pocket wagon technology
- New concept for unaccompanied CT of conventional semi-trailers.