The EIST aims to be the first detailed and well-structured national emission database from transport (road, rail, air and sea transport and also off-road activities), focusing on the best-input datasets available, the most advanced pollutant emission algorithms and the highest spatial and temporal resolutions.
The activation of the SPECTRUM rail service, by improving the competitiveness of rail freight will generate a modal shift from road to rail, which is a policy objective set the European Commission's Transport White Paper 2011 [11].
The experts in this research collectively envisage that the adoption and implementation of these innovations, by the rail industry, will help achieve modal shift from road to rail, for the transport of LDHV goods.
Among other things, they are investing around SFr30 billion in their main north-south rail routes, partly to speed up rail passenger traffic and partly to move all transit freight traffic from road to rail to stop an endless procession of noisy, polluting lorries through their valleys.
It is envisaged that the adoption of these innovations, by the rail industry, will lead to a modal shift from road to rail for the transport of LDHV goods.
Some of these measures are supposed to be put into force already in 2010 in order to obtain a gradual but constant shift from road to rail ("consensus" scenario) or a gradual growth of traffic rail ("trend" scenario).
This paper investigates a practical rail network enhancement scheme from the United Kingdom (UK) designed to achieve a shift of containers from road to rail.
In this way it is firstly ensured that the network exists to permit modal shift from road to rail and secondly highlights the parts of the network that are already used for freight transport by rail.
Similarly, it's difficult to switch from road to rail freight if government funding means trucking would be cheaper.
Some companies there have switched from road to rail movement in the last 10 days to try to minimize delays.
