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TIGER DEMO AT A GLANCE

The project officially started on 1 April 2011. Project duration 30 months.
 

TIGER DEMO is the acronym of “Trans-Rail Integrated Goods European-Express Routes Demonstrators”. TIGER DEMO is the continuation of the TIGER Project.
 

The Background
 
TIGER DEMO is the continuation of TIGER and is set to take the four TIGER pilots into a full scale demonstration for subsequent market uptake commercial exploitation. TIGER  Project is a Large Scale Integrated Collaborative Project  for the development of Rail transport in competitive and co-modal freight logistics chains. TIGER has been developed by taking into consideration four basic European transport constraints:
 

• Substantial increase of freight mobility demand versus a constrained infrastructure and particularly the rail one.
• The Ports of entry into the Union, both North and South are congested due to difficulties of moving their traffic inland in an industrial way coherent with their traffic volumes.
• The environmental situation and climate changes are imposing transport solutions towards a more sustainable mobility. Modal shift is being encouraged.
• Costs and construction timings dictate that any infrastructure expansion will take at least a decade to produce its beneficial effects. It is therefore imperative that the best possible productivity is extracted from the available European infrastructures.

The Project Objective

TIGER DEMO and TIGER are two separate projects although being part of the same overall initiative.
TIGER DEMO objective is the demonstration of innovative technological and management solutions capable of optimising the containers traffic flows to/from major European ports. TIGER DEMO will define new production processes,  technological alternatives, new business models supported by management tools in order to improve the effective performances and competitiveness of the rail connections between seaports and their near and distant hinterlands.
 

The Four Demonstrators

TIGER DEMO will accompany the original TIGER Pilots into full scale demonstrators. TIGER DEMO, during the Full Scale Demonstration will manage the various services fine tuning, being their effective performances fundamental for achieving the full commercial exploitation in the market place.
The TIGER DEMO Project is constituted by the following 4 Demonstrators :

• GENOA FAST CORRIDOR.
• MARIPLAT
• INNOVATIVE PORT & HINTERLAND OPERATIONS 
• INTERMODAL NETWORK 2015. 
   

The Challenges

TIGER DEMO is planning co-modal solutions for maritime traffic flows in four different geographical locations of Europe. Such solutions take into consideration both the geographical peculiarities of each zone and their operational environment. These planned solutions are set to overcome the challenges represented by the need of finding the right balance between natural barriers, infrastructures availability, local characteristics, competitive reach, hinterland penetration, costs/services competitiveness and, last but not least,  environmental protection.