EU-India Research and Innovation Partnership for Efficient and Sustainable Freight Transportation (REINVEST)

Creating more efficient, environmentally friendly, financially, and socially sustainable collaboration in freight transportation between the EU and India.

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Funded by European Commission EuropeAid programme, the REINVEST project aims to foster collaboration between EU and India in the field of freight transportation, working together to make it more efficient, more environmental friendly and financially and socially sustainable.

Together with five partners, the University of Sheffield is tasked with the project’s implementation.

Objectives include but are not limited to analysing existing freight transport systems in both countries to identify best practices, develop a knowledge framework and a sustainable freight transportation toolkit to assist decision-makers; and increase knowledge sharing through the organisations of seminars and workshops.

Staff involved

The project also involves partners from Loughborough University, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Karagpur, University of Padua and SEERC.

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