Brussels, 16/12/2013 (Agence Europe) - The Shift2Rail public-private partnership has now been set up and will have a budget of almost €1 billion to support research and innovation in the rail transport sector until the end of the decade.
On Monday 16 December, European Commissioner for Transport Siim Kallas announced that the funding would be three times as much as that provided under the programming period currently coming to an end. He explained that this initiative would be “a major...