{"id":2789,"date":"2023-09-08T12:07:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T10:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tirservicesrl.it\/eu-invests-6-2-billion-euros-in-more-efficient-sustainable-and-smarter-transport-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T12:07:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T10:07:24","slug":"eu-invests-6-2-billion-euros-in-more-efficient-sustainable-and-smarter-transport-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tirservicesrl.it\/en\/eu-invests-6-2-billion-euros-in-more-efficient-sustainable-and-smarter-transport-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"EU invests 6.2 billion euros in more efficient, sustainable and smarter transport infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bt_rc_container\"><div class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p data-sourcepos=\"3:1-3:325\">The European Commission today announced the approval of 107 transport infrastructure projects that will receive more than 6 billion euros in EU grants from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). The investments aim to create a more efficient, sustainable and intelligent transport network throughout the EU.<\/p>\n<p data-sourcepos=\"5:1-5:137\"><strong>More than 80 percent of the funding will support projects that improve rail<\/strong>, road and maritime <strong>infrastructure<\/strong>. These include:<\/p>\n<ul data-sourcepos=\"7:1-13:0\">\n<li data-sourcepos=\"7:1-7:137\">The construction of the Brenner Base Tunnel, which will connect Italy and Austria and reduce travel time between the two countries.<\/li>\n<li data-sourcepos=\"8:1-8:118\">The construction of Rail Baltica, a railway that will connect the three Baltic states to Poland and the rest of Europe.<\/li>\n<li data-sourcepos=\"9:1-9:160\">The improvement of shore power supply for ships berthed in ports in Ireland, Greece, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Poland.<\/li>\n<li data-sourcepos=\"10:1-10:118\">The modernization of infrastructure along the cross-border Seine-Scheldt waterways between France and Belgium.<\/li>\n<li data-sourcepos=\"11:1-11:154\">The installation of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, France, Austria and Slovakia.<\/li>\n<li data-sourcepos=\"12:1-13:0\">The implementation of intelligent transportation systems and services (ITS) in several EU member states.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-sourcepos=\"14:1-14:167\">The selected projects will also help strengthen the EU-Ukraine solidarity corridors established to facilitate Ukraine&#8217;s exports and imports.<\/p>\n<p data-sourcepos=\"16:1-16:319\"><strong>&#8220;These investments are an important step toward creating a more efficient, sustainable and intelligent transport network across the EU,&#8221; said Adina V\u0103lean, European Commissioner for Transport. &#8220;They will make transport cheaper, cleaner and more convenient for EU citizens and businesses.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU is funding 107 transport infrastructure projects to make transport more convenient, cleaner and cheaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tirservicesrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tirservicesrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tirservicesrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tirservicesrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tirservicesrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tirservicesrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tirservicesrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tirservicesrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tirservicesrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tirservicesrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}