<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-07-08T08:44:08Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/79568ED0-DE91-40D8-8B4A-1BE9DDEE2245" ns1:id="79568ED0-DE91-40D8-8B4A-1BE9DDEE2245"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/F1C4F6F9-8C02-42D9-A714-D6161F49FB60" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/13C979ED-CCCE-4C21-9953-307B6EC53D42" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/13C979ED-CCCE-4C21-9953-307B6EC53D42" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2025-12-31T00:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/8D13C28D-DD8D-415A-93D1-1988A24BF32E" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2022-08-31T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">10038125</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>Climate resilient and environmentally sustainable transport infrastructure, with a focus on inland waterways</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>EU-Funded</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Horizon Europe Guarantee</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>It is the key objective of the project CRISTAL (36 months) to increase the share of freight transport on inland water transport (IWT) by a minimum of 20% and to demonstrate on its three pilot sites (Italy, Poland and France) strategies to improve reliability by 80%. CRISTAL project will assure IWT capacity at 50% even during extreme weather events. Towards that CRISTAL will co-create, test and implement integrated, cooperative and innovative solutions in its three pilot partners’ areas identified in Italy, France and Poland. The project will include the aspects of technological innovation/development and digitalization; further advancement towards the Physical Internet, governance solution and business models, will be proposed while targeting sustainability and infrastructure resilience requirements.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>