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Since its establishment in 2008, VNL Schweiz has been actively promoting continuous advancement in the field of logistics. The network connects business and research in a collaborative effort to change the traditional, functional view of logistics and adopt new approaches to increase capability, productivity and performance through logistics innovation.

Logistics plays a vital role in determining success. Your competitiveness depends on the perfect coordination of processes between production, trading and logistics service companies. It also requires an infrastructure which is both optimally equipped and used.

VNL addresses logistics problems and drives innovation by drawing on research findings and technological expertise. When you want to optimize your company's logistics in the shortest possible time, VNL is there for you.

The specific ways in which you can benefit from VNL resources, the particular advantages you can gain from VNL membership - this you decide: through your active participation and engagement within VNL in intensive exchanges of knowledge and experience.

VNL is one of eight recognised National Thematic Networks (NTN). The NTN represent topics which are of relevance to the Swiss national economy and show high potential for innovation.

As a National Thematic Network VNL offers support where private sector initiatives can be boosted by public support measures: in your innovation activities.

The aim of DESTination RAIL is to provide solutions for a number of problems faced by EU infrastructure managers. Novel techniques for identifying, analysing and remediating critical rail infrastructure will be developed. These solutions will be implemented using a decision support tool, which allows rail infrastructure managers to make rational investment choices, based on reliable data, See Figure 1. At present Infrastructure Managers make safety critical investment decisions based on poor data and an over-reliance on visual assessment. As a consequence their estimates of risk are therefore highly questionable and large-scale failures are happening with increasingly regularity. As the European rail Infrastructure network ages, investment becomes more challenging. As a result reliability and safety are reduced, users perception of these is negative and the policy move to increased use of rail transport is unsuccessful. The objective of this project (safer, reliable and efficient rail infrastructure) will be achieved through a holistic management tool based on the FACT (Find, Analyse, Classify, Treat) principle.