ScanRail: Rail Transport Made Simple

Discover ScanRail, the new TranspoNext tool that finally brings clarity to freight rail services between Italy and Croatia. By collecting and standardizing rail data that is normally fragmented or hard to access, ScanRail gives logistics operators a single, easy‑to‑use portal to compare routes, schedules, emissions, and indicative rates.

A faster, smarter way to plan multimodal transport — rail is just a click away.

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What You Can Do on ScanRail

With ScanRail you can instantly find, compare, and evaluate freight rail services between Italy and Croatia. The platform gives you clear, standardized data on schedules, transit times, distances, emissions, and estimated rates — all in one place.

Choose a route, explore available rail options, and rank them by the KPIs that matter most.

A faster, smarter way to plan multimodal transport — rail made easy.

Common Methodology

The ScanRail module is built on a shared Italy-Croatia methodology that ensures rail service information is collected, structured, and presented in a unified way. The approach follows three coordinated steps:

1. Defining What Data Matters — The project identifies all relevant railway connections and the key attributes needed to describe them — such as origin, destination, transit time, distance, emissions, schedules, and estimated rates. This creates a consistent, cross‑border data framework.
2. Collecting Data Using a Common Template — Information is gathered in both countries through interviews, public sources, freight villages, ports, and railway operators. A standardized template ensures all data — whether public or private — is captured in the same structure, despite the fragmented nature of rail information.
3. Consolidating and Harmonizing the Dataset — All collected data is analyzed and merged into a single, unified database. This consolidated dataset feeds the ScanRail platform, enabling operators to search, compare, and evaluate cross‑border freight rail services in a clear and standardized way.

Key Results at a Glance

ScanRail reveals a clear picture of rail opportunities across the Italy-Croatia corridor: over 55 direct and 90 indirect rail connections link major Italian ports and freight villages with the wider network, giving operators multiple multimodal options. While direct Italy-Croatia land‑based rail links remain limited, the project successfully consolidates scattered data into a single, structured database, now powering an intuitive digital tool that makes rail planning faster, clearer, and more accessible.