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Abstract Combined Transport (CT) is one of the most sustainable and safest mode of freight transport in Europe using the advantages of road for the first and last mile and rail for the long-haul journey. The CT chain consists of a comparatively large set of actors and organisation specific rules. Operational issues like a low level of punctuality and related company-specific delay management block efficient quality management and concerted improvement across multiple stakeholders. Under the CEF programme, the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) co-funded the EDICT project to find pragmatic solutions to ease the connectivity of several existing platforms and to develop standardised master and transaction data to provide a set of interoperable platforms that facilitate the data sharing and interaction between key CT stakeholders. The core innovation is a collaborative Quality Management System (cQMS) that is conceptualised and implemented based on harmonised and improved existing company specific standards for timestamps, delay and cancellation reason codes, and master data. The project partners intend to share a common process design and use a set of interoperable software-as-a-service solutions to improve process and cost efficiency. During the two-year EDICT project lifetime, eight CT stakeholders, under the coordination of the industry association UIRR and consulting partner Consilis, jointly conceptualise, implement, and run a 5-month cQMS demonstrator pilot based on actual operational data. The project aims to facilitate the digital integration of Road-Rail Terminal Operators, CT Operators, Railway Undertakings and Infrastructure Managers to provide accurate information and ultimately to improve the overall punctuality, reporting and data analysis capabilities, and service quality to door-to-door customers (LSPs and shippers). Thereby, the project contributes to achieve the EU’s policy objectives to increase the share of rail, to push forward the greening of freight transport and contribute to the European mobility data space. The targeted project results lay the foundation for an industry ecosystem solution providing standardised electronic data interchange and sector-wide processes to improve the service quality of regular Combined Transport trains. Technically, several digital platforms are either introduced, modernised or integrated to achieve the best cost-performance ratio and become attractive for a larger group of customers. Piloting 5 regular trains on 3 different TEN-T corridors will serve to learn in practice about benefits and improvement potentials. The evaluation will be used to refine the business model and the adoption strategy to facilitate a future roll-out to become an industry standard. Consequently, not only the CTOs but also the shippers and LSPs will profit from better information transparency on the status of their goods, causes of delays and long-term improvements based on the analysis and elimination of the root causes of disruptions. Thereby, the project and its future roll-out will significantly contribute to a higher attractiveness of Combined Transport and to achieve the declared objectives of the Green Deal, Fit-for-55 and REPowerEU policy initiatives.