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EUROPEAN
UNION
European Regional
Development Fund
Description of the 5 STRATEGIC AND TRANSVERSAL POLICIES
(transversal macro-themes)
A
B
C
D
E
Communication/Governance/Participation: make users and local stakeholders/actors aware
that the interface will serve the entire catchment area and as such can be a driving force for certain
economic activities, especially in the tertiary field (to install new or revitalize existing ones). To
conceptualize a graphic model/representation of the catchment area.
New planning and strategic tools: tools based on the new non-political boundaries of the
catchment area will be needed by the specific assets given by such hubs insertion. It will be
important to define the reference catchment area and to strengthen the coordination among
institutions, by involving, for instance, also nearby cities which become part of the catchment area,
and have the appropriate planning tools for the area. New proceedings and negotiation tools will be
needed to foster voluntary cooperation
New technologies / smart cities: how to exploit the new technologies for (1) communication,
transmission to the users of the potential of the hubs, in terms of transport connection (real time
information) and for (2) data recording and representation (recording by sensors and representation
of the phenomena triggered by the hub, i.e. affluence, people moving, users requests, …) useful for
the understanding of the hub working and users needs. In addition, how to develop integrated info
and ticketing / payment systems by different channels, being the potential of hubs increased if there
is a low barrier intermodal exchange (including the cars).
Economic tools: to investigate activities to be installed or renewed thanks to the node and
nearby: the junction can have a multiplier effect and be a “driver of innovative change”) of a whole
region. It would be important to identify the indicators that companies prefer, to localize in a
particular area and prepare the creation of a “unified package” (“one-stop-window”) of procedures,
documentation and permit remise
ENTER.HUB and European Policies
to investigate what can be the links between our project and the European policies on these topics,
especially on:
(1) how ENTER.HUB can give inputs to the new EU policies;
(2) how middle sized cities (=our partnership and the general project target) can in their turn,
benefit from these policies and from investments foreseen by these policies (a sort of closure of the
circle).
This 5th transversal theme will be more and more "open" than the other ones: it will be better
defined during the previous workshops. It also tries to answer to the need, underlined by all the
partners, to go deeper in the economic issues. Actually, these economic issues would be discussed:
firstly, at a more "local" level in the workshop D "economic tools", and then, at a European level, in
the workshop E.
In addition, it could answer the need of facing, in the project, the importance of financing railway
infrastructures and the related distribution transport system and how to implement it. This would
be important especially for cities not having a HS station or other important hub, or the
infrastructural linkages themselves. In this way, the project could be of interest for a larger number
of cities, and especially also to those belonging to new Member States.
Finally, this workshop could strongly link the project to the Managing Authorities: one more reason
for foreseeing, in occasion of this 5th thematic workshop, the transnational seminar dedicated to
the MAs
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