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neutrality was established. Public institutions
as “architects” furthermore guarantee that besides
economic interests also environmental
aspects were considered, which is of crucial
importance for sustainable solutions.
The focus of the project laid on making the
Alpine crossing railway system more attractive,
functional, reliable and accessible to all
involved logistic market players. In this regard
intermodal transport is a sustainable alternative
to road transport and thereby it can help to
mitigate the immense negative effects of freight
traffic transiting the Alpine Arc.
The main target of TRANSITECTS was
the development of concrete products for unaccompanied
and accompanied combined
transport. (9) As road infrastructure is not able
to handle raising volumes of freight transport
and people living in alpine valleys are suffering
more and more under traffic, alternatives have
to be designed. Through new innovative, sustainable
and transnational solutions, attractiveness
of intermodal Alpine crossing transport is
fostered.
Within the project real goods flows created
the framework for the development of new
railway services. Furthermore specific market
needs, e.g. cost-effectiveness and efficiency,
were directly considered. As overall target concrete
concepts for marketable services in unaccompanied
and accompanied combined transport
are developed and ready for realization by
intermodal logistic market.
The main targets for TRANSITECTS are
directly linked to the measures stated in the
Alpine Convention. It says that sustainable
national and European transport policies are
to foster environmental friendly modes of
transport, especially through transferring the
increasing freight amounts to intermodal systems
at economically bearable costs. Therefore
these intermodal transport systems are
to be supported aiming to shift long-running
alpine-crossing transport to rail. By developing
concrete intermodal products the project
TRANSITECTS promoted this mode of transport
as highly efficient and cost-effective alternative.
3.1.2 Creating pilot train connections – methods
Within work package 4 (WP4) concrete solutions
for Unaccompanied Combined Transport
and in work package 5 (WP5) new connections
for Rolling Roads in Accompanied
Combined Transport were elaborated. Due to
almost similar concerns and requirements for
management and working, a common structure
was established by the work package leaders
“Agency for Transport and Logistics of East
Lombardy Region – A.L.O.T.” (for WP5) and
“Regional Association Donau-Iller – RVDI” (for
WP4). This structure was used within the work
frame of TRANSITECTS by the involved project
partners.
Common Working Structure for WP4 and WP5
Source: own illustration, RVDI
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