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concrete activities
During the lifetime of TRANSITECTS the
project consortium organised several events,
meetings and excursions in order to foster the
targets of the work packages 4 and 5 – meaning
the development of pilot trains. Concrete
discussions with numerous stakeholders allowed
getting precise information on the Alpine
crossing transport market. In this context the
activities within the development of the two pilot
projects Ulm-Lombardy (WP4) and Landsberg-Trento
(WP5) described below, stand as
examples for the processes made for all other
pilot projects in TRANSITECTS.
After defining the basic conditions for a new
intermodal service between Baden-Württemberg/Bavaria
and Lombardy with a further
connection to Ligurian Ports in an early project
phase the necessity of on-site visits and
direct contacts to responsible persons became
apparent. North and south of the Alps the project
partners Lombardy Region, Stuttgart Region
Economic Development Corporation and
Regional Association Donau-Iller investigated
the available terminal infrastructure and had
different bilateral meetings with terminal and
intermodal operators. To foster the market
transparency in the seaport sector in the Alpine
Space, a contact journey to the Ligurian
Therefore the Southern Ports along the Ligurian
and Adriatic Coast were surveyed. The
respective ports offer a wide range of destinations.
Especially Mediterranean destinations
can be reached as well as Near and Far East
and America. Among the Ligurian Ports Genoa
and La Spezia are playing the major role. Although
the data reflects the economic crisis in
2009, the table shows very high increase rates
in container handling for the port of Savona. In
the Adriatic Sea the port of Koper is leading in
both, absolute and relative according the increase
ratio.
Ports Genoa, Savona and La Spezia was organised
in November 2010. During the journey
the participants, mainly south-German representatives
of logistic companies, research and
regional business development institutions as
well as from the Ministry of Economics Baden-
Württemberg, had the possibility to get in direct
contact with the port authorities, local transport
and terminal companies. On-site excursions
allowed a view on the handling possibilities in
the ports. In addition the project and its ideas
were disseminated in the seaport sector. After
this journey a delegation of the port authorities
from Genoa, La Spezia and Savona also
visited Baden-Württemberg in March 2011 in
order to get in direct contact with regional companies.
With a public event in Stuttgart a high
number of stakeholders could be involved into
the discussions about demands and needs for
a new intermodal connection between Baden-
Württemberg/Bavaria and Lombardy. In summer
2011 a workshop in Mortara was to clarify
concrete demands, especially regarding the
different market dimensions between maritime
and continental intermodal market. Another
workshop in Milan in November 2011 brought
together port authorities, forwarders and railway
companies. In February 2012 the participants
of a technical workshop discussed about
best routing options, best quality for a new train
and also price estimations esp. for train paths
and railway traction. The information gathered
within these workshops and public events was
directly used for the development of an intermodal
train concept connecting Baden-Württemberg/Bavaria
and Lombardy.
For the development of a new RoLa connection
between Baden-Württemberg/Bavaria and
Lombardy (WP5), a different approach was
used. Possible loading sites in south Germany
were investigated in the frame of excursions
and a concrete facility was found in Landsberg/
Lech. As the market for Accompanied Combined
Transport is split into two areas, one via
Switzerland with offers by Ralpin and the other
via Austria served by ÖKOMBI, the possible
RoLa loading site in Landsberg only allows
feasible connections via the Brenner. Therefore,
further investigations were made in direct
cooperation with ÖKOMBI which provided the
Contact Chapter 3.2
information needed for the development of the
pilot project. In 2011 numerous small multilateral
meetings with ÖKOMBI and other experts
were organised in order to get a view on technical
needs for infrastructures. An excursion
to the RoLa-Terminal Wörgl as best-practice
brought information about ideal infrastructure
and terminal management. Discussions with
railway traction companies and the owner of
the possible loading site in Landsberg gave operational
details and data for price estimations.
In September 2011 the first detailed concept
was presented in a public workshop in order to
get the feedback from the market side.
The feedback from the participants showed
that TRANSITECTS has evolved high interest.
Besides all pilot project related activities the
project kick-off and interim conferences were
also used for publicity and networking with important
stakeholders.
Martin Samain, Hannes Sichert
Regional Association Donau-Iller (Regionalverband Donau-Iller)
Schwambergerstr. 35
D-89073 Ulm
martin.samain@rvdi.de, hannes.sichert@rvdi.de
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