1.2 - INTERREG IIIB Alpine Space Programme

46 2.2 AlpFRail
transport
Lead partner
Betreibergesellschaft
Logistik-Kompetenz-Zentrum
Prien
Other partners
Aut. Portuale di Venezia
MINAMBIENTE
Provincia di Alessandria
Regionalverb. Donau-Iller
Regione A. FVG
Regione Veneto
Unioncamere Veneto
DV
Land Vorarlberg
DB Netz AG
BMVIT
Land Salzburg
Land Kärnten
Provincia di Brescia
Provincia di Mantova
Région Rhône-Alpes
Project website
www.alpfrail.com
Contact person
Karl Fischer
Tel +49 (0)8051 901 101
Fax +49 (0)8051 901 109
k.fischer@lkzprien.de
Duration
03.2003 – 02.2007
Total budget in EUR
3.960.000
ERDF in EUR
1.980.000
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Alpine Freight Railway
Shifting of alpine crossing freight transport from road to rail by innovative concepts.
Aim
The transalpine traffic accessibility is essential for Europe.
Catastrophes in the Alpine tunnels and traffic contrasts demonstrate
the European dimension of this problem. The rise of
road traffic within the Alpine region causes an escalation of
CO2 emissions, noise pollution and use of road infrastructure
which is not designed for the actual traffic volume. The “Alpine”
policy of traffic has abandoned the scope of single nationalities
and reached European dimensions. It is important
therefore, besides present national furtherance instruments
for combined traffic, to observe also new rudiments for traffic
displacement. New focus for the solution is “thinking in network
and systems, not in axes”.
Activities
AlpFRail - the method applied
In order to enable smooth rail freight traffic in all directions, the
old scheme of North-South axes and East-West- routes has
to be abandoned.
A look on the map clarifies: The infrastructure already exists in
networks, but the traffic is organised only in single axes.
Therefore a rethinking by politicians and railway companies
is necessary. Not only the national borders in the head of the
people have to be abandoned – all involved persons of the
project have to consider the Alpine countries as a common
European space, which can be made accessible only with the
aid of a network.
At first, all existing freight flows are being analysed. On this
basis the traffic flows will be optimised and integrated in a
network.
In order to provide the customers with all available offers with-
in the rail network a prototype of a standard information and
quality management system is under development.
Outcomes and results
Using existing capacities: Example Tauern Rail
The economic areas Bavaria and Salzburg have a good connection
to the Mediterranean ports over this route. The trains
in this project were technically optimised by the specialists of
the LKZ, 9 free tracks were found and this proved that there
are very large optimising potentials in the rail traffic. All things
considered, an immediate displacement of additional 5.000
trucks per month is possible on this route. The 2 products
“Adriazug” and “TrailerTrain” have been created by the partners
of “AlpFRail”.
Pilot relations between the economic areas Augsburg/
Ulm/Stuttgart and Lombardia/ Veneto
Actually there are no direct connections of the combined rail
traffic between these huge trade regions; Studies about the
installation of pilot relations in the framework of AlpFRail have
shown that between the existing terminals Augsburg, Ulm
and Stuttgart as well as Brescia, Mantova and Rivalta Scrivia
nearby Genova, direct trains for the sea traffic to Asia can
be operated commercially. They will be implemented in the
second phase of AlpFRail.
Overcoming of the regional orientated spatial planning
In the project AlpFRail regional concepts will be integrated in
supra-regional overall concepts. Therefore all regional political
decision makers have to gather at one table. The common
inventory of all regional plans and the identification and the
elimination of overlaps are important. Later on these supraregional
harmonised concepts have to be communicated to
the international partners.
In the Project AlpFRail conferences and workshops about this
subject already took place. For example a freight train from
Nürnberg to Mantova is planned, which will then connect two
domestic ports.