Intermodal Green Alliance - Fostering Nodes
Focus on Nodes: Transport nodes as nucleus, start and ending point, for most of the freight transport. Freight transport in nodes has to be organized in a coordinated way by taking into account different transport scales.
 
Challenges throughout the CE-area:  Terminals and ports have difficulties to contain the quickly growing freight transport volumes (and thereby channelling these volumes onto sustainable transport modes), due to capacity restraints through planning restrictions. Communication gaps between different actors and stakeholder and a lack in harmonization, especially regarding the incorporation into TEN-T networks Lack of widely known solutions on a technical level, to make transhipment and last mile transport greener.

Objectives, Outputs and approach:
Facilitating the alignment between regional interest and EC recommendations on freight transport and regional development. Build capacity and ensure the transfer of knowledge on solutions and opportunities across authorities and freight stakeholders
Improving coordination among planning authorities and freight transport stakeholders to increase multimodal and sustainable freight solutions for deployment in the CE region, by harmonizing planning methods along the demands of spatial planning, as well as intermodal terminal processes and the demands of the immediate spatial surroundings of the terminals
Demonstrating and exchanging methods, processes and technology-implementation-approaches between intermodal terminals throughout the CE region. Thereby harmonizing methods and helping terminals to adapt to the future demands of growing freight transport flows and the necessity to organize terminal processes in a environmently-friendly way.

Innovation: Highly innovative, tangible demonstrators, harmonization of planning approaches.

Transnational Value: Cooperation and exchange of new technological approaches, methods, strategies and policies.