Integrated and Sustainable Transport in Efficient Network
ISTEN aims at qualifying ADRION Ports as strategic nodes and hubs for the ADRION Region by setting up strategies, a transnational cooperation network and a joint action plan to improve hinterland intermodal connections, pushing in particular rail freight flows and last mile connection to the TEN-T Corridors. At present a lack of cooperation, sharing infrastructure (hard&soft) among relevant actors and massive road congestion problems, affecting links port-hinterland, are significant limits to efficiency. To date 74% of EU trade goes by ship and 37% of the total intra-EU exchange of goods (in tonne-km) goes through the EU’s ports (source EC, Ports: gateways of the TEN-T). 27% of freight in EU ports is handled in Mediterranean Ports and by 2030 traffic is expected to rise by 50%. It is clear that infrastructures and transport services must be updated in order to be ready to receive this volume of freight. ISTEN involves ports from Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, Albania and Montenegro as main gateways to the TEN-T and Motorway of the Sea. Main objectives of the project are to: _x000D_
1) steer priorities of involved territories by identifying integrated infrastructure planning at transnational level and consistent investment strategies; _x000D_
2) provide guidelines & criteria for defining legal, technical and operational conditions useful to establish an efficient ADRION transnational network; _x000D_
3) develop a specific innovative Toolbox to be used by relevant actors to analyse and define suitable conditions for establishing robust networks of stakeholders; _x000D_
4) define IT solutions and services for the communication and knowledge management; _x000D_
5) capacity building in planning infrastructures and identifying measures and actions to be adopted for setting-up integrated hubs; _x000D_
6) enhance the efficiency and environmental sustainability of freight logistics flows across the ADRION area._x000D_
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ISTEN final output is a strategic transnational action plan for the development of an integrated hubs network at ADRION level. Regional & National Authorities, as well as freight operators and other actors involved in the logistics chain will benefit from it, and will positively affect transport efficiency and environmental sustainability at ADRION region level. _x000D_
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ISTEN aims to:_x000D_
- analyse local bottlenecks in maritime-rail network, related to transnational corridors and ports;_x000D_
- define measures to improve rail accessibility in hinterland port context and promote modal shift to the rail transport;_x000D_
- identify guidelines to organize transnational groups of stakeholders and an ADRION network interaction.