ACROSSEE – Accessibility improved at border CROSsings for the integration of South East Europe
COUNTRY
IT
region
PIEMONTE
contribution
2194768.00
budget
3025246.00
programme
South-East Europe
area
Improvement of the Accessibility
organization
CEI - Central European Initiative - Executive Secretariat
contacts
CEI - Central European Initiative - Executive Secretariat Italy 34121 Trieste Via Genova 9, cei-es@cei-es.org
program
The EC has recently published the Proposal for a Regulation on Union guidelines for the development of the trans - European transport network -COM (2011) 650/2, that defines the long term strategy for the Ten-T policy up to 2030/2050 and proposes Corridors relevant for the SEE area. By creating a multilevel formed by Transport Ministries, Regions, Universities, Chambers of Commerce, transport stakeholders and European transport association A large and coherent platform will contribute to rationalising and optimizing the existing network of South Eastern Europe with the aim to extend the Eu transport network ( core and comprehensive) to the western Balkans and develop a single transport system for SEE and forging new approach with infrastructure and transport services even in a time of austerity. The joint evaluation of the proposed extension of the comprehensive Eu network to the Western Balkans together with its implication at the internal level (on national spatial plan and on national budget perspectives) and at transnational level such as the level of the short term and long term intervention, the identification of the possible extension of the Eu core network will be clearly addressed in relation with Eu methodology and interfaced with the results of the transport model with the aim to balance the capacity of the Eu corridors with cost-effectiveness. Concrete initiatives for across the SEE will be jointly carried out in order to discourage the risk of an investment hiatus by addressing the cross border-issues and focusing on the identification of short medium term investments on bottleneck which will be considered both from a physical and administrative perspective. The first web-based ITC interface will be created for exchanging relevant information on technical and administrative aspects of rail and road border crossing points of the SEE. In this context, in order for this axis to operate successfully, the efficiency of European freight transport must be improved and the WB considered as integrated. Greater interoperability and the easing of across borders procedures are critical to the corridor' success including identifying viable intermodal connections between rail, road and sea The project will focus on the implementation of common standards across the different administrative procedure that represent together with the company discrimination?s, the real hidden cost of the non integration of the SEE area. Moreover it will Contribute to the optimisation of international borders management, that includes reducing cross-border transit time, increase regional and international trade by improving border crossings, ensuring that national trade facilitation procedures are compatible with markets and administrative procedures The project will promote institutional and stakeholders permanent cooperation in order to provide concrete actions and projects to contribute to the Danube strategy for Danube regional, the Adriatic strategy and the Black sea synergy: this platform will serve as a basis for the implementation of the One stop shop along the selected corridor. A tree-layer approach will be used in order to combine and interlink the institutional dimension with the transport model analysis and the contribution of the transport economic dimension on solving the crossborder issues which remain the core part of the project. The project will adopt a common transport model for the entire South East Area, integrated with the rest of Europe and compatible with the current EU system, adequate to be exploited also by public administrations and transport operators The core part of the project will be consecrated on Improving the cross-border mobility of the rail freight flows. Adopt concrete measures in order to cut the running time in the cross-border points and to ease up the existing bottlenecks in the SEE area
policy
The ACROSSEE Project will improve accessibility and harmonise existing infrastructures to enhance SEE networks flows and foster inter-modality and co-modality on transnational corridors. The ACROSSEE Project will contribute to the acceleration of procedures at border crossing points and the facilitation of freight flows in the concerned area. The ACROSSEE Project will contribute to freight transport costs reduction. The ACROSSEE Project promotes the realisation of a sustainable transport system with a sustainable low-carbon impact in line with the Lisbon Strategy and EU2020 policy recommendations. The ACROSSEE Project contributes to a comprising, smart, sustainable and inclusive economy by improving employment opportunities, productivity and social cohesion. The ACROSSEE Project promotes a multicultural and multilingual environment thus guaranteeing gender balance in project planning and decision making processes.
reference
http://www.acrossee.net/
activity
The project is structured in 5 Work Packages (WP) consisting of specific actions. Work package 1: Transnational project and financial management Work package 2: Communication activities Work package 3: The WP is coordinated by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport Innovation and Technology. It promotes institutional and stakeholders cooperation to contribute with its activities to the macro-regional strategies: Danube strategy, Western Balkans integration and South East Europe. By these actions partners wish to create an Institutional forum and promote effective multilevel governance to complete the implementation of the TEN-T network crossing the SEE area through the activation of interventions to foster administrative cooperation for the procedures standardization. The partners will establish an institutional multilevel platform and promote administrative cooperation in order to complete and extend the implementation of the TEN-T network and to enhance cooperation among relevant stakeholders with the aim of improving national and regional strategic plans. Work package 4: The WP is coordinated by the Central European Initiative (CEI), project lead partner. Within this WP partners will elaborate an integrated transport model completed with the inclusion of local and international flows. The WP4 foresees activities of collection of necessary, adequate and updated data associated to the demand analysis and traffic forecasting. Then, a geo-referenced model will be established, as a visualisation and analysis tool, to support the other project activities, the decision making process, as well as the web toolbox available to all interested parties (public administrations, transport operators) and to wider public. Work package 5: The WP is coordinated by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, that will elaborate an action plan for cross-border points and bottlenecks in South East Europe Area and for the facilitation of the trans-national flows. Thanks to the project a joint proposal for administrative standardisation and concrete plan for cutting transit time on EU corridors and Western Balkans comprehensive network will be elaborated. A Field survey on 30 selected rail border crossing points in the whole South East Europe Area and field survey on 35 road selected crossing sections will be conducted.
budget
3025246.00
Author
Project Logo. Project Communication Plan. Branding Image. Project website. Project brochure. Project gadgets. Presentation in external events. Cross fertilization events. Final publication. Media list. Articles. Press releases.
Make the public at large more aware about the project benefits.
Inform the public about the benefit of an enlarged Ten-t strategy to Western Balkans.