Project
APRICOT - Advanced pilot tri-modal transport chains for the corridors West to South/South-East Europe for combined transport
Funding origin:
European
STRIA Roadmaps:
Network and traffic management systems (NTM)
Transport mode:
Multimodal
Transport sectors:
Freight transport
Duration:
Start date: 01/01/1998,
End date: 01/10/1999
Status: Finished
Funding details:
Overview
Background & policy context:
Combined rail/road transport is currently struggling with high environmental costs along the main traffic corridors from central to southern and south-eastern Europe. The goal is to lower the burden of environmental impacts on the most sensitive Alpine regions along the primary transport routes. The integration of a third mode, i.e. waterborne transport, utilising existing waterway infrastructure such as the rivers Rhine and Danube could help. But this will require co-ordinated efforts to support interoperability and intermodality with dedicated freight terminals.
Objectives:
The main objectives of APRICOT have been:
- to integrate inland waterway systems into optimised door-to-door logistic chains - outside the established catchment area of the river Rhine - by linking with existing rail networks and local road-based distribution services;
- to link south and south-east European destinations and origins to major west European shipping nodes;
- to identify the required database and establish a requirements profile for integrated transport chains;
- to structure advanced tri-modal transport chains for the corridors of interest, from a technical and organisational point of view;
- to prove the cost effectiveness and efficiency of advanced tri-modal transport chains;
- to evaluate the economic and ecological impacts and formulate recommendations for future implementation.
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