Project
BEACON - Building Environmental Assessment CONsensus on the Trans-European Transport Network
Funding origin:
European
STRIA Roadmaps:
Transport infrastructure (INF)
Transport mode:
Multimodal
Transport sectors:
Passenger transport
Freight transport
Duration:
Start date: 01/05/2003,
End date: 01/08/2005
Status: Finished
Funding details:
Overview
Background & policy context:
BEACON addresses the broad issue of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of transport infrastructure. BEACON directly addresses all major societal challenges that the European continent is currently facing:
- environment
- employment
- education
- working conditions
- quality of life in general.
Objectives:
- Establishing a platform for discussion that, by bringing together all categories of involved stakeholders, can lead to achieving consensus on concepts, methodologies and practice of SEA applied to transport infrastructure;
- Providing explicit opportunities to link research results to policy making;
- Ensuring that the appropriate level of dissemination of research results is reached, notably targeting policy makers and practitioners;
- Issuing methodological recommendations on SEA in the transport sector;
- Identifying and illustrating examples of best practice in transport SEA;
- Providing support to the implementation of SEA for selected sections of the TEN.
Methodology:
- Organisation of 2 Workshops, 1 Conference, and a series of technical meetings involving experts, representatives of Member States (in both the transport and environment administrations) and of the European Commission.
- Drafting, discussion and circulation of a large number of technical papers covering all aspects of SEA, providing both methodological and practical insights as well as an updated account of the State-of-the-Art across the EU.
- Production of a large number of Deliverables, which present and summarise the results of the State-of-the-Art analyses carried out by the Consortium, and incorporate the findings of the discussions staged during the Workshops, the Technical Meetings and the Final Conference.
- Establishment and continuous updating of a dedicated website on transport SEA, to serve as a unique reference in the field.
- Revision of the Transport SEA Manual issued by DG TREN in 1999, and drafting of an updated and largely revised version of the latter.
- Contribution to the scoping of selected TEN-T corridors, also to illustrate the potentialities of SEA in transport infrastructure planning.
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