Project
B8 (NRP 41) - European Sea Transport and Intermodalism - Consequences for Switzerland
Funding origin:
Switzerland
STRIA Roadmaps:
Network and traffic management systems (NTM)
Transport mode:
Multimodal
Transport sectors:
Freight transport
Duration:
Start date: 01/01/1997,
End date: 01/01/2001
Status: Finished
Funding details:
Overview
Background & policy context:
The NRP 41 was launched by the Federal Council at the end of 1995 to improve the scientific basis on which Switzerland's traffic problems might be solved, taking into account the growing interconnection with Europe, ecological limits, and economic and social needs. The NRP 41 aimed to become a think-tank for sustainable transport policy. Each one of the 54 projects belongs to one of the following six modules:
- A Mobility: Socio-institutional Aspects
- B Mobility: Socio-economical Aspects
- C Environment: Tools and Models for Impact Assessments
- D Political and Economic Strategies and Prerequisites
- E Traffic Management: Potentials and Impacts
- F Technologies: Potentials and Impacts
- M Materials
- S Synthesis Projects
Objectives:
- To describe the present strategies of maritime operators and the evolution trend in the maritime transport as a consequence of the diffusion of the container technology;
- to analyse the development of the Italian ports after the port reform and to compare it with the Northern Range ports;
- to assess the container traffic from and to the European ports across the Alps;
- to determine the impact of the ongoing evolution in container sea transport on the hinterland freight traffic across the Alps and evaluate its aspects on the ecological and transportation level.
Methodology:
- Description and statistical analysis of the Italian ports' development after the 1994 port reform.
- Statistical analysis to assess the container traffic from and to the European ports across the Alps.
- Determining the impact of freight traffic across the Alps by three possible scenarios:
scenario I: persistence of the dominant position of the Northern European ports;
scenario II: the alpine mountain chain builds a natural division between the catchment areas of the ports north and south of the Alps;
scenario III: the expansion of the catchment areas of Mediterranean ports north of the Alps.
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