PROMIT - Promote Innovative Intermodal Freight Transport
Overview
Background & policy context:
PROMIT was a European Coordination Action (CA) for intermodal freight transport which initiated, facilitated, and supported the coordination and cooperation of national and European initiatives, projects, promotion centres, technology providers, research institutes and user groups related to this most complex transport form.
Objectives:
The main strategic objective of PROMIT was to contribute to a faster improvement and implementation of intermodal freight transport technologies and procedures, and to help to Promote Innovative Intermodal Freight Transport and modal shift by creating awareness of innovations, best practices and intermodal transport opportunities for potential users, as well as politicians and research community.
Additionally PROMIT aimed to:
- collect, compare and summarise available experiences and results, especially addressing intermodal logistics on East-West corridors;
- support the exchange of know-how, experiences and best practices;
- establish an active information and coordination platform for intermodal logistics;
- develop an overall promotion strategy and action plan for intermodal transport solutions.
Finally, PROMIT intended to strengthen the European intermodal transport industry as well as the intermodal transport oriented technology suppliers within their international market position.
Methodology:
Starting point for the PROMIT promotion strategy matrix was the structuring of information collected and processed in PROMIT towards industrial companies in a user oriented format. This should support intermodal promotion centers in doing their work, however, also provide transport users the possibility to get direct access to information on intermodal solutions.
Due to the immense size of the intermodality domain, PROMIT has chosen a matrix organisation, where the domain expertise was treated in five parallel clusters:
- Organisation and business models,
- Intermodal infrastructure and equipment,
- Information and Communication Technologies,
- Operation and services and
- Security, Safety, Legislation and Policy.
The approach followed integrated the work and the tasks from the project's work packages (vertical level) and the thematic clustering activities (horizontal level). The work packages ensured that PROMIT would collate, consolidate and disseminate already existing best practises, performance indicators and benchmarks, as well as national/European strategies, policies and promotion activities. This addressed in detail the national and European promotion structures as well as strengths, gaps and weaknesses of promotion measures that were a focus of PROMIT, including the implementation of exemplary real life cases of promotion measures in areas presently not addressed.
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