Smart Tunnel
Overview
Background & policy context:
The Italian port cities are characterized by high levels of air pollution from ships in dock and determined by the traffic congestion for the media that the output from the port transiting the urban road network. The topic of logistics in port areas Italian is a central issue for the sustainable development of coastal urban areas.
Objectives:
The objective of the SMART TUNNEL project was the development of technologies for the control and rationalisation of mercantile and passenger ship traffic in port areas, the movement and management of containers and the movement and management of auto-vessels.
To this aim, the project concentrated on creating a modular technological platform of support to port logistical branches and of road transport of goods based on the integration of IT technologies and innovative communication systems.
Methodology:
The project focused on developing and experimenting with forms of the logistical chain in global maritime transport, maximising the security and efficiency of port-retroport-inland terminal corridors, to encourage processes of port regionalisation and to increase the competitiveness of the regional intermodal system. In the field of urban mobility it focused on more integration of the logistical chain in the urban transport of goods, by making operational models available for the network design of land-side transport activities (inter-modal and co-modal transport), application of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) tools for the management of flow of goods and vehicular fleets (optimisation of loads), as well as for the planning of routes (routing).
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