TERMINET - Towards a New Generation of Networks and Terminals for Multimodal Freight Transport
Overview
Background & policy context:
Intermodal transport is expected to help tackle increasing pollution and traffic congestion in road transport. However, national and European initiatives to foster a modal shift away from road transport and to promote intermodality have substantially failed until now. The actors involved are still dissatisfied with the presence of numerous administrative and institutional barriers, and with the quality of operations and transhipment processes. This situation calls for new, perhaps more complex bundling concepts and extended transhipment schemes that may also demand advanced designs of intermodal terminals.
Objectives:
TERMINET aimed to identify promising and innovative directions for bundling networks, new generation terminals and terminal nodes for combined unimodal and intermodal transport in Europe.
The main objectives of TERMINET were to:
- formulate public and private measures to support and encourage new generation operations;
- recommend terminal and terminal node concepts for particular types of nodes in identified bundling concepts, or alternatively, to specify bundling networks with node types and locations suited to certain terminal concepts, and to outline a feasible implementation strategy;
- identify in detail the probable, promising and missing regions or transport corridors and the freight markets involved.
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