The first meeting of the project “Rail Hub Cities for South East Europe” (Rail4SEE) was held in Bologna, Italy, on 26-27 July, hosted by the Province of Bologna, Lead Partner of the project. The CEI, which is one of the project partners, attended the meeting and introduced the road map for the implementation of the actions related to the work package “Passengers demand / supply and behaviours”. Moreover, the CEI gave an overview of the main transport characteristics of Trieste and Venice hubs.
The Rail4SEE project will focus on the development of models, concepts, measures, harmonised strategies and policy actions targeted to the improvement of rail and intermodal transport in South East Europe (SEE). This area requires complementary interventions facing the alleviation of barriers for rail hubs integration in the local, regional, transnational and Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) systems.
The RAIL4SEE project meets the need for improved transnational rail connectivity in SEE by IT, governance, services and organization measures. It addresses non-infrastructural interventions aimed at integrating cities into transnational transport corridors and it works on the transnational transport backbone of SEE by involving 11 rail hubs and 11 TEN-T and PAN EU corridors.
The project brings together major public authorities competent for policy making in rail and public transport, rail operators and technical knowledge providers of SEE representing major rail hubs and sharing the need for improving their mutual transport connections in a green and seamless accessibility perspective: Bologna, Venice, Trieste, Ljubljana, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Thessaloniki, Sofia, Zagreb, Bucharest.
The Rail4SEE project is funded under the South East Europe Programme for a total value of 4,826,900.00 EUR. The project officially started on 1 May 2012 and will last until 31 October 2014.
The Launching Conference will be held in October in Bologna (Italy).
For more information: birnbaum@cei.int