On February 21, CEI representatives participated in a technical meeting within the Project on the Rail Hub Cities for South East Europe (Rail4SEE) organised and hosted by the project partner Institute for Transport Sciences in Hungary.
Rail4SEE focuses on the development of models, concepts, measures, harmonised strategies and policy actions aimed at improving rail and intermodal transport in South East Europe (SEE). This area requires complementary interventions facing the alleviation of barriers for integrating rail hubs in the local, regional, transnational and Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) systems.
The project brings together major public authorities competent for policy making in rail and public transport as well as rail operators and technical knowledge providers of SEE representing major rail hubs, i.e. Bologna, Venice, Trieste, Ljubljana, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Thessaloniki, Sofia, Zagreb, Bucharest. These centres share the need for improving their mutual transport connections in a green and seamless accessibility perspective.
During the meeting in Budapest, the CEI presented the state-of-the-art of the actions it is involved in as coordinator. The CEI is to produce a clear quantitative and qualitative picture of passenger flows in South East Europe. The studies concern the current situation of passenger demand, supply and behaviours. The mapping will focus on the rail passenger transport services. The presentation was followed by a debate among all involved partners.
The next international meeting in the framework of the Rail4SEE project is taking place in June 2013 in Thessaloniki.
For more information visit http://rail4see.eu/ or contact fortuna@cei.int
