Report from MoS Seminar
Published: 2010-08-26 09:51
A report, made on the basis of the Seminar and Debate “Baltic Motorways of the Sea - Successful projects, barriers and challenges for MoS policy implementation” held by Baltic Ports Organisation (TransBaltic Task 4.1) has now been released.
See the report here.
Online Survey!
Published: 2010-07-19 13:04
Directions for the Future!
The first series of TransBaltic foresight debates concerning the Green Scenario 2030 and the Artic Scenario 2030 in the Baltic Sea Region is coming to an end!
Five fruitful sessions strategically placed throughout the region have been summarised in a report, which explores the original concepts and features a valuable input aired by the participants. As an operator in the transport and logistics area, that has been invited to or had the possibility to participate in our debates, please find the draft version here!.
In a wrap-up of this process TransBaltic would kindly ask you to take the opportunity for another contribution. Below you will find the link to a short and concise survey consisting of three questions. All answers will be taken into account in a comprehensive document that will be disseminated this autumn and set the direction for further work in the TransBaltic project.
We would be happy to receive your feedback by 31st of August.
TransBaltic thanks you for your collaboration!
The Malmö Conference Report 2010 released!
Published: 2010-06-01 10:33
The report of the “New geography of freight flows in the Baltic Sea Region” conference held in Malmö, March 2010 has now been released. Download the report and take part of what was being said during the lunch-to-lunch conference attracting 150 participants from around the Baltic Sea Region. Find the report along with each speaker’s presentation here!
Signed Green Corridor Agreement
Published: 2010-05-17 13:50
TransBaltic has together with the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise, Energy & Communications and the two other transnational projects EWTC ll and Scandria (projects also co-funded by the Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013) signed a contract for joint forces in green transport corridor activities. The green corridor agreement is a follow-up to the letter of understanding that the projects signed last year declaring their willingness to cooperate, especially concerning the green transport corridor concept. This agreement serves the purpose of deciding upon activities and stating the signing parties’ different responsibilities.
Download the Signed GC Agreement!
Participate in TransBaltic Foresight Debates
Published: 2010-04-13 10:07
TransBaltic shall consolidate visions, masterplans and planning concepts delivered by the earlier pan-Baltic initiatives into one systemic framework, from the perspective of sustainable regional development and transport gateway function of the BSR.
This means to develop:
- A concerted vision of the BSR intermodal transport system in 2030
- A development path (strategy to reach the vision)
- Alternative traffic flow scenarios
To achieve the shared character of the deliverables as above, the project intends to apply a foresight method. This implies organizing a participatory process involving stakeholders (experts and decision makers from research, industry, policy making and society).
Preliminarily, as material for discussion among the stakeholders and with the appointed consultant for the foresight process, the following scenarios for the year 2030 are proposed to be the base for the BSR-specific discussions:
- Baseline scenario – projecting the situation where all major transport infrastructure projects that are included in the medium- and long-term national investment plans of the BSR states (and optionally – China, India, Ukraine and Central Asia republics) are completed
- Arctic passage scenario/Gateway scenario including land bridges - projecting the situation when the ice-free waters of the Arctic Sea enable summer season navigation to release saturated south Baltic Sea Region road/rail network from intercontinental traffic
- Green transport scenario – projecting the situation when the EU regulations and rules of the EU neighbouring countries lay ground for developing a network of green multimodal transport corridors as a priority network in the BSR (correspondent to present TEN-T network)
The debates shall be completed in mid-May 2010 to allow for validation and upgrade of the scenarios, with possible addition of new trajectory paths, not envisaged at the beginning of the process. The set of concerted scenarios will be then transferred to task 3.2 in order to make a corridor projection of the flow volumes (see specification for forecast work in task 3.2). The updated scenario descriptions and the traffic flow analysis will create the base for some analytical studies to describe the consequences of the development alternatives. Finally, all the documentation will be generalized and inserted into the Action Plan, which will contain infrastructure, logistics and transport capacity measures addressing pan-Baltic connectivity, interoperability and intermodality problems from the sustainable regional development perspective.
For more information about the debates and registration, check the Calendar