TRANSNATIONAL INTERMODAL LINKS TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY

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TRAILS comes to offer effective solutions to address the great deficits in multi-modality and railway use in freight transport across the French-Spanish border in La Jonquera (Mediterranean corridor). This generates unsustainable CO2 emissions and leads to high levels of road traffic saturation. In order to address both needs (increasing the number of links and cross-border services, as well as reducing emissions), TRAILS wishes to serve as a permanent cross-border one-stop shop to identify multi-modal solutions to the logistic needs of the economies of Catalonia, Pyrénées-Orientales, and Occitanie through a cooperation strategy between operators, shippers and transport companies on both sides of the border. The ultimate goal is to facilitate the identification of new trans-national railway freight routes, through a better supply, an increase of the number of links, and an effective support to the consolidation of multi-client, multi-product freight transport between both territories, achieving complete loads in return trips and the convergence between load requirements and the supply of multi-modal services. At the same time, the project will contribute to a greater interoperability of railway transport infrastructures, and to the rapprochement between the Catalan and the Occitan planning strategies for logistic infrastructures and multimodal support services.

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