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Freight and Logistics Services
Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) experience the strongest growth of all types of traffic on the TERN. Indeed the expanding goods transport business and the cohesion of the European economy will sustain this growth over the coming decades. At the same time, this traffic is vulnerable to unsafe and under performing road networks and suffers from a lack of international harmonisation and co-ordination
Freight and Logistics services provide comprehensive, seamless, accurate and dynamic information about road conditions and accompany many traffic management measures to improve road network performance. Such information enables informed route choices, thus improving transport efficiency. Cross-border network management, proper monitoring, handling of dangerous and oversized goods transport and easily understandable advice to all drivers will increase traffic safety on the TERN. The provision of relevant information about national regulations and restrictions as well as designated routes and administrative handling are important issues for future “e-commerce” services for freight. The proposed services will accommodate the growing flow of HGVs on the TERN through capacity management and rerouting advice. This includes supporting the transfer of goods transport from road to other modes through integrated information services and physical transfer hubs. Co-modality can be achieved by facilitating the shift from one transport mode to another via the harmonisation of standards and the integration of the various transport modes into efficient logistics chains. EasyWay projects will enhance access to modal and intermodal exchange points for the European freight community.
The objectives of this activity are:
- to provide dedicated information services for freight transport;
- to establish appropriate freight traffic management services for all major TERN corridors; and
- to boost intermodal freight services.
Regional studies and the deployment of freight and logistics services will be performed benefiting from the experience gained in MIP I and the results of the European Study on Freight and Logistics including co-modality.
Projects/outcomes in this activity will focus on:
- Enhancing access to seamless, language independent traffic information on transit roads and information about traffic restrictions (limited heights, weights, speed, night ban, trailer ban hazardous goods) tolling facilities, parking areas, etc.;
- Provide information for informatics platforms for logistics centres interconnecting different modes /administrations /industries;
- Improvement of current services, such as parking place availability, security on rest areas along the major TERN corridors and dissemination of dedicated freight information through mobile devices (navigation systems);
- Provision of tracking services, software support for planning, approval and operation of sensitive goods cargo tracking and management on the network to enhance access to dedicated information concerning special and exceptional transits, transport routes and railway alternatives;
- Facilitate and enhancing driver compliance, especially for truck drivers;
- Developing and extending existing cross-border and long distance freight transport management;
- Revising and addressing specific needs in cross-border traffic management plans;
- Reduction of non-infrastructure bottlenecks for the freight and logistics sector by providing new services and extending current services;
- Enhancing modal shift management in freight transport from road to rail and sea by providing integrated services at specific hubs (Ports, stations, logistic nodes, freight centres etc.); and
- Closing the existing gaps in terms of ICT infrastructure on the TERN to achieve Europe-wide coverage to an appropriate level of service.
