Supporting EU's Freight Transport Logistics Action Plan on Green Corridors Issues

The objectives of the SuperGreen project concerned supporting the development of sustainable transport networks by fulfilling requirements covering environmental, technical, economic, social and spatial planning aspects. This was achieved by: • Benchmarking of Green Corridors: Based on a total picture of relevant parameters (KPIs) like energy consumption and emissions, operational aspects and SCM issues, external costs (including social and spatial planning aspects), infrastructure costs and internal costs: identification of areas and candidates for improvement (i.e. bottlenecks). • “Green technologies”: Methods for improving the identified bottlenecks. Among the green technologies considered may be novel propulsion systems, alternative fuels, cargo handling technologies, new terminal technologies, cleaning technologies, heating and cooling technologies, or novel concepts of any kind relevant for the multimodal Green Corridors. • “Smarter” utilisation of ICT-flows already available in the multimodal chain may improve the identified bottlenecks and make the Green Corridors even greener. The influence of issues like e-freight, supply chain management, smarter planning (vehicle navigation technologies), scheduling and track & trace need to be considered. • Recommendations for R&D: Where the available “Green technologies” and present knowledge about “Smarter utilisation of ICT-flows” are not sufficient to improve the identified bottlenecks, recommendations for future calls for R&D proposals were be suggested. • Policy Implications: The implications of related regulatory policies on the possible solutions proposed by the project were examined, so as to provide assistance to the Commission in the formulation and harmonisation of policies on Green Corridors. • Dissemination and Awareness Raising: The project paid particular attention to dissemination and creation of awareness on its results. This involved liaison with stakeholders involved in the topics addressed by SuperGreen (infrastructure managers, transport and terminal operators, shippers, logistics operators, national and local authorities, etc.). It also included the development of a dissemination plan, promotional material, workshops and other events with stakeholder participation.