Green Passenger Transport in Rural Areas

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Date of latest update: 2024-09-10

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Description (EN):

G-PaTRA will promote green transport and mobility by enhancing the capacity of authorities to reduce CO2 from personal transport in remote, rural and island areas by embedding more zero emission vehicles in rural transport systems and by improving, optimising and better integrating available passenger transport resources. Rural public transport is high carbon, subsidy intensive and struggles to provide an alternative to the car. Furthermore, urban transport carbon reduction strategies are rarely transferable to rural areas. The unique territorial challenges of rural areas have received limited attention from funders. Learning is required to enhance the capacity of rural transport authorities to reduce CO2 from transport. The project will demonstrate the technical innovations required, and the institutional, operational, social innovation changes needed, and then transfer these new techniques to a wider range of North Sea Regions (NSR). By better understanding the legal, regulatory and funding regimes in partner countries, the project will also ensure that innovation is transferable between jurisdictions. The project results will be: Increasing the capacity of transport authorities to reduce CO2 from rural transport; Demonstrating that a minimum 10% CO2 reduction can be generated from innovative transport interventions in remote, rural and island areas with the same or better mobility for the residents in question.

Achievements (EN):

Accelerating Use of Zero Emission Vehicles and Vessels has been a key area of work for G-PaTRA. With the aim of enhancing the capacity of authorities to embed more zero emission vehicles and vessels in resilient transport operations in remote, rural and islands localities in the North Sea Region. One way this has been achieved is through the opportunity to explore hydrogen and hydrogen production as a part of the solution in rural areas to ensure sustainable and green long and mid-range public transport. The project and the partnership has been an important arena for sharing ideas and focusing attention on hydrogen production as a green public transport solution. Work in Scotland, Norway and the Netherlands has considered options for rail and road transport as part of the project. This work will provide a basis of moving toward future viable services. The project also focused enhancing the capacity of authorities to reduce CO2 emissions from rural transport systems through institutional, operational and social innovation. Transport sharing in Flanders demonstrated social and operational innovations whilst projects in Germany demonstrated institutional innovations to help reduce CO2 emissions in rural areas. Transport authorities in the Netherlands and Aberdeenshire will lead on pooling and a range of available transport resources showing real institutional and operational innovation. Aberdeenshire for example launched its project which provided a mix of transport to school and on-demand door to door and routed services to a small rural town and its surroundings. The service went through several adaptations as a response to both demand and the covid pandemic. The service was ultimately a success as far as users were concerned and was continued in operation by project partner Aberdeenshire Council past the demonstration period end date and then again also post G-Patra / EDRF support using the finally evolved service pattern. Groningen together with the province of Drenthe, developed a BI-Tool for their Public Transport organisation. This tool optimises the planning of demand-driven transport for all residents in the area. As well as delivery on the ground the project also aimed to capture and assess the technical, institutional, operational and social innovation from the project, and explore how the knowledge is exchanged effectively across partners and disseminated across relevant stakeholder networks and the wider European region. Urban Foresight led on capturing and reporting on this this output. The other key activity has been exploring the rural transport response to Covid. G-PaTRA did this by delivering demonstration activities to overcome institutional and operational inertia as barriers to transferability and scaling up, and to show the importance of demand led passenger transport innovation. It also focused on activities leading to understanding the COVID 'new normal' in rural transport through a transnational workshop involving the project partners and representatives of other projects with an interest in rural transport.

Website: https://northsearegion.eu/g-patra

Thematic information

Multimodal transport Transport and mobility Rural and peripheral development

Specific Objective: Stimulate the take-up and application of green transport solutions for regional freight and personal transport

Thematic Objective: (07) promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures by:

Investment Priority: (07c) developing and improving environmentally-friendly (including low-noise) and low-carbon transport systems, including inland waterways and maritime transport, ports, multimodal links and airport infrastructure, in order to promote sustainable regional and local mobility

Partners (13)

Lead Partner: Robert Gordon University

Address: School of Creative and Cultural Business, Robert Gordon University, Garthdee Road, AB10 7QE Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rgu.ac.uk/

Total budget: EUR 665 500.00

ERDF budget: EUR 332 750.00

Nasjonalt Vindenergisenter AS

Name: Nasjonalt Vindenergisenter AS

Address: Smøla Vindpark, 6570 Smøla, Norway

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.nves.no

Total budget: EUR 139 000.00

Aalborg Universitet

Name: Aalborg Universitet

Address: Fredrik Bajers Vej 5, DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.en.aau.dk/

Total budget: EUR 356 063.00

ERDF budget: EUR 178 031.00

Aberdeenshire Council

Name: Aberdeenshire Council

Address: Infrastructure Services, Woodhill House, Westburn Road, AB16 5GB Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk

Total budget: EUR 547 406.00

ERDF budget: EUR 273 703.00

Amt fur regionale Landesentwicklung Leine-Weser

Name: Amt fur regionale Landesentwicklung Leine-Weser

Address: Bahnhofsplatz 2-4, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.arl-lw.niedersachsen.de

Total budget: EUR 453 933.00

ERDF budget: EUR 226 966.00

Energikontoret Östra Götaland

Name: Energikontoret Östra Götaland

Address: Gjuterigatan 1D, SE-58273 Linköping, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.energiost.se

Provincie Drenthe

Name: Provincie Drenthe

Address: Postbus 122, NL-9400 AC Assen, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.Drenthe.nl

Total budget: EUR 465 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 232 500.00

Provincie Groningen

Name: Provincie Groningen

Address: Sint Jansstraat 4, 9712 JN Groningen, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.provinciegroningen.nl

Total budget: EUR 399 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 199 500.00

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Name: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Address: Broerstraat 5, 9712CP Groningen, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rug.nl/frw

Total budget: EUR 241 714.00

ERDF budget: EUR 120 857.00

Taxistop vzw

Name: Taxistop vzw

Address: K.M. Hendrikaplein 65B, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.taxistop.be

Total budget: EUR 346 554.00

ERDF budget: EUR 173 277.00

The Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership

Name: The Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership

Address: Second Floor (Rear Section), 6/7 Ardross Terrace, IV3 5NQ Inverness, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hitrans.org.uk

Total budget: EUR 699 874.00

ERDF budget: EUR 349 937.00

Urban Foresight Limited

Name: Urban Foresight Limited

Address: The Core, Science Central, Bath Lane, NE4 5TF Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Website: http://urbanforesight.org/

Total budget: EUR 478 178.00

ERDF budget: EUR 239 089.00

Møre og Romsdal Fylkeskommune

Name: Møre og Romsdal Fylkeskommune

Address: Fylkeshuset, 6404 Molde, Norway

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.mrfylke.no

Total budget: EUR 98 820.00

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National Wind Energy Center AS

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Robert Gordon University

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Aalborg University

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Aberdeenshire Council

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Office for Regional Development Leine and Weser Region

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Energikontoret Östra Götaland AB

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Province of Drenthe

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Province of Groningen

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Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

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Taxistop

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The Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership

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Urban Foresight Limited

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More and Romsdal County Council

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Summary

Project name (EN): Green Passenger Transport in Rural Areas

Project acronym: G-PaTRA

Project start date: 2017-06-12

Project end date: 2023-06-30

Project status: closed

Relevant precedent projects:

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 4 912 090.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 326 610.00

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-02-14

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

73 / 73 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

871 / 871 (100%)

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