Intermodality Promotion and Rail Renaissance in Adriatic – Ionian Region PLUS

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Adriatic - Ionian

Date of latest update: 2023-06-28

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Description (EN):

Inter-Connect PLUS will tap into Inter-Connect project legacy and efficiently embed and tackle 'newcomers' (risks mitigation, challenges confronting & also opportunities - arising from the European Green Deal and other initiatives on the programming period 2021-2027 - seizing) in the next day of passengers' transportation in ADRION Region. COVID-19 pandemic outbreak was undoubtedly a shock event that, from March 2020, has much influenced our daily lives, not leaving aside our transportation habits. A large-scale experiment took place during the ‘hard’ months of March-May 2020, continuing up to the present with variations. Managing travel demand while respecting new protocols seems to be an unlocking tool for sustainable and well-connected areas since ‘back to normality’ carries risks; private cars are there after lockdowns returning or even, in some cases worsening, congestion and pollution levels. Inter-Connect PLUS comes exactly at this crucial moment, the moment of transformation for ADRION Region’s connectivity starting from the intra areas mobility and going up to transnational links. It builds on Inter-Connect first generation results and brings them one step ahead by adding the knowledge and experience gained from the pandemic – it revitalizes Inter-Connect laboratories (Igoumenitsa – Region of Epirus GR, Bologna – Region Emilia Romagna IT, Trieste – Friuli Venezia Region IT, Ljubljana – SL, Zagreb – HR, Durres - AL) focusing on incorporating the new norms (COVID-19 related policies and practices resulting) into Inter-Connect Roadmap (project strategy upgrade), revising pilots (new pilot actions) and guaranteeing the intense targeted communication of the results to national/regional/local stakeholders and citizens (updated communication strategy, Inter-Connect network mobilization, ADRION clusters interface, a sequel of interlinked public events). Joint reflection (during capacity building activities, via Inter-Connect toolkit update and Roadmap promotion) on intermodal public and active transport based passengers’ mobility is estimated to trigger investment in real long lasting actions for strengthening area’s connectivity, cohesion and convergence with pioneer EU countries.

Achievements (EN):

Intermodal Passenger Transport after COVID-19 pandemic breakout – Topic Guide: In order to find out the impact of COVID-19 pandemic in passengers’ mobility, Inter-Connect PLUS partners reviewed the situation in ADRION countries and Inter-Connect PLUS cases while online surveys to citizens and transport and tourism stakeholders were conducted for adding real users wisdom in the final guide for the next day of mobility. Good practices, policy initiatives and pop-up measures were: • reviewed in a three-phases (Phase A February 2020 – June 2020: Complete Lockdown, Phase B July 2020 – October 2020: Release of measures, Phase C November 2020 – March 2022: Light lockdown /on-off measures) and • done according to the 7As framework (Awareness, Avoidance, Act and Shift, Anticipation of new technologies, Actor involvement, Acceleration, and Adaptation of behavior). The above methodology concluded in a Roadmap for the short-term horizon (up to 2025) with measures (decalogue) to support sustainable and active mobility boost. Inter-Connect PLUS recommendations on integrated mobility promotion in the ADRION region: In the framework of the Inter-Connect PLUS project, ITL in collaboration with the others project’s partners update the Inter-Connect works related to the promotion of the integrated mobility in the ADRION Region. This new work started from the main changes occurred in the last two years: the Covid-19 emergency and new EU rules on sustainable mobility and TEN-T networks development. For this reason the study focused on two main aspects: 1) Make an update with the project’s partners in order to understand how the InterConnect case studies evolved in these difficult years; 2) Analyzing more in deep the Proposal for the amendment of Reg. (EU) 1315/2013 [2021/0420(COD)] related to the EU TEN-T Network. All these analyses were summarized on a dedicated report. All these analysis confirm and strengthen the 25 recommendations identified as part of the Inter-Connect Project, around the strategy + value, network + space, governance + time, finance + funding, and research + data areas aimed to promote of interconnectivity for passenger services between local, regional and national transport flows and international/transnational long-distance traffic, between and across transport and urban nodes located along the Core Network Corridors, with a focus on intermodality between public transport services (particularly by railway) and maritime transport. Inter-Connect PLUS Case studies updates: The current state of transport and mobility in Croatia has been analysed in a dedicated study performed by project partner HZPP, which also shed light on the impact of COVID-19 in Croatia, as the number of passengers saw a drastic decline in all means of public transport, while the use of private transport increased. A specific survey investigated the use of public and private transport modes both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, obtaining roughly 900 responses, which underlined once again a big decrease in the use of tram and train in favour of private cars. Moreover, when asked which factors influenced the transport choice, the travel time, the service frequency, the freedom of movement and the cost were listed as the most decisive ones. Safety during the pandemic also had a relevant impact, as bicycles and cars were the safest modes with regard to the risk of contracting covid-19. In this purpose, users demanded a higher level of vehicles sanitization, as well as the reduction of available seats in order to be able to keep a distance from other passengers. Keeping in mind all results obtained during this analysis, the strategic goals to enhance public transport services request a higher level of coordination among different modes of transport and operators, as well as a better customization of services, the provision of ICT tools and digital booking system as well as a better promotion of new and existing services and solutions. Another analysis with observation of COVID-19 effects on public transport has been performed in Slovenia by project partner RRALUR. In this sense, measures for the development of public transport and intermodality were analysed on the pilot corridor Ljubljana airport-Ljubljana-Koper. As in the case of Croatia, the aim of the study developed in the framework of the project was to analyse the state of the art of the transport sector in Slovenia and the impact of COVID-19 on public services’ usage. The study also saw the cooperation of local and regional stakeholders, who offered their own input and point of view on how to strengthen public transport and behavioural change among citizens and tourists. Once again, data reported a relevant drop in the presences of users on public transport, with a 81% reduction of passengers during the first lockdown of 2020. The same applies to cruise ships arriving to port of Koper, which was greatly affected during the pandemic by the low number of passengers. Nonetheless, the number of passengers is now on track to reach the same numbers of 2019. Looking at the main challenges to increase the use of public transport services, some main factors are represented by the travel speed, the frequency of travels (shortening the intervals between bus departures from initial stops) and the modernization of the fleet.

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Transport and mobility Improving transport connections

Specific Objective: Enhance capacity for integrated transport and mobility services and multimodality in the Adriatic-Ionian area

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 (7)

Lead Partner: ΔΗΜΟΣ ΗΓΟΥΜΕΝΙΤΣΑΣ

Department: Department of European Programmes

Address: SOULIOU 3, 46100 IGOUMENITSA, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: https://igoumenitsa.gr/el/

Total budget: EUR 15 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 12 750.00

Central European Initiative – Executive Secretariat

Name: Central European Initiative – Executive Secretariat

Department: Office for European Projects

Address: via Genova 9, 34121 Trieste, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.cei.int/

Total budget: EUR 28 250.00

ERDF budget: EUR 24 012.50

HŽ PUTNIČKI PRIJEVOZ d.o.o.

Name: HŽ PUTNIČKI PRIJEVOZ d.o.o.

Department: -

Address: Strojarska cesta 11, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hzpp.hr/

Total budget: EUR 28 100.00

ERDF budget: EUR 23 885.00

Regionalna razvojna agencija Ljubljanske urbane regije

Name: Regionalna razvojna agencija Ljubljanske urbane regije

Department: -

Address: Tehnološki park 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rralur.si/sl

Total budget: EUR 27 400.00

ERDF budget: EUR 23 290.00

Ministria e lnfrastruktures dhe Energjise

Name: Ministria e lnfrastruktures dhe Energjise

Department: -

Address: Bulevard “Deshmoret eKombit” -, 1001 Tirana, Albania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.infrastruktura.gov.al/

Total budget: EUR 17 550.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 14 917.50

ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΕΡΕΥΝΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΕΧΝΟΛΟΓΙΚΗΣ ΑΝΑΠΤΥΞΗΣ / ΕΚΕΤΑ

Name: ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΕΡΕΥΝΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΕΧΝΟΛΟΓΙΚΗΣ ΑΝΑΠΤΥΞΗΣ / ΕΚΕΤΑ

Department: Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT), Sector B: Smart sustainable Mobility - Freight Transport - Networks

Address: 6th km Charilaou – Thermi Road -, 57001 Thermi - Thessaloniki, Greece

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://www.imet.gr/

Total budget: EUR 28 950.00

ERDF budget: EUR 24 607.50

Fondazione Istituto sui Trasporti e la Logistica

Name: Fondazione Istituto sui Trasporti e la Logistica

Department: -

Address: Viale Aldo Moro 38, 40127 Bologna, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.fondazioneitl.org/

Total budget: EUR 28 150.00

ERDF budget: EUR 23 927.50

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Central European Initiative – Executive Secretariat

Intermodality Promotion and Rail Renaissance in Adriatic – Ionian Region PLUS

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HŽ Passenger Transport Limited Liability Company

Intermodality Promotion and Rail Renaissance in Adriatic – Ionian Region PLUS

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Regionalna razvojna agencija Ljubljanske urbane regije

Intermodality Promotion and Rail Renaissance in Adriatic – Ionian Region PLUS

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Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy

Intermodality Promotion and Rail Renaissance in Adriatic – Ionian Region PLUS

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Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)

Intermodality Promotion and Rail Renaissance in Adriatic – Ionian Region PLUS

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Fondazione Istituto sui Trasporti e la Logistica (ITL)

Intermodality Promotion and Rail Renaissance in Adriatic – Ionian Region PLUS

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MUNICIPALITY OF IGOUMENITSA

Intermodality Promotion and Rail Renaissance in Adriatic – Ionian Region PLUS

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Project name (EN): Intermodality Promotion and Rail Renaissance in Adriatic – Ionian Region PLUS

Project acronym: Inter-Connect PLUS

Project start date: 2022-01-01

Project end date: 2022-06-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 173 400.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 147 390.00

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 132 472.50.
IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, EUR 14 917.50.

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Adriatic - Ionian

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

2023-06-25

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

87 / 87 (100%)

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

717 / 717 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.adrioninterreg.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-12-03, 2022-12-10 and 2024-01-30.

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