SustAccess: Sustainable Accessibility between Hinterlands and Gateways around the North Sea

Programme 2000 - 2006 North Sea Region

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

Description

Description (EN):

The central aims of the project were to improve the accessibility between rural areas/hinterlands and gateways around the North Sea and secondly to develop the integration of hinterland areas in national and international transport networks. Emphasising an increased use of more sustainable modes of transport, the project covered both goods and passenger transport. The overall aim of the project was to put the Hinterland - Gateway concept into political attention.

Achievements (EN):

The SustAccess project achieved an increased knowledge and awareness about the public transport interchanges, promotion of biking and lastly methods of user and stakeholder involvement particularly with a focus on peripheral areas. Partner activities and pilot projects included a wide variety of activities such as supporting the development of different gateway cities and their connection to their hinterland as well improving public transport and making it more accessible. As one example the ‘SustAccess’ project has established the concept of an EmsAchse transport corridor in Emsland, G. This concept was so successful that it rapidly developed from a mere transport-zone thinking into an EmsAchse development zone with mere amounts of economic impacts on overall development in the area. As a result a formal cross-sectoral and cross-authority association, ‘EmsAchse’ was established by various ‘Landkreise’ and municipalities and even private sector clients. The main task was to promote the concept of development zone thinking. In turn this development zone has had sufficient impact to secure a major (165 Mill. Euros) upgrade in the Dortmund-Ems canal, one of the backbones of the EmsAchse corridor. The way of organisation can be exemplify itself as a good practising example where it can also be easily be transferable to other regions.

Thematic information

Transport and mobility Rural and peripheral development Improving transport connections

Partners (10)

Lead Partner: VÄSTRA GÖTALANDSREGIONEN

Address: Box 1726, Regionens Hus, S-501 17 Borås, Sweden

Legal status: n/a

Southend Borough Council

Name: Southend Borough Council

Address: SS2 6ER Essex, United Kingdom

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Padborg Udviklingscenter

Name: Padborg Udviklingscenter

Address: 6200 Aabenraa, Denmark

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Emsland District (Landkreis Emsland)

Name: Emsland District (Landkreis Emsland)

Address: 49716 Meppen, Germany

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Vest-Agder Fylkeskommune

Name: Vest-Agder Fylkeskommune

Address: 4605 KRISTIANSAND, Norway

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VZW Mobiel Kortrijk

Name: VZW Mobiel Kortrijk

Address: B-8500 Kortrijk, Belgium

Legal status: n/a

Aberdeenshire Council

Name: Aberdeenshire Council

Address: AB16 5GB Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Legal status: n/a

Municipality of Sluis

Name: Municipality of Sluis

Address: 4500 AA Oostburg, Netherlands

Legal status: n/a

Essex County Council

Name: Essex County Council

Address: CM1 1QH Chelmsford, United Kingdom

Legal status: n/a

Perth and Kinross Council

Name: Perth and Kinross Council

Address: PH1 5PH Perth, United Kingdom

Legal status: n/a

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Southend Borough Council

SustAccess: Sustainable Accessibility between Hinterlands and Gateways around the North Sea

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Padborg Udviklingscenter

SustAccess: Sustainable Accessibility between Hinterlands and Gateways around the North Sea

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Emsland District (Landkreis Emsland)

SustAccess: Sustainable Accessibility between Hinterlands and Gateways around the North Sea

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Västra Götalandsregionen

SustAccess: Sustainable Accessibility between Hinterlands and Gateways around the North Sea

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Vest-Agder Fylkeskommune

SustAccess: Sustainable Accessibility between Hinterlands and Gateways around the North Sea

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VZW Mobiel Kortrijk

SustAccess: Sustainable Accessibility between Hinterlands and Gateways around the North Sea

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Aberdeenshire Council

SustAccess: Sustainable Accessibility between Hinterlands and Gateways around the North Sea

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Municipality of Sluis

SustAccess: Sustainable Accessibility between Hinterlands and Gateways around the North Sea

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Essex County Council

SustAccess: Sustainable Accessibility between Hinterlands and Gateways around the North Sea

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Perth and Kinross Council

SustAccess: Sustainable Accessibility between Hinterlands and Gateways around the North Sea

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Summary

Project name (EN): SustAccess: Sustainable Accessibility between Hinterlands and Gateways around the North Sea

Project acronym: SustAccess

Project start date: 2004-02-27

Project end date: 2007-09-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 5 932 930.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 966 466.00

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Financing programme

2000 - 2006 North Sea Region

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

2019-04-25

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

70 / 70 (100%)

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

557 / 557 (100%)

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SustAccess: Sustainable Accessibility between Hinterlands and Gateways around the North Sea

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