WP 5.5 Rail solutions N-S and E-W

Market share for rail transport in Norway is fairly high domestic but very low on international transports

Identify bottlenecks, barriers, hindrances for rail freight

Find solutions to ease these

Period 1 Month 1-6Activity Responsibility

Creating team of stakeholders Interested partners

Study of former projects and surveys ENCN

Information from actual studies and reports All partners

Input to focus areas and bottlenecks All partners

Description of possible own specific project under task 5.5 Actual partners

Develop draft detailed task plan ENCN

Comments to draft plan All partners

Detailed action plan to all partners ENCN

Period 2 Month 7-12Activity Responsibility

Description of bottlenecks and problems; e.g. laws and regulations, infrastructure capacity, flexibility of material, logistics hubs etc.

All partners

Good examples of problem solving and/or activities to improve rail freight competitiveness

All partners

National and international intentions and/or activities that might improve rail freight competitiveness

All partners

Other proposals for improvement of rail freight competitiveness All partners

Information from possible own specific project Actual partners

Draft report on problems, bottlenecks and recommendations for solutions ENCN

Comments to draft report All partners

Report on problems, bottlenecks and recommendations for solutions ENCN

Rest of project

Month Main outputs

13-18 Created public and private alliance to solve identified problems

19-24 Launched public-private actions to combat and solve identified transport obstacles and barriers

25-30 Prepared pre-feasibility study, conclusions transferred to discussion on harmonisation needs for pan-Baltic transport planning

31-36 Conclusions inserted to the regional action plan of TransBaltic. Dissemination activities and follow-up discussion with business stakeholders for full deployment of pilot demonstrations.