Car transport represents 80% of land transport in EU 28 and is expected to grow, causing accidents, congestion and pollution. Fighting against this problems calls for an immediate improvement of transport services and changes in behaviors from different perspectives: users and transport operators. For this reason 10 institutions coming from Italy and Croatia joined ICARUS, an EU funded project to improve passenger intermodal transport connections and ease coast hinterland sustainable accessibility to promote car-independent lifestyles. The project was officially launched with the kick off meeting on 27-28 March 2019 in Venice, where partners started analyzing the current state of the art with the aim of identifying gaps and needs of the territories and involving authorities and transport operators in testing new or extended services to improve multimodal connections in the area.
ICARUS (Intermodal Connections in Adriatic- Ionian Region to Upgrowth Seamless solutions for passenger) Project is funded under the Interreg V-A Italy-Croatia CBC Programme (http://www.italy-croatia.eu/) and it promotes a strategy for intermodal connections in Adriatic Ionian Region. It aims to activate behavioral change in mobility by using the Mobility as a Service, a concept which moves passenger needs from the transport means to the mobility service. More specifically, 8 pilot projects and a case study will be implemented focusing on timetables harmonization, car/bike sharing within transport nodes, ICT solutions for seamless flow of information, integrated intelligent multimodal payment systems, dynamic travel planning and cross-border intermodal services. These activities will be tested in the regions of Emilia-Romagna, Abruzzo, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Primorsko-Goranska, Istarska, Sibensko-Kninska and Splitsko-Dalmatinska.