EMPIRIC

EMPIRIC (Enhancing Multimodal Platforms, Inland Waterways and Railways Services Integration in Central Europe) supports the start up and improvement of multimodal connections from and to North Adriatic Ports with Central Europe hinterlands. The project aims to integrate and capitalize results of previous international projects and local initiatives for the promotion of multimodal transport solutions and increased interconnectivity of individual transport modes.

EMPIRIC’s objectives include:

• Provision of adequate start-up conditions for the initiation of new multimodal services within the Baltic – Adriatic Corridor and related investments in order to raise the attractiveness of multimodal transport with particular attention to railway and inland waterway services
• Improvement of technology and policy instruments to allow transport operators and logistic services providers to develop more effective and sustainable transport solutions (including specific ICT tools)
• Support the activation of economically viable multimodal services linking, in particular, Nord Adriatic Ports (NAPA) with the Central European regions and integrating individual modes to greener logistic chains
• Preparation of initial conditions for infrastructural investments to new alternative multimodal platforms and services in the programme area and evaluation of economic, social and environmental impacts of such investments

ITL is involved, in particular, in the activities related to the drafting of the Handbook of CE Incentive, which contains the results of the survey on regional and national incentives and their impact conducted by the partnership in the territories involved in the project. Starting from the transnational overview of incentive policies and their impact at the CE level, ITL develops technical tools aimed at the main target groups of the project: operators, logistics providers and enterprises.

Lead Partner: 

Venice Port Authority, IT

Partners:

TINA VIENNA Urban Technologies & Strategies Ltd., AT

Luka Koper, SI

Institute for Transport and Logistics Foundation (ITL), IT

Pannon Business Network Association, HU

Consortium for the Development of Polesine, IT

Consortium for the Industrial Development of the Aussa-Corno Area, IT

Austrian Mobility Research FGM-AMOR gem. GmbH, AT

Agency of East Lombardy for Transports and Logistics, IT

Institute of Economics – University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, PL

City of Nuremberg – Department for Economic Affairs, DE

CityPlan Ltd., CZ