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Understand the impact of globalization on transport demand and logistics activities, and how Freight Villages can optimize infrastructures, increase competitiveness, and rationalize distribution for a more efficient European Transport System.
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GILBERTO GALLONI PRESIDENT OF EUROPLATFORMS The European Association of Freight Villages
THE CURRENT SITUATION GLOBALISATION Effects • Increase of the total transport demand • Increase of the logistic activities The current European Transport System is not adequate to the transport needs
WHAT TO DO • Rationalisation of the transport demand/ • Optimisation of the transport infrastructures • Concentration of the total transport flows/ • Increasing of the intermodality • Increasing the competitiveness and the • productivity of the road transport companies • Optimisation of the vehicle utilisation • Rationalisation of the urban freight distribution
SOLUTION The FREIGHT VILLAGES are transport realities that could offer the required infrastructures to support the: Territorial planning/ Rationalization of the infrastructures Transport quality Intermodality development
WHAT IS A FREIGHT VILLAGE
DEFINITION A Freight Village is a defined area where all the activities related to transport, logistics and distribution of goods, both for national and international transit, are carried out by different operators
FREIGHT VILLAGES A new node inside the TRANSPORT EUROPEAN NETWORK
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