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GILBERTO GALLONI PRESIDENT OF EUROPLATFORMS The European Association of freight villages “Freight village – Directions for use” Istanbul, 28th June 2005. FIGURES. 60 Freight Villages 9 Countries Italy–Spain–Germany–Denmark–Portugal–Luxembourg–Greece–France–Hungary-Ukraine
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GILBERTO GALLONI PRESIDENT OF EUROPLATFORMS The European Association of freight villages “Freight village – Directions for use” Istanbul, 28th June 2005
FIGURES • 60 Freight Villages • 9 Countries • Italy–Spain–Germany–Denmark–Portugal–Luxembourg–Greece–France–Hungary-Ukraine • 2.400 Transport operators
DEFINITION A freight village is a defined area within which all activities relating to transport, logistic and distribution of goods, both for national and International transit are carried out by various operators. A freight village must also be equipped with all the public facilities to carry out the above mentioned operations. In order to encourage intermodal transport for the handling of goods, a freight village must preferably be served by a multiplicity of transport modes (road, rail, deep sea, inland waterway, air).
DEFINITION by European Conference of Ministers of Transport & UNECE FREIGHT VILLAGE Geographical grouping of independent companies and bodies which are dealing with freight transport (for example, freight forwarders, shippers, transport operators, customs) and with accompanying services (for example, storage, maintenance and repair), including at least a terminal.
ACTVITIES • Define the infrastructural necessities and the Logistics Centre layout • Business Plan • Realize the general infrastructures, the warehouses and the integrated services • Leasing activities (warehouses,offices,etc) • Selling activities (warehouses,offices,etc) • Adiministrative, financial, commercial, operating management of the Logistics Centre • Upkeep and management of common property
INFRASTRUCTURES • Warehouses with raised docking bays • Warehouses with rail-road interchange • Large-sized warehouses • Public warehouses for storage • Air-conditioned warehouses • Intermodal terminal
SERVICES • Customs District • Post Office/Public telephones/Bus service • Motel • Restaurant/Self-service • Areas for parking and loading/unloading • operations • Filling station with vehicle washing facilities
LOCAL AUTHORITIES POLICY FREIGHT VILLAGE LOCATION INFRASTRUCTURES
ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE Public-Private Partnership- Public Authorities support for 1 policies on economic and territorial development 2 environmental policy 3 synergies with ports/rail infrastructures (multi-modality) - High investments
PRIVATE PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP MANAGEMENT COMPANY Service Management Company Condominium
NATIONAL LAWS THE ITALIAN EXAMPLE: LAW 240/90 “Italian State support for building freight villages and developing intermodality” The law established the definition – activities – functions of freight villages Objective: to concentrate traffic flows to make competitive intermodality 362 Million €
MAIN PHASES IN PLANNING A FREIGHT VILLAGE TRAFFIC ANALYSIS COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS LOCATION ANALYSIS MASTERPLAN Economical effects Traffic effects Ecological effects Area management effects Financial engineering Possible area Best location Traffic links Area utilization Future development Concept Functions Blueprint Masterplan Infrastructures Capacity performance Traffic potential Traffic networks Modal split Logistics demand Logistics & transport companies
THE ROLE OF FREIGHT VILLAGES • Offer alternative transport solutions more efficient and complete • Move part of the freight transport from road to other modes of transport (intermodality) • Manage the exponential increase of freight transport in the optimal way
EFFECTS • Limitation of total transport costs • Limitation of de-industrialisation process • Increase of competitiveness of the industrial system • Environement protection
FACTS NOT WORDS Funded by the European Commission under the transport RTD Programme of the 4th Framework Programme RESULTS 1.The use of intermodal transport is higher inside the FVs than outside. 2. The transport companies, located inside the FVs, have a higher turnover coming from the intermodality than the companies operating outside the freight villages 3. A higher productivity values of transport companies both for the total flows and the R/R flows.
CONCLUSIONS • The integrated model of freight village is preferable to the non-integrated one. • The concentration of transport and logistic activities in larger infrastructures is more economic and efficient than several smaller intermodal terminals scattered over the territory. • Co-ordinated planning and funding is necessary to develop freight villages and intermodality.
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