Development, diffusion and application of professional innovative Training tools in Logistics and Transport through territorial Agencies in

order to improve intermodal transport, based on European best practices

ALOT – Agency of East Lombardy for Transports and Logsitcs

Province of Brescia, Bergamo, Cremona, Mantova

Workshop - Wien 24 November 2008

The four Provinces Surface Municipalities Inhabitants

Brescia: 4.784 km2 206 1.200.000

Bergamo: 2.722 km2 244 1.000.000

Mantova: 2.339 km2 70 400.000

Cremona: 1.771 km2 115 350.000

The East Lombardy Area

Fonte: RFI

Area Metropolitana Milanese

Città lineare Milano-Verona

Asse Sempione

Brianza Riqualificazione

Riqualificazione ricollocazione delle funzioni urbaneEspansione

Brescia

The urban macro-provincial development

The local context

Intermodal rail terminal, Brescia

Freight Airport Montichiari

Port of Cremona

Port of Mantova-Valdaro

Other logistic and rail terminals and ports, existing and planned

The local context• Included between 2 corridors

• Relevant sector of transport and logistics (22% of Lombardy Company)

• High level of development of intermodality (8% of total Lombardy movements)

• High level of fragmentation of freight transport offer

• Number of industrials clusters

• The most significant area for the internal waterway transport

24% of total workforce employed in road transport and logistics firms in Lombardy

EASTERN LOMBARDY ECONOMICAL CONTEXT

22% of all road transport and logistics firms in Lombardy

3% of total firms and workforce employed in road transport and logistics in Italy

90,5% of road transport firms with less than 5 persons employed

SOME FACTS

The local context

Background – barriers to the development of intermodality

Need for promotion and a more efficient use of rail, intermodal and inland waterways transport nodes

Existence of barriers for intermodal transport compared with road transport: cost and quality factors

Lack of knowledge of rail and inland waterways transport opportunities

Fragmentation of transport firms structure

SMEs and transport operators performing road transport in presence of intermodal compatible goods

Intermodal operators focusing on great volume customers

Lack of information: competence centres, management and promotion agencies, modal choice tools (software)

TraLoTra Project

Development, diffusion and applicationof professional innovative Training toolsin Logistics and Transportthrough territorial Agenciesin order to improve intermodal transport,based on European best practices

Partner: Province of Brescia Province of Cremona Province of Mantova Paradigma Unternehmensberatung Gmbh, Vienna Klok - Kompetenzzentrum Logistik Kornwestheim GmbH

IntermodalityIntermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in a container or vehicle, using multiple modes of transportation (rail, ship, and truck), without any handling of the freight itself when changing modes.The method reduces cargo handling, and so improves security, may reduce damages and loss, and may allow freight to be transported faster.Reduced cost versus over the road trucking is the key benefit for intracontinental use.

The TraLoTra Group

Project objectives enhance the professional skill of personnel and management of

transport and logistics companies;

enhance the professional skill of personnel in force at Public Agencies for intermodal transport and logistics promotion, in order to improve the specific transport and logistics knowledge for human resources whose activity is mainly aimed at ensuring a public-side interface for territorial “logistics key players”;

improve the attractiveness of intermodal and other forms of sustainable freight transport.

Project impacts Whilst the later are related to the development of a European-wide platform for e-

learning in the field of intermodal and other sustainable forms of transport, in the short term (i.e. project lifetime) the project will bring immediate results related to the opportunity to train workforce and disseminate e-learning concepts.

Encouraging and enabling SME' s to participate in multimodal supply chains will lead to increased transport bundling opportunities and a (not easily quantifiable) shift of long haul freight transports from road to rail, SSS and inland water ways. The combination of these effects is expected to reduce the detrimental impact of transport on the environment.

Education cost savings through sharing scarce resources and skills in a transnational virtual training centre, the deployment of innovative techniques (e.g. blended learning) and technology (Video Conferencing). Easy access to better quality education by virtue of having access to and sharing the expertise of international specialists and experts.

Practitioners, manager and employees consuming the training offerings will improve their chances of finding new, challenging and rewarding employment opportunities; companies challenged to embrace intermodal transport concepts will be able to staff these projects with well trained experts.

DANKE !Visit:http://www.tralotra.eu/&http://tralotra.paradigma.net

ALOT – Agency of East Lombardy for Transports and LogsitcsBy Province of Brescia – Transport DepartmentVia Milano, 13I-25126 Brescia - Italy

MD Guido PiccoliPhone: +39/030/3749724Fax +39/030/2906519GSM +39/347/9341418Email: piccoliguido@libero.it