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The ultimate objective of RECORDIT is to:
improve the competitiveness of intermodal freight transport in
Europe through the reduction of cost and price barriers which currently hinder its
development, while respecting the principle of sustainable mobility.
The immediate objectives of RECORDIT are:
- to define and validate a methodology for the calculation of the real (internal + external) costs of intermodal freight transport
- to assess the existing charging and taxation systems, and to compare real costs to charges and taxes currently paid
- to compare costs and prices of intermodal transport services across countries and between intermodal and all-road solutions
- to assess current imbalances and market distortions
- to build consensus among public authorities, operators and end-users, on the understanding of the cost and price formation mechanisms
- to recommend policy and business actions allowing to drastically reduce intermodal costs and to increase the attractiveness of intermodal transport options
- to pave the way to the generalised use of real cost calculation methodologies
- to disseminate project findings and results
The overall objective of WP1 is to define and specify the accounting
framework for the analysis of the cost structure of door-to-door intermodal freight
transport services.
The aim of this Workpackage is to analyse the main parameters that
influence the values of internal and external, fixed and variable costs for the different
transport activities and thereby provide a basis for understanding the representativeness
of potential study corridors in the context of Europe as a whole. A general analysis will
be carried out on the main European routes used in intermodal transport in order to build
a reference scenario on the current state of intermodal transport market in Europe. In the
second phase of WP2 the methodological tool prepared in the first phase will be applied to
the potential corridors and nodes that will be investigated in detail in WP3, WP4 and WP5.
The aim of WP3 is to validate the methodology developed in WP1 and WP2
for resource costs and to allow a feed-back and a test of the methodology for data
collection and cost calculation in well determined contexts. The results of WP3 will
provide the data basis for the following workpackages. Fixed and variable resource costs
for the selected door-to-door transport corridors will be calculated following the
bottom-up impact pathway approach developed in WP1 and following the methodology developed
in WP2. Quality criteria as flexibility, lead time, reliability, control safety and
security and weak elements within the intermodal transport chains will be taken in
consideration to evaluate the performance of intermodal transport along the corridor from
the business point of view. The results of the analysis will be compared to cost and
quality performance of road transport in both directions and will be extremely concrete
and directly usable by the transport chain actors.
The aim of WP4 is to validate the methodology developed in WP1 and WP2
for external costs and to allow a feed-back and a test of the methodology for data
collection and cost calculation in well determined contexts Marginal external costs for
the selected transport corridors will be calculated following the bottom-up impact pathway
approach developed in ExternE and the recommendations of the working groups for the High
Level Group on Infrastructure Charging. The following impact categories will be addressed:
impacts from airborne pollutants on human health, building materials, agricultural
products and ecosystems, impacts from noise, climate change, severance effects, impacts on
biodiversity, accident risks, congestion and slot scarcity.
Identifying the nature and structure of the taxes and charges in
European countries and calculating the price that shippers have to pay for intermodal and
road transport along the selected corridors.
The overall objective of WP6 is to assess current imbalances and
inefficiencies resulting from the comparison of real Vs current costs and of prices Vs
costs.
WP7 aims at developing an interactive software procedure to support
real cost calculations of intermodal transport corridors. It will further allow users to
design and run policy scenarios, simulating the impacts of specific cost reduction
actions.
WP8 aims at identifying and analysing the practical (i.e. technical,
operational, organisational and commercial) means to reduce door-to-door intermodal
transport costs, and to set target values to serve as benchmarks for future cost reduction
actions.
The aim of this workpackage is to place the corridor studies in the
context of Europe as a whole, derive policy recommendations together with practical,
effective and efficient means to reduce intermodal transport costs.
Ensuring that the results of the project (both methodology and
valuation outputs) are effectively and efficiently exploited and that real cost
calculations become an easily performed exercise, to support Intermodal Transport Cost
reduction policy and actions.
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