Peripheral Access

WHY PERIPHERAL ACCESS?

Peripheral areas such as rural, remotely located or border regions make up 93 percent of EU territory. These scarcely populated regions are all facing similar challenges: poor public transport connections, small budgets, demographic change and high levels of unsustainable, exclusive and costly private car use. Peripheral Access analysed this situation, derived concrete action plans and implemented innovative pilot actions in three fields of action.

With support from the Federal Institute for Research on Building Urban Affairs and Spatial Development and the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community



FIELDS OF ACTION

These fields of action represent key success factors for sustainable mobility: multimodality and integrated transport; enhanced use of intelligent communication technology and intelligent technology system; and better cooperation through transport associations and cross-border marketing. The results benefitted public transport users, planners and decision makers and stimulated changes in mobility behaviour. 

Facts & Figures

9 Partners

7 Countries

2.1 M. Budget
(out of which are 1.7 M. ERDF)

7 Pilot Actions

Past News and Press

14.07.2020

project closure

We did it!

Three years of succesfull cooperation have come to an end. Read all about the final conference and the evaluation of our results here.

News Archive

What we wrote...

In this section you will find all past news items and project events.

Press/ media coverage

What others wrote about us...

In this section you will find news articles about the overall project and the different pilot projects.

project Documents & Publications

Intermodality

Intermodality

Use of Intelligent Communication Technology (ICT) & Intelligent Transport Solutions (ITS)

Use of Intelligent Communication Technology (ICT) & Intelligent Transport Solutions (ITS)

Smart Governance: Cooperation and Marketing

Smart Governance: Cooperation and Marketing

Press & Communication kit

Press & Communication kit

Project Outputs, Deliverables and results

EU-wide status-quo analysis of INTERMODAL MOBILITY and SMART MOBILITY OPTIONS, smart governance and marketing approaches
in peripheral areas

Thematic regional status quo analysis (INTERMODALITY, ICT/ ITS USE, smart governance and marketing) for seven partner regions incl. 
stakeholder consultation

Action plans and priority lists (intermodality, ICT/ ITS USE, Smart governance and marketing) for seven partner regions

IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING OF A MULTIMODAL MOBILITY NODE IN THE RURAL AREA ROUND GRAZ (PILOT ACTION 1)

TESTING SMART MOBILITY AND SMART TICKETING SYSTEMS IN a SELECTED PERIPHERAL AREA OF
FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA (IT) BORDERING WITH SLOVENIA (PILOT ACTION 2)

PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERMODAL REGIONAL RAILWAY STATION (IN LUBIN / POLAND) AS ACCESS POINT TO THE EUROPEAN TEN-T NETWORK (PILOT ACTION 3)

Summer school on intermodality (in Hungary)

City-industry dialogue (in Czech Republic)

INtroduction of new methods supporting cross-border cooperation in South Moravia (pilot action 4)

developing and implementing a Cross-border marketing campaign Gera / germany -Cheb / Czech Republic (pilot action 5)

Joint evaluation report (WP1-3)

Policy recommendations for all three areas of action (Wp 1-3)

Integrated conference on sustainable mobility in peripheral and Cross-border areas (in germany)


Project Partners

Peripheral Access has 9 partners from 7 countries.

Working structure

Overview

What is it all about?

Peripheral Access interlinked in its work plan the three main success factors for better transport: 

  1. Intermodality
  2. Use of Intelligent Communication Technologies (ICT) and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
  3. Smart governance: cooperation and marketing.

Working area 1

Intermodality

People expect door-to-door mobility, combining different modes of transport, irrespectively if they travel short, medium or long-distance. Technology is set to support these new mobility patterns. The project analysed how existing networks can best be exploited, and what additional network elements are needed for having a positive impact on the capacity of an overall system. The project helped its partners to develop stations further into effective and attractive intermodal hubs accessible for all. The development of stations and their environment acted as a driver for the region, support by partners with targeted and effective interventions.

Working Area 2

Use of ICT & ITS

This area focussed on small-scale flexible demand-responsive transport services for rural and peripheral areas and smart and integrated ticketing solutions. These strategies were tested in pilot areas allowing a consistent data-generation for their validation in the field. Pilots results were capitalised to contribute to the EU roadmap in the field of ITS, smart mobility and the digital economy.

Working area  3

Smart governance: Cooperation
and marketing

The project analysed, tested, applied and evaluated innovative cross-sector cooperation, financing, marketing and smart governance approaches at regional and cross-border level. Stakeholders responsible for commissioning and organising regional passenger transport were deeply involved. The project enhanced the cooperation and integration of existing policy, legal and institutional networks and also supported cross-border cooperative marketing structures. New mobility-related cooperation patterns and operational marketing synergies arose.

Project Duration

Start Date

06/2017

End Date

05/2020

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