Rail Electronic Data Interchange in a Border Crossing Point in South East Europe : An Assessment of Options
Within the European Union (EU) rail transport is currently the least integrated transport mode. This leads to delays, extra costs, and insufficient use of rail freight, especially for time-sensitive cargo. This also represents a missed opportunity...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/05/24480664/rail-electronic-data-interchange-border-crossing-point-south-east-europe-assessment-options http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22811 |
| Summary: | Within the European Union (EU) rail
transport is currently the least integrated transport mode.
This leads to delays, extra costs, and insufficient use of
rail freight, especially for time-sensitive cargo. This also
represents a missed opportunity in terms of moving towards a
greener transport modal split within the EU. Rail freight,
for which international activity represents 50 percent of
total activities, will not be able to develop fully if
border crossing rail operations do not deliver a better
service for shippers and freight operators who require
seamless trans-national transport as is possible by road,
air and sea. Observing that the modal split of rail in the
EU is stagnating at around 16 percent after years of
decline, the European Commission proposed a regulation on a
European rail network for competitive freight to be based on
a number of rail freight corridors which entered into force
on November 9, 2010. Regulation No 913/2010 makes it
mandatory to create a European rail network for competitive
freight based on international freight corridors,
recognizing that the need to strengthen the competitiveness
of rail freight requires a corridor approach, involving
corridors that cross national borders. TheEU adoption in
2010 of a corridor approach focusing on international rail
freight has important implications for EU member states,
accession and candidate countries, in terms of approaching
rail freight investments and performance from an
international corridor perspective with enhanced
cross-border coordination, with the ultimate aim of
increasing the attractiveness of rail to potential freight
customers. The objective of this report is to address this
recommendation by assessing whether it makes sense to
introduce a pilot EDI in a rail border crossing point in
South East Europe. It aims to make a preliminary assessment
of the various technical options in terms of hardware,
software, and communication requirements of such
architecture, taking into account that any technical
solution proposed needs to be adapted to the countries in
question, given existing infrastructure and European
regulations. The ultimate aim is to improve rail border
crossing performance in South East Europe by the use of EDI
to improve integration. |
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