(DE) Madam President, Commissioner, I, too, would like to emphasise that, as far as continued liberalisation and the opening of the rail market are concerned, the freight priority legislation represents a step in the right direction in terms of competition on the rail networks throughout Europe.
The introduction of sophisticated systems and technologies collecting enormous amounts of data about current status as well as the various logistics planning parameters concerning the operation of freight transportation and logistics systems, allow to transmit these data to control centers and data bases held at authorities, carriers and other operators.
An overview of developments in freight transport modelling concerning the integration of logistics will be given in the section below.
The first concerns the freight delivery parking area set-aside requirements when constructing new commercial buildings over 500 m2, new hotels with over 150 rooms, or new offices over 2,500 m2.The second aims to preserve rail and waterway transport sites within Paris, and to accommodate their logistic activities.
One of these areas of concern was the freight rates charged by the railroads and by the grain elevators.
The output of freight transport simply concerns the goods transported from one point in space to another.
For what concerns the exports flows, about the 65% of freight has origin in the North and about the 16% in the South of Italy.
The results of the work are, besides the overall review of the activities and achievements in this field, a novel typology concerning freight ITS, a summary of the most recent technological developments in the field of freight transport, the areas where more work in needed in the future, and finally the priority areas for future research.
Today, urban freight is treated on a case-by-case basis, and if any strategies or objectives concerning urban freight do exist, they are fragmented, which implies that there is not necessarily coordination within or between projects.
For what concerns the variable port (PT), it is statistically significant for all freight in import and, only for perishable goods in the export case.
This case concerns the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission in reparations proceedings to determine the reasonableness of a joint through international freight rate.
