Development of a New Logistics Funding Scheme
13.16
From 2013 to 2015
TML provided the European Commission with the necessary input to identify and analyse suitable policy options and their impacts in order to prepare the next Marco Polo programme.
The objectives of the past Marco Polo programme were as follows:
For the successor to Marco Polo, the EC wants to continue supporting sustainable freight transport services, but any new scheme will have to learn its lessons from the current programme and take into account its weaknesses.
The subtasks included a fact-finding phase, mapping the market situation through data collection, and stakeholder consultation. Then the different modalities of a funding scheme were examined at EU and Member State level. Finally, a number of policy options were developed and assessed to determine the structure of the new financing system.
TML was involved in the data collection and impact assessment.
The objectives of the past Marco Polo programme were as follows:
- Shift freight transport from road to combined transport with short sea/rail/inland waterways and smaller roads, with cargo defined as freight in intermodal loading units, bulk, or general cargo.
- Reduce road transport through integration in production logistics: avoiding road transport, for example through higher load factors, smaller product or packaging volumes, shorter distances, fewer empty runs, reduction of (waste) flows through innovative (software) solutions.
For the successor to Marco Polo, the EC wants to continue supporting sustainable freight transport services, but any new scheme will have to learn its lessons from the current programme and take into account its weaknesses.
The subtasks included a fact-finding phase, mapping the market situation through data collection, and stakeholder consultation. Then the different modalities of a funding scheme were examined at EU and Member State level. Finally, a number of policy options were developed and assessed to determine the structure of the new financing system.
TML was involved in the data collection and impact assessment.
