Network Integration Test

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Network Integration Test Experimentation
WorksNITEworksBrief to Operational Research
Society
Version 3.3c
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What is NITEworks ?

• An integrated organisation that seeks to help its
  customers understand and implement change.
• NITEworks is a tool that can support planning and
  trade-off/optimisation decisions in the military
  capability space.
• As NITEworks also addresses new ways of working,
  it has the potential to illuminate issues and
  inform/catalyse change in the way defence
  business is done.

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NITEworks Operating Process
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Partnership
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Policy, organisational aspects and network
integration

• Objectives
• To discuss initiatives that can assist in the
  policymaking process in relation public and
  private investment strategies
• To analyse integration problems in peripheral
  regions of Europe and towards third countries
• To analyse possibilities to strengthen
  organisational aspects within transfer points
• To assist in the formulation of new policies for
  the integration of the transfer points in the
  European intermodal freight corridors.

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Policy, organisational aspects and network
integration

• Topics
• Public, Private Partnerships
• TEN-T policy issues
• National investment plans
• Regional development
• Environmental impacts
• Location patterns

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Policy, organisational aspects and network
integration

• Elementary knowledge on intermodal terminal
  network on European level is lacking.
• Clustering, inventory or new research is needed
  on this area.
• There is no common view of financing of
  intermodal terminals on European level.
• The European countries have different financing
  systems. In Germany the financial
• aid for terminal construction has stimulated the
  implementation of new intermodal
• terminals.
• Intermodal terminals are not directly included in
  the TEN-networks today. Financial
• aid from the European Union should be introduced
  as a part of TEN financing
• policy and terminals should be a more integrated
  part of the TEN-network.

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Policy, organisational aspects and network
integration

• The congestion on the European roads will
  deteriorate in the coming years thus
• alternative freight distribution solutions must
  be enchanced. The construction of
• TEN-road network, e.g. bridges between
  Scandinavia and Central Europe, weaken
• the operational preconditions of intermodal
  transport. Fair pricing of infrastructure
• including internalising social costs in
  international connections is needed.
• There is little Origin-Destination flow
  information on international flows. Some EU
• financed research projects include this kind of
  information but further integration
• of this information is needed. A proposal for a
  public database provided by EU
• was introduced.
• Intermodal traffic needs to set more clear
  targets, for example 10 or 20 share
• of the transport.

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Questions?