The main goals of the FREIA project have been :
- To improve the commercial options of transport SME´s in the intermodal market.
- To improve the accessibility of the European freight villages and their related networks for transport SME´s
- These main goals have been operationalised in the subgoals defined for each of the 5 workpackages:
- to organize four regional user groups involving Intermodal transport parties and transoport SME´s in order to analyse,
- monitor and disseminate knowledge about the barriers and opportunities of intermodal transport
- to develop a transparent classification system of the existing freight villages facilities, services and information systems of
- relevance for transport SME´s
- to identification of SME`s requirements for intermodal transport facilities. Securing via questionaires to 150 transport
- SME´s located inside or close to the terminals a coherent evaluation of the freight villages capacities
- to identify the key elements in the information flow needed by SME´s for having access to intermodal transport systems.
- A model for a freight village information system should be developed.
- to provide transparent information connected to the inter-modal transport chain, by making available the first common
- guide to European inter-modal freight villages at the Internet.