About Seetac
The SEETAC project is funded under the South East Europe
Programme. The Project area is an important transit one within the
European Transport Network and an essential region to link Europe
with the Far East. The level of services offered along this area is
below the EU standards and suffers from scarce investments and lack
of transnational cooperation. As the concept of Corridors was
substituted with the concept of Axis (HLG Report 2005), the
national approach to create domestic high speed connections without
a transnational approach has become obsolete and inadequate. SEETAC
aims at solving the cross-border bottlenecks and the lack of
harmonization and becoming an instrument to solve both the
administrative problems, such as missing institutional and legal
transnational framework at border crossings, and the operational
ones, such as lack of common safety, security and environmental
standards, lack of harmonisation of transport modes.
The overall project objective is the establishment and
implementation of an effective and coordinated SETA framework,
promoting and fostering the institutional cooperation between PEC
structures and Member States in order to reach the EU's objectives
of (i) transparency & information reliability; (ii) harmonised
and efficient institutional framework and; (iii) rapid
implementation of the transport priority projects.
The specific project objectives have been identified in the
following WPs:
- WP1: Transnational Project management and Coordination;
- WP2: establishment of an institutional communication system
aiming at fostering the information and dissemination
activities;
- WP3: implementation of a coordinated database management
system;
- WP4: definition of multi-modal traffic scenarios and common
mobility standards and environmental guidelines;
- WP5: identification of necessary financial resources and
financing mechanisms;
- WP6: finalisation of SEE Spatial Planning and legal
framework.
The project will offer significant advantages to all the
partners in terms of spatial planning and
regional cooperation and integration, and
contribute to solving the existing problems in the traffic sector.
A close cooperation among the main actors will facilitate to match
investments, plan cross-border projects and agree on measures for
the elimination of non-physical barriers (for freight and
passengers/tourists) thus raising awareness of political decision
makers and public opinion on the aims and priorities along the
Axes. The project began on 1st April 2009 and will last for 36
months, until 31st March 2012.