World Conference on Transport Research
The 12th World Conference on Transport Research will
be held in Lisbon, Portugal in July (11th -
15th) 2010. The objective of the WCTRS (World
Conference on Transport Research Society) is to provide a forum
for the interchange of ideas among transportation researchers,
managers, policy makers, and educators from all over the world,
from a perspective which is multi-modal, multi-disciplinary, and
multi-sectoral. The Society has become a primary forum for such
international exchanges in transportation; the World Conferences
are the place where leading transportation professionals from all
countries convene to learn from one another.
The World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR) is organized
every three years under the authority of a permanent body, the WCTR
Society. It brings together managers, policy analysts,
advisers, operators and academics, all with a common interest in
promoting state of the art and state of the practice in all areas
of transport research.
In view of this World Conference, the SEETAC team of the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (ERDF-PP9) prepares a paper to
be submitted in May 2010, under the title "Border crossings along
the Pan-European Corridor X: Infrastructural and procedural
improvements and derived benefits".
In this paper, the Technical Secretariat of the Steering
Committee of Corridor X presents the infrastructural and procedural
obstacles recorded at all the border stations along Corridor X
between Central Europe and Greece in the periods 2002-03 and
2007-08, in order to identify common problems and propose possible
common solutions and measures for the facilitation of trans-border
traffic. This presentation allows a comparison of the situation
before and after several improvements that have taken place and
discussion on the effectiveness of these improvements on the
Corridor operation and general revitalization and the derived (and
expected) benefits through a retrospective analysis.
In the paper, a reference to SEE Transport Axis Cooperation and
its content is made, taking into consideration that this
cooperation will prioritize projects and promote pilots (within
WP5) of trans-national character for immediate implementation
towards an integrated transport system in the region of the SEE
Priority Axis.