THE GILDA PROJECT
The GILDANET project proposes to transform the existing infrastructures into a working system based on reference architecture for the logistics at European level in full coherence with the user's needs and the emerging standards for mastering the business processes, using advanced Information and Communication Technological (ICT) solutions.
OBJECTIVES
The emerging political, social and economic integration of the European countries dominated by the expansion of the E.U. towards the Eastern countries sets new challenges and opportunities for transport. The current discontinuities and infrastructure limitations should be recovered, aiming at more effective and low cost integration of all the parties involved in multimodal transport chains. GILDA project, responding to this demand and based on the results of TRANSLOGNET/GILDA, has formulated an advanced ICT oriented implementation plan. This plan articulates in the following objectives:
· To enhance existing ICT-solutions (GILDA Italy, TRANSLOGNET, LOGLINE, other CADSES area transport portals) with capabilities to cooperatively support transnational transport chains. The approach used will be based upon recent developments in the area of interoperability, notably in the area of e-business and e-government. Specifically, efforts will be made to build upon the recommendations and deliverables of international standardization bodies.
· To build pilot systems, interconnecting ICT-solutions (GILDA Italy, TRANSLOGNET, LOGLINE, other CADSES area transport portals) among themselves and with legacy applications of other public/private actors to support specific transport chains, such as perishable goods, automotive and empty containers. These pilots will have to cover all pertinent processes of international transport chains.
· To define appropriate business models, showing the value add of these services to its clients and proving the sustainability of these ICT-services businesses to their stakeholders.
· By means of provision of these open and easy accessible ICT services, to establish a level playing field for SME`s and global players in planning and participating in multi-modal networks; allowing for interoperability not only between different competing transport sector applications, but with production and distribution processes as well. Main concept of the whole project is to develop regional (per country) platforms operated over Internet, which will interoperate with the GILDANET Integrated Portal. Through this portal and in combination with the applications that will be developed, all public and private organizations acting in the logistics freight transport sector can cooperate and perform their business and transport transactions. A significant activity will consist in the integration/customization of existing systems of public and private organizations participating in the project. More particularly, assistance will be provided to the latter parties in order to integrate selected legacy systems with the applications to be developed in GILDANET.
TELEMATICS AND IT SOLUTIONS FOR INTERMODAL SYSTEMS
GILDA/ITALY
GILDA project main objective was to develop an IT system to support the flows and the exchange of information and documents which are related to the intermodal transport chain.
In fact, the main objective of the GILDA Italy project was to transform the currently mostly manually performed operating tasks involved in transportation logistics into a series of computerized processes, to simplify them and to make them easily accessible to all Italian and European operators.
TRANSLOGNET/GREECE
Prime objective: to improve the efficiency of intermodal transport through a simple cost effective and open architecture system integrating the various actors in the logistics transport chain. Secondary objectives are for example, develop generic software solutions and an information network based on common building blocks or to develop an open telematics architecture based on latest low cost network developments.
The translognet project was carried out by following a kind of steps ( like study of the business environment in the network or analysis of the current technological infrastructure)and divided into three phases. The final results of the project were evaluated in the third phase.
INTEGRATION BETWEEN THE GILDA/ITALY AND TRANSLOGNET SYSTEMS
The transnational dimension of GILDA has been demonstrated with the integration between GILDA/Italy system and TRANSLOGNET in Greece. The integration work concerned the selection of documents and data to be exchanged and the definition and sharing of the software procedures to realize the exchange.
Moreover, two documents (previsione navi and CALINF)collect information about the position of vessels sailing between Italy and Greece.
PHYSICALL PLANING AND INTERMODALITY
IMONET
IMONET's assignment was to develop economic policy objectives and strategies for an environmentally viable, efficient, high-level multimodal node transportation network in Austria.
The main aim is to analyse the current situation and define measures for promoting combined transport.
SPIL /Slovenia
Characteristics of an efficient intermodal transport system in Slovenia were analyzed and determined by the SPIL project, which consist in two main modules: Spatial Planning (Module A) , which supports spatial development , and Information (Module B), which was expected to be the equivalent of the GILDA Italy project and analyses the existing and determinates the future telematic network .
The prime objective of the project was to improve the efficiency of intermodal transport through a simple cost effective and open architecture system.
THE TRANSNATIONAL SPATIAL PLANNING ASPECT OF GILDA
The whole GILDA project (GILDA, SPIL, IMONET and TRANSLOGENT) have been particularly designed to implement measures: the development of multimodal transport and equity of access to infrastructures and development of balanced and polycentric settlement systems.
The transnational spatial planning effects have been stronger in the SPIL project.
GILDA
The primary attention of the GILDA project was focused upon improvement of maritime transport.
IMONET
The main goal of the IMONET Project has been to develop transport and economic policy objectives and strategies for an environmentally sound, efficient, high-level multimodal node network in Austria. This objective has consolidated the transnational character of the project.
TRANSLOGNET
The TRANSLOGNET project goal has been to study and describe the existing environment in the field of multimodal transportation in Greece and in relation to other countries in the framework of GILDA project.
Apart from the transnational management and coordination structure of GILDA, there has been no joint work that would eventually have integrated the transnational spatial planning aspects of GILDA's integral projects. The projects have dealt with transnational spatial planning topics from different standpoints and to different extent. Transnationality is treated more as an argument for consolidation of the roles of individual (CT) nodes, than as an independent subject of research.
SPIL
The goal of European spatial and transportation policy is to co-ordinate the multi-level interests in the development of transportation and communication systems, including the development of a network of intermodal logistic terminals. The transnational orientation of Slovenian spatial planning requires strengthening of railway transportation and particularly the construction of a fast railway routes.