A BSR multimodal Transport Strategy

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A BSR multimodal Transport Strategy

• Mats Petersson
• BSSSC
• Region Skåne
• Hamburg 11 May 2007

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Skåne - A partner in BSR cooperation

• Part in the dynamic Öresund Region
• 1.2 million inhabitants
• Strategic location in the BSR context
• A hub in Scandinavia
• Active partner in interregional cooperation
• Partner in pan-Baltic organisations

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BSSSC work group

• BSSSC calls for strategic co-operation and
  continued dialogue with the aim of establishing
  a common transport vision
• Representatives from regions in the BSR
  countries
• Chair person Annika Annerby Jansson, Skåne
• Annual conference. Kiel Sept 2006

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Why a common strategy?

• Specific BSR conditions
• Need for a better co-ordination and co-operation
  between regional, national and European levels
• One voice
• Support a needed dialogue public-private sector
• Benchmarking
• Accessibility - a pre-condition for sustainable
  growth

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Accessibility a pre-condition for sustainable
growth
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Preparation up to now

• BSSSC Work group, including dialogue
• Political back up i Region Skåne
• Pan-Baltic organisations BSSSC, BDF, CBSS,
  others
• High Level Group on transports in BSR
• Initial contacts with regions
• BSR Interreg IIIB joint secretariat

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Distinguishing project features

• Common BSR problems and challenges
• Entire geography of BSR
• Create common BSR knowledge and consensus
• Develop, clarify, and support common strategies
• Develop and submit a BSR stand point
• Political involvement

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Implications for partnership

• Reflect the entire territory
• Administrative levels
• Political commission
• Active partners in the BSR development
• Complement to existing parnetships (Baltic
  Gateway, COINCO, Baltic Palette, Barents etc)
• Comming cross border progammes

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Possible content - Scenarios

• Integration of BSR economies
• Global trade
• Climate change
• Transport policies
• Technology implementation

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Possible content - Accessibility and economic
development

• Market trends
• Transport flows
• Accessibility and competetive regions
• Transport system and driving forces in BSR
• Cohesion

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Possible content - Transport networks

• Global flows, gateways
• BSR internal
• Metropolitan areas
• TEN and the future BSR perspective
• Inter-modality and co-modality
• Bottle necks

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Possible content - Environment and sustainable
transports

• Present stage, threats, challenges
• Emissions, energy, safety, vulerability,
• Tool box
• Strategies
• Measures

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Possible content - Implementation

• Private Public Partnerships financing, IPCs
  etc
• European national regional politics
• EU policy implementation in BSR
• Case studies

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Project design

• Core and backing partners
• Regions as core partners
• National bodies
• Pan-Baltic organisations
• High Level Group on transports
• Reference groups
• 2 stages strategy and implementation
• Project development in the core partnership

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Core partners

• Strong network
• Experience
• Political capacity
• Good reputation
• Ability to co-finance project activities (cash)
• Capacity to be work package leader

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End of presentation

• First call in the new BSR programme 2007-2013
• mats.petersson_at_skane.se