1. GILBERTO GALLONI PRESIDENT OF EUROPLATFORMS
The European Association of Freight Villages

2. GLOBALISATION Effects THE CURRENT SITUATION
Increase of the total transport demand
Increase of the logistic activities
The current European Transport System
is not adequate to the transport needs

3. WHAT TO DO
Rationalisation of the transport demand/
Optimisation of the transport infrastructures
Concentration of the total transport flows/
Increasing of the intermodality
Increasing the competitiveness and the
productivity of the road transport companies
Optimisation of the vehicle utilisation
Rationalisation of the urban freight distribution

4. Territorial planning/ Rationalization of the infrastructures
SOLUTION
The FREIGHT VILLAGES are
transport realities that could offer
the required infrastructures to support the:
Territorial planning/ Rationalization of the infrastructures
Transport quality
Intermodality development

5. WHAT IS A
FREIGHT VILLAGE

6. international transit, are carried out by different operators
DEFINITION
A Freight Village is a defined area where all the activities related to transport, logistics and distribution of goods, both for national and
international transit, are carried out by different operators

7. BOLOGNA FREIGHT VILLAGE

8. TRANSPORT EUROPEAN NETWORK
FREIGHT VILLAGES
A new node inside the
TRANSPORT EUROPEAN NETWORK

10. Thank you for your attention