1. WP 5.5 Rail solutions N-S and E-W Market share for rail transport in Norway is fairly high domestic but very low on international transports Identify bottlenecks, barriers, hindrances for rail freight Find solutions to ease these

2. Period 1 Month 1-6 ActivityResponsibility Creating team of stakeholdersInterested partners Study of former projects and surveysENCN Information from actual studies and reportsAll partners Input to focus areas and bottlenecksAll partners Description of possible own specific project under task 5.5Actual partners Develop draft detailed task planENCN Comments to draft planAll partners Detailed action plan to all partnersENCN

3. Period 2 Month 7-12 ActivityResponsibility Description of bottlenecks and problems; e.g. laws and regulations, infrastructure capacity, flexibility of material, logistics hubs etc. All partners Good examples of problem solving and/or activities to improve rail freight competitiveness All partners National and international intentions and/or activities that might improve rail freight competitiveness All partners Other proposals for improvement of rail freight competitivenessAll partners Information from possible own specific projectActual partners Draft report on problems, bottlenecks and recommendations for solutionsENCN Comments to draft reportAll partners Report on problems, bottlenecks and recommendations for solutionsENCN

4. Rest of project MonthMain outputs 13-18Created public and private alliance to solve identified problems 19-24Launched public-private actions to combat and solve identified transport obstacles and barriers 25-30Prepared pre-feasibility study, conclusions transferred to discussion on harmonisation needs for pan-Baltic transport planning 31-36Conclusions inserted to the regional action plan of TransBaltic. Dissemination activities and follow-up discussion with business stakeholders for full deployment of pilot demonstrations.