Together towards an Alpine transport strategy

Common challenges require common Action

The Alpine regions are particularly sensitive to the negative impacts of freight and passenger transport. This is due to very high shares of heavy goods vehicles (HGV), specific topographical features, limited spatial resources and highly vulnerable ecosystems. To tackle the common challenges, the regions Rhône-Alpes, the autonomous Province of Bolzano, the autonomous Region of Aosta Valley, the Piedmont Region, the Friuli-Venezia-Guilia Region, the Canton of Ticino, the Conference of Governments of Central Switzerland, the Land of Tyrol as well as the European Academy of Bolzano have joined forces in 2005 to develop common solutions.

In the frame of two projects under the Alpine Space Programme, the regions have developed a common monitoring system and have analysed Best Practice measures as well as impacts of common steering instruments. Results from these activities have been discussed with regional policy makers and finally brought together in a common strategy.

iMONITRAF! has three main objectives:

1. To act as a political network for mutual exchange and to strengthen the common voice of the Alpine regions.
2. To collect data and depict mobility-related indicators and the effects of future scenarios in traffic development.
3. To develop of a common strategy for the harmonization of existing traffic control measures and for the introduction of a control instrument.