For over sixty years Panteia, notably through NEA Transport research and training, has been active in the fields of transport, traffic, infrastructure and logistics. Its activities are focused on research, consultancy and training in the Netherlands and abroad. Panteia covers a broad field encompassing all the economic and social aspects of both passenger and freight transport, for all modes of transport.

Services are based on unique experience, networks and detailed knowledge and data relating to various markets. Panteia leads the market in the field of modelling, forecasting and evaluating international traffic flows (simulation, scenario building, economic impact analysis, etc.) Panteia also provides technical assistance to institutions and authorities, e.g. in developing and implementing transport policies. Domestic and international clients have commissioned NEA to perform feasibility studies, economic effect studies of infrastructure or research on logistics and physical distribution. Panteia provides its clients with reliable and objective analyses of the economic, legal, organisational and institutional aspects of traffic, transport, infrastructure and logistics. Panteia aims to contribute to the innovative and structural improvement of transport worldwide by providing a well-founded vision based on the principle of sustainable mobility.

Panteia also has a long history in transport-related training services, covering a broad range of activities, such as the development of course material and case studies, training needs assessments and implementing training courses including on-the-job training.

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Example projects:

ECCONET
Effects of Climate Change on the inland waterway NETwork

NEA has recently started to work on the ECCONET (Effects of Climate Change on the inland waterway NETwork) project, funded by the European Commission (DG TREN). ECCONET is a three-year project with the aim to assess the effects of climate change on the inland waterway network and to develop adaptation strategies. NEA is part of a diverse and interesting consortium of 10 partners, under coordination of Transport and Mobility Leuven. The project builds on past and ongoing research in meteorology, hydrology, infrastructure operation, ship-building, transportation, and economics to assess the various effects of climate change on navigation conditions and to analyse adaptation measures to decrease the sensitivity of inland waterway transport to climate change.

The main results expected from the ECCONET project are an impact analysis related to the climate change and a strategic framework, bundling concrete adaptation measures and policy guidelines, for a continued development of the inland waterway transport mode. ECCONET will cooperate and coordinate its activities with similar FP7 projects such as EWENT and WEATHER (NEA is also involved in this latter project). Also, targeted input will be provided to the development plan for EU inland waterway infrastructure within the PLATINA project. The first intermediate project results of ECCONET will be available in the beginning of 2011. These are related to the area of study and the choice of representative climate scenarios.

NEA is involved in 4 of the 6 workpackages. We coordinate the work in workpackage 3 where the effects of climate change and adaptation strategies on the transport network are assessed. We use a transport model to determine future transport effects taking into account climate changes, economic developments and transport infrastructure changes. Outcomes of this workpackage are input to further work on the economic evaluation of the adaptation strategies and the derivation of policy recommendations.

Information
For more information we refer to the project website: http://www.tmleuven.be/project/ecconet/home.htm.

TRACECA Transport and Trade Atlas
The TRACECA Atlas has been produced under the project EUROPEAID "Strengthening of Transport Training Capacities in NIS countries (TRACECA)". It is part of the training materials developed in the field of transport planning, investment appraisal and multimodal transportation and interoperability.

The atlas should be considered as training material and as a workdocument. It provides useful information on trade and transport flows, transport chains and intermodal transport and logistics in the TRACECA countries:

Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

The atlas has been developed by a team of NEA experts in close cooperation with NEA Central Asia, NII TK Kazakhstan and the Institute of Transport and Communications (ITC) in Bulgaria with the support of the Permanent Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Commission TRACECA in Baku.

The data presented and forecasts provided are derived from the NEA database and are the full responsibility of NEA.

This atlas provides an overview of the different trade and transport issues in the TRACECA area. The atlas is structured in themes. These themes comprise trade and transport flows, transport policy, transport chains, intermodal transport, logistics, operational procedures, external effects and further issues.

The individual chapters deal with the following issues:

Chapter 1  Trade and transport flows
Chapter 1 describes the relation between economy and transport. It presents the trade and transport flows within and between the TRACECA countries, as well as other countries in Europe, Asia and the rest of the world.

Chapter 2  Passenger transport
Chapter 2 provides an overview of the relation between population and transport. It presents an overview of the population as well as the size and performance of passenger transport.

Chapter 3  Transport policy in TRACECA
Chapter 3 provides background information about the transport policy and strategy in the TRACECA area.

Chapter 4  Transport chains and intermodal transport
Since the 1960s major efforts have been made to integrate separate transport systems through intermodal transport, which took place in several stages. This involves the use of at least two different modes in a trip from origin to destination through an intermodal transport chain. Chapter 4 describes the role of intermodal transport and logistics in the TRACECA area.

Chapter 5  Logistics in TRACECA perspective
With the advent of global supply chains, a new premium is being placed on being able to move goods from A to B rapidly, reliably, and cheaply. Chapter 5 shows how TRACECA countries are doing in the area of trade logistics and discusses some operational procedures.

Chapter 6  External effects of transport in TRACECA
External effects like emissions of CO2 and NOx as well as transport safety issues are discussed in chapter 6.

Chapter 7  Further transport issues
Chapter 7 provides some conclusions and recommendations on the availability of statistics and on transport modelling in the differentTRACECA countries.

WORLDNET
WORLDNET is aimed at delivering realistic solutions to support policy forecasting and to facilitate the implementation of European transport and energy policy measures and instruments. The strategic objective is to refine the European transport network model regarding freight and intermodal transport to and from the rest of the world. Specific objectives of WORLDNET include:

• To attain a more precise representation of the freight flows between European countries and the rest of the world
• To extend the network model to other world regions, subsequently to facilitate the use and uptake for direct use in the countries/regions involved
• To seek an active participation from INCO target countries and/or international organisations interested in this action with draw a consistent, quantitative baseline for technology, transport, energy, environment and economic trends.

A key task of WORLDNET will be to implement a communication tool with the other world regions or countries in order to make them to benefit of the knowledge of world transport with the EU. The work foresees in concert with international organisations or countries, in the framework of existing platforms like TRANSFORUM or on an ad hoc basis.

Bestufs II, BEST Urban Freight Solutions II
The main objective of Bestufs II is the collection and dissemination of best practices in urban freight transport. BESTUFS II is a follow-up initiative of the successful BESTUFS project and aims to maintain and expand an open European network between urban freight transport experts, user groups/associations, ongoing projects, the relevant European Commission Directorates and representatives of national, regional and local transport administrations and transport operators in order to identify, describe and disseminate best practices, success criteria and bottlenecks with respect to city logistics solutions (CLS). CLS are attracting ever more attention due to three primary reasons:

• Firstly, current urban goods transport activities are perceived as having a negative affect on the quality of life in urban areas;
• Secondly, structural changes are taking place in urban areas in terms of planning city infrastructure and transport policy (e.g. pedestrian and parking zones), and commercial developments (e.g. shopping malls and emerging e-commerce - home delivery);
• Thirdly, technological innovations (e.g. low emission vehicles, small containers, less expensive transhipment, or EDI) are swiftly entering the market and becoming competitively priced compared to the established technologies.
  
  

CIVITAS - METEOR
This project monitors and evaluates the performance of 19 European cities within the so called 'CIVITAS' initiative. This EU initiative aims to generate a decisive breakthrough by supporting radical integrated sustainable urban transport strategies. Therefore, a crucial component of the CIVITAS initiative is the METEOR project. Key execution features of METEOR are to:

• Play a supporting and facilitating role for all stakeholders in the project;
• Perform independent monitoring and evaluation
• Analyse civitas-level impacts and to provide clear policy recommendations.
• Support a policy advisory committee towards new strategies in clean urban transport
• Disseminate results of the civitas initiative in Europe
  
  

Capacity development for senior transport officials in the TRACECA countries
The objective of this project is to transfer Western European know-how to the Ministries involved, to the top levels of railway administrations and customs authorities, to the port authorities of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea ports along the TRACECA Corridor, and to the customs offices in the aforementioned ports and at border crossing points. Stakeholders in the road transport industry have also been invited.

The purpose of the project is to develop and implement a training programme for top-level decision-makers from the Ministries of Transport and corresponding agencies and administrations of the TRACECA countries (level A target group) and for the heads of border stations and customs stations, the heads of the operational departments of railways, terminal /port operators and ferry operators along the TRACECA Corridor as well as stakeholders in the transport industry (level B target group) in order to learn about aspects of national and regional transport strategy development and general transport master planning, as well as new technologies in the field of computerisation, system changes and communication.

TINA Turkey, transport infrastructure needs assessment
The overall objective of the TINA Turkey project is to initiate the development of a multi-modal transport network within the Republic of Turkey, extending the European Union's TEN-T into the territory of Turkey, and towards the regions of the Middle and Far East, the Caucasus and beyond. Defining and assessing a rational multi-modal transport network implies the development of a methodology and the acceptance of certain basic rules to undertake the proper actions.