New perspectives for cross-border mobility: More than twenty experts from five European regions will talk about projects and future visions in a workshop in Innsbruck.
INNSBRUCK, TYROL. There were five European regions that exchanged views on cross-border mobility in Innsbruck this week. More than twenty experts spoke in one session three-day workshop by Interreg Europe about cross-border passenger transport and how to improve it.
The workshop took place in the new Euregio campus in Innsbruck. In addition to the Europaregion Tirol-Südtirol-Trentino, representatives of four other Euregios were present: Euregio Senza Confini (Carinthia, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia), Euregio Maas-Rhein (Belgium, Germany, Netherlands), Euregio Egrensis (Germany-Czech Republic) and the German-Polish partnership on the Oder river.
Above all, those present wanted to learn from each other and compare the experiences of the Euregio Tirol-Südtirol-Trentino with the experiences of the other four Euregios. Also Tyrolean Mobility Provincial Councilor René Zumtobel spoke to the participants at the end of the three-day event about the results and concrete project ideas.
Euregio Tirol-Südtirol-Trentino shows how it’s done
The exchange with other Euregions supports the development of new concepts and to learn from the experiences of othersZumtobel is convinced.
“The Euregio Tirol-Südtirol-Trentino has made great progress for its approximately 1.8 million inhabitants in terms of cross-border mobility in the last ten years”,
according to State Councilor Zumtobel. By this he means, among other things, connections without transfers on the Brenner and in the Puster Valley or the cross-border family and student ticket. “It is my clear political goal to further improve public mobility – also across borders – and to think beyond national borders,” emphasizes Zumtobel. A look at the Number of users of the day ticket “Euregio2Plus” shows that demand is definitely there: This was achieved within a year Bought over 1,800 times. The cross-border Euregio-Ticket Students was bought more than 2,600 times in the last university year.
Concrete projects in development
Cross-border mobility is not only on the Tyrolean agenda within the Euregio. “In its role as co-leader of Action Group 4 Mobility, the Euregio Tiro-Südtirol-Trentino is also heavily involved in the EU Alpine Space Strategy EUSALP and is therefore also pushing the issue outside of the Euregio,” says LR Zumtobel. The workshop in Innsbruck was mainly about overcoming technical and legal obstacles in cross-border public transport. From the results should also concrete projects have already been worked out will. These, in turn, are to be submitted for funding for the new INTERREG program Italy-Austria by 2027.
In any case, in the future there should be significantly more continuous and direct train connections between Tyrol and South Tyrol, but also between South Tyrol and Trentino.
Uniform ticketing required
Pioneering traffic and mobility concepts are for the further development of the Alpine region, Zumtobel explains further. “In 2022, we had to record 2.5 million trucks and eleven million cars on the Brenner alone. The reduction in motorized private transport is, among other measures, an important component in relieving the Brenner corridor – this requires passenger-friendly cross-border connections and uniform ticketing”, LR Zumtobel is pleased about the exchange between the Euregios.
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