Topic

The GeTRI–SWITCH (Cross-border Management Transport of Inert Waste Intermodal) project, was funded under the INTERREG 2014-2020 program, Axis 3 Integrated and Sustainable Mobility: Improving Mobility in Cross-Border Areas.

The project, developed in collaboration with Province of Varese (lead partner of the project), Republic and Canton of Ticino, Lombardy Region, Province of Como, LIUC-Università Cattaneo, ARS Ambiente and SBB Cargo, made it possible to verify the technical and economic feasibility of the intermodal transport of aggregates and inert waste between Canton Ticino and Lombardy.

Objectives

GeTRI aims to create knowledge and support tools for planning in the management of aggregate transport, using intermodal systems that involve the integration of road transport with rail transport, in order to optimize the transportation of virgin aggregates from Italy to Switzerland and inert waste from Switzerland to Italy.

Results

The GeTRI project was completed in 36 months and achieving all the planned objectives, allowing for the creation of a large amount of documentation and valuable materials (including: brochures, scientific articles, guidelines for the intermodal transport of aggregates, a book on the intermodal transport of aggregates published by Guerini Ed., a technical report on the standards, a technical report on the transport of aggregates, a report on BAT for the logistics of aggregates, a technical-economic feasibility study of intermodal transport, a simulation software, information videos and an operational protocol for the intermodal transport of aggregates. All materials can be accessed on the website https://www.switch-research.org/) which were disseminated in a limited time without allowing the results to be exploited operationally.

Finally, a draft of the “Memorandum of understanding for the intermodal transport of aggregates” was drawn up, illustrated in the final conference of the project, which needs to be refined and shared with the institutional subjects involved at all levels so that it can serve as a basis for facilitation agreements of this innovative and sustainable mode of transport.

Information

Coordinator: Eng. Alessandro Creazza (acreazza@liuc.it),

Eng. Fabrizio Dallari (fdallari@liuc.it),

Eng. Martina Farioli (mfarioli@liuc.it)