Weastflows - a European project serving Seine Gateway®

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Focus on progress made by AURH

Weastflows offers the possibility of promoting Seine Gateway® in Europe whilst positioning it alongside other European gateways, in particular through Action 3. This action focuses on the development of sustainable gateway systems across North West Europe. It aims to support policy integration to better sustainable connectivity.

Six gateways studied

In the framework of Action 3, six gateways are being studied. Four gateways are located at the intersection between maritime and terrestrial flows: • Shannon Limerick Gateway;• Liverpool / Manchester

Gateway; • Thames Gateway;• Seine Gateway®. Two gateways are located in an intersection between multiple mode terrestrial flows: • Luxembourg Gateway;• Duisburg Gateway. Each gateway has a different level of maturity and its own qualities to enhance the development of sustainable freight logistics systems.

A shared definition of a “sustainable freight gateway”

A “Sustainable Freight Gateway” refers to a city or a region which has a logistics ecosystem that contributes to economic development and social well-being, whilst having a limited environmental impact. The base of a sustainable freight gateway is a network of multiple mode infrastructures and public policies which support a commitment to more sustainability (reduction of CO

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emissions, development of multimodal transport solutions, support for innovation, etc.).

A toolkit for Public Policies

In this context, MWRA (Mid-West Region Authority)*, the Irish partner leading Action 3, has worked with other partners who support gateway projects. Together, they have designed a toolkit for public and private decision-makers to help them define their policies concerning freight transport and logistics and help them achieve sustainable gateways. Amongst the tools developed are a label, as well as a “sustainable freight gateway” logo.

*Action 3 has been led since July, 2014 by Limerick city and County Council (LCCC). It replaced MWRA as Weastflows partner.

This label turns sustainable logistics into a competitive advantage

Each partner, including AURH, is invited to use this label as a business card to promote its own gateway. The goal of this label is to encourage the development of more sustainable logistics and to highlight the attractiveness of the gateway. A parallel can be seen with the Lean&Green

programme. This approach, developed in the Netherlands, has spread to other countries and encourages companies to reduce their CO

2 emissions.

Use of the “Sustainable Freight Gateway” label at a European level is aimed at promoting cooperation and defending shared interests through lobbying actions which will allow a network of “sustainable gateways” to be created and of which, Seine Gateway®, could be part.

Seine Gateway®

Weastflows is producing its first impacts: Seine Gateway® is recognised as an essential link in the Atlantic Corridor

Developing a network of sustainable European gateways

AURH - Urban Planning Agency of Le Havre and Seine Estuary area4 quai Guillaume Le Testu - 76063 Le Havre cedex - Tel: +33(0)235421788 - aurh@aurh.fr - www.aurh.frContact: Juliette Duszynski, Project leader in strategy, economic and port development, European projectswww.weastflows.com / www.aurhinweastflows.com

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The new European Union policy for transport infrastructures, made public in October 2013, lists priorities that the Weastflows project share as goals, thus justifying, if still necessary, the interest of this project once again: construction of missing links, resorption of bottlenecks, development of intermodal connections and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

The Seine River Valley, a key European element

Having the Seine River Valley recognised as a key link in the Atlantic Corridor is a first territorial victory, as this appears for the first time on European Union maps. Development of transport infrastructures, and in particular, modes which are alternatives to roadways, has become a priority and synonym of European investments.

Remaining connected in the European economic core

The Atlantic Corridor links Lisbon to Madrid, Bilbao and Bordeaux in its Southern part, and Le Havre, Rouen and Paris to Metz, Strasbourg, and Mannheim in its West-East part. It gives the Seine River Valley the opportunity to be connected to the European economic core, which is currently shifting towards the East, towards countries with GDP growth rates amongst the highest in Europe, such as Poland and the Czech Republic.

Dynamics to be continued

This new European map is the symbol of the recognition of work carried out since 2010 to develop the Seine River

Valley: the Paris-Normandy New Railway Line (PNNL), the Serqueux-Gisors railway line electrification project as well as development projects for the Le Havre, Rouen and Paris ports,

including the Achères Port.

It justifies the continuation of dynamics undertaken complying with the logic of a corridor.

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ThenewTrans-EuropeantransportnetworkmappublishedbytheEuropeanCommissioninOctober,2013representingcorridorstobedeveloppedinpriority(source:EuropeanCommission,TENtec)

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Going beyond the traditional European statistical division

The European Union statistical system is based on a shared territorial division called NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics). This nomenclature has three stages of division, from NUTS 1 to NUTS 3, which are based on administrative divisions of member States correlated to their population weight. Because of this, there are large divergences from one country to another, in particular in terms of areas, which generates disequilibrium when comparing two zones between themselves

(cf. illustration below). Because of this, AURH has decided to analyse transport networks using a grid analysis method. The goal is to allow a correct analysis of infrastructures by going beyond the effects created by territorial divisions.

A more precise territorial division

AURH has designed a specific territorial division that splits the North-West Europe area into 1,290 squares of 800 km2 each, which is much more precise than NUTS, which divides the same area into 485 NUTS 3 units, with an average

area of 1,650 km2. The size chosen corresponds to the area of the smallest German administrative division, which is equivalent to districts or city districts.

Increasing analytical possibilities

Each square brings information resulting from crossing it with transport infrastructures.With a grid analysis method, it is possible to:

exceed limitations of administrative divisions or traditional statistics;

supply a homogeneous

data repository with which each area can be compared objectively;

cross reference data.

Applied to the analysis of transport networks, this method highlights the concentrations of infrastructures, points out congested zones as well as areas relevant for the development of intermodality. It clearly shows the continuities and discontinuities of the network.

Deliverable 2 is the second stage in work carried out by AURH for Weastflows, following the Atlas of the main freight transport infrastructures in North-West Europe, published in June, 2013.

Using the GIS dedicated to freight transport infrastructures

This deliverable uses data from the Geographical Information System (GIS), designed by AURH and completed with the assistance of all Weastflows partners. Data from this GIS is now considered as a reference and a free of charge source of information on freight transport in North-West Europe. OpenStreetMap is the base-line repository. It has been designed and enriched to respond to Weastflows’ requirements.

Analysing the sustainability of the infrastructure network

Deliverable 2 analyses the potential sustainability of freight transport infrastructures in response to the key question of the ability of the current and future network to facilitate modal shift.

It includes a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the network dedicated to freight transport.

It also gives information on the existing interactions between the North-West European regions thanks to the use of a freight flow matrix. This matrix was designed by the Scottish partner SEStran, in the framework of Action 4 of

the Weastflows project on the analysis of freight demand. AURH integrated it into the Geographical Information System for a spatial analysis.

Supporting geographical and analytical reading

For this deliverable, AURH designed a method that uses GIS spatial analysis tools regarding the infrastructure network:

developing grid variation analysis

for geographical reading and highlighting of network concentrations;

definition of indicators to show strengths and

weaknesses;

cartography of goods exchanges and interactions

between North-West Europe regions for a preliminary matching with infrastructures.

Focus on the grid analysis methodAURH’s role in Weastflows, the expertise of geographical information: progress report on Action 1

AURH is one of the 22 partners in the Weastflows project (INTERREG IVB programme), which involves seven countries: Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium. Weastflows is the contraction of the words “flow,” “west” and “east.” To face the congestion in the Northern Range ports and on the North-South routes, the goals of this project are to facilitate modal shift whilst encouraging the development of West-East corridors for goods and freight transportation.

AURH is leading Action 1: “Assessment of sustainable transport capacities,” one of the 12 actions in the project. Work carried out by AURH concerns knowledge and analysis of the dedicated freight transport infrastructure network. As a European repository of data dedicated to freight transport does not exist, AURH is basing its work on the implementation of a Geographical Information System (GIS) covering the seven countries in North-West Europe, and on open data from the OpenStreetMap participative cartography project.

Four deliverables have been planned: • an atlas of goods transport infrastructures (published in June, 2013);• an analysis showing the characteristics of the North-West European transport system (cf. focus below); • an identification of bottlenecks and blocking points impeding the development of sustainable freight transport;• a forward-looking analysis on regional recommendations to optimise the circulation of goods and promote modal shift.

ATLASMajor North-West Europeanfreight infrastructures

Weastflows project - Action 1 - Deliverable 1 - June 2013

GeoWeastflows platformNovember 2013 - The interactive cartography tool developed by the Henri Tudor Public Research Centre in Luxembourg and AURH can be accessed free of charge through a simple registration at: http://geo.weastflows.eu

Seine Gateway® 1.0 Artis t’s rendition and preview of the Seine Gateway®

and key elements of its roll-out

The Atlas of North-West Europe freight transport infrastructuresJune 2013 - 47 maps bringing together context maps, maps by transport mode and regional maps.

Seine Gateway® ReportOctober, 2012 - Presentation of foreign gateways, definition of a model applied to the Seine River Valley, description of Seine Gateway® and its roll-out stages.

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Focus on Action 1 led by AURH

The Weastflows project accompanies on-going dynamics in North-West Europe through use of lobbying as a springboard for multiplier effects in its areas and for concerned stakeholders. By identifying new railway, maritime or river routes for freight, Weastflows can create new development opportunities.

Several investments, projects or regional services already begun in the Seine Gateway® area, will thus be strengthened and returns will be maximised. It includes (a non-exhaustive list):

1/ the increase of the Le Havre port equipment capacity thanks to Port 2000 which will allow to double freight container traffic;

2/ improvement of navigation conditions to access ports along the Seine River (improving maritime access to the port of Rouen, modernisation of navigation locks, etc.);

3/ the Paris-Normandy New railway Line Project (LNPN);

4/ the Le Havre port multimodal platform to increase flows and optimise railway and river links and traffic;

5/ the South Seine River multimodal platform project (municipality of Rouen);

6/ the Pîtres, Le Manoir/Alizay multimodal platform project;

7/ the port of Achères downstream from Paris and including a multimodal platform, the South Seine River and

Seine Andelle platforms upstream from Rouen, which will create added value along the entire Seine River;

8/ the direct railway link between Port 2000 and Le Havre – Paris line;

9/ modernisation of the Serqueux-Gisors railway line dedicated to freight transport as an alternative to the Le Havre-Rouen-Paris line;

10/ improving connectivity between Seine Estuary port terminal equipment in order to strengthen the positioning of the Normandy port complex as an international maritime platform;

11/ the Seine-Escault Canal;

12/ the development of short distance maritime links with

the United Kingdom and Ireland (for example: the Dieppe/Newhaven, Le Havre/Portsmouth, Rouen-Radicatel / Dublin lines) and railway lines to Germany;

13/ development of added value supply chain services with the VIALOG cluster in Dieppe.

AURH is one of the 22 partners involved in the Weastflows project which concerns seven countries: Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium. More precisely, AURH is leading Action 1 (“Assessment of sustainable transport capacities”) in the 12 actions this project includes.

Work done by AURH in the framework of Action 1 will include four deliverables:1/ an atlas mapping freight transport infrastructures (validated by the European instances in March, 2013);2/ an analysis of the characteristics of the North-West European transport system;3/ an identification and an analysis of bottlenecks and blocking points impeding the development of sustainable freight transport;4/ a forward-looking analysis on territorial recommendations aiming to optimise the circulation of goods and facilitate modal shift.

The European Weastflows project, a contraction of the words “flow,” “west” and “east,” is an integral part in the framework of the INTERREG IVB programme for North-Western Europe. This four-year programme (2011 - 2014), was recognised by the European Commission as strategic initiative project.

Weastflows aims to create in Europe a new West-Eastern transport corridor including the Seine River Valley. With a strong environmental dimension, the goal of this project is also to promote modal shift from roadways towards more sustainable modes, thanks to the development of innovative technologies as well as the creation or optimisation of new transport infrastructures.

Weastflows is based on two facts. The first one concerns the progressive saturation of the historic North-South corridors stemming from the Northern Range ports, in spite of heavier and heavier investments to improve their fluidity. The second concerns the fact that one of the North-West Europe area is not linked to the main European freight corridors, in particular Normandy and its ports.On a local basis, stakes include linking Normandy and its

Le Havre and Rouen ports to the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), enlarging their hinterlands towards the East and connecting the various gateways, identified in Weastflows, between themselves: Seine Gateway®, Thames Gateway (London, Kent, Essex), Liverpool Atlantic Gateway (Liverpool, Manchester), Duisburg Gateway and Luxembourg Gateway. More generally speaking, Weastflows will contribute to a new European geography

in which Normandy, Seine Gateway®, and ports on the Seine River Valley will become pivots, allowing them to capture and organise the flow of goods and freight.

By making Seine Gateway® a part of European networks, Weastflows facilitates its opening towards the World as well as its recognition as a powerful and necessary element in the European economy.

Weastflows continues work that

has already been undertaken, such as the “Western Link” project supported by the C8 (Conference of the 8 regions in the Paris basin) with the goal of progressively linking the Paris basin to the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).

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An overhead view of the Le Havre multiple mode platform construction site (© Le Havre Port)

Weastflows: making Seine Gateway® one of the key access route for freight transport in North-West Europe

An overhead view of Port 2000 (© Le Havre Port)

The Paris-Normandy New Line Project (© Réseau Ferré de France) Modernisation of the Serqueux-Gisors railway line (© Réseau Ferré de France)

Weastflows : a leverage effect on Seine River Valley projects

AURH - Urban Planning Agency of Le Havre and Seine Estuary area4 quai Guillaume Le Testu - 76063 Le Havre cedex - Tel: +33(0)235421788 - aurh@aurh.fr - www.aurh.frContact: Juliette Duszynski, Project leader in strategy, economic and port development, European projectsFor further information on Weastflows, please log onto our dedicated internet site: www.weastflows.com as well as AURH’s blog: www.aurhinweastflows.com

Geostrategic position of the Seine Gateway® at a European scale (source: AURH)

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Seine Gateway® PosterApril, 2012 - Document presenting Seine Gateway® as a globally connected, high level of services territory.

Note on stage N° 1June, 2013 - First four page flyer including an intermediary progress report on AURH’s actions in the Weastflows project.

Focus on the 2nd deliverable of Action 1: assessment of freight transport infrastructures in North-West Europe

Weastflows project - Action 1 - Deliverable 2 - September 2014

ANALYTICAL ATLASFreight transport in North-West Europe, territorial dynamics, infrastructures and interregional exchanges

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Going beyond the traditional European statistical division

The European Union statistical system is based on a shared territorial division called NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics). This nomenclature has three stages of division, from NUTS 1 to NUTS 3, which are based on administrative divisions of member States correlated to their population weight. Because of this, there are large divergences from one country to another, in particular in terms of areas, which generates disequilibrium when comparing two zones between themselves

(cf. illustration below). Because of this, AURH has decided to analyse transport networks using a grid analysis method. The goal is to allow a correct analysis of infrastructures by going beyond the effects created by territorial divisions.

A more precise territorial division

AURH has designed a specific territorial division that splits the North-West Europe area into 1,290 squares of 800 km2 each, which is much more precise than NUTS, which divides the same area into 485 NUTS 3 units, with an average

area of 1,650 km2. The size chosen corresponds to the area of the smallest German administrative division, which is equivalent to districts or city districts.

Increasing analytical possibilities

Each square brings information resulting from crossing it with transport infrastructures.With a grid analysis method, it is possible to:

exceed limitations of administrative divisions or traditional statistics;

supply a homogeneous

data repository with which each area can be compared objectively;

cross reference data.

Applied to the analysis of transport networks, this method highlights the concentrations of infrastructures, points out congested zones as well as areas relevant for the development of intermodality. It clearly shows the continuities and discontinuities of the network.

Deliverable 2 is the second stage in work carried out by AURH for Weastflows, following the Atlas of the main freight transport infrastructures in North-West Europe, published in June, 2013.

Using the GIS dedicated to freight transport infrastructures

This deliverable uses data from the Geographical Information System (GIS), designed by AURH and completed with the assistance of all Weastflows partners. Data from this GIS is now considered as a reference and a free of charge source of information on freight transport in North-West Europe. OpenStreetMap is the base-line repository. It has been designed and enriched to respond to Weastflows’ requirements.

Analysing the sustainability of the infrastructure network

Deliverable 2 analyses the potential sustainability of freight transport infrastructures in response to the key question of the ability of the current and future network to facilitate modal shift.

It includes a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the network dedicated to freight transport.

It also gives information on the existing interactions between the North-West European regions thanks to the use of a freight flow matrix. This matrix was designed by the Scottish partner SEStran, in the framework of Action 4 of

the Weastflows project on the analysis of freight demand. AURH integrated it into the Geographical Information System for a spatial analysis.

Supporting geographical and analytical reading

For this deliverable, AURH designed a method that uses GIS spatial analysis tools regarding the infrastructure network:

developing grid variation analysis

for geographical reading and highlighting of network concentrations;

definition of indicators to show strengths and

weaknesses;

cartography of goods exchanges and interactions

between North-West Europe regions for a preliminary matching with infrastructures.

Focus on the grid analysis methodAURH’s role in Weastflows, the expertise of geographical information: progress report on Action 1

AURH is one of the 22 partners in the Weastflows project (INTERREG IVB programme), which involves seven countries: Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium. Weastflows is the contraction of the words “flow,” “west” and “east.” To face the congestion in the Northern Range ports and on the North-South routes, the goals of this project are to facilitate modal shift whilst encouraging the development of West-East corridors for goods and freight transportation.

AURH is leading Action 1: “Assessment of sustainable transport capacities,” one of the 12 actions in the project. Work carried out by AURH concerns knowledge and analysis of the dedicated freight transport infrastructure network. As a European repository of data dedicated to freight transport does not exist, AURH is basing its work on the implementation of a Geographical Information System (GIS) covering the seven countries in North-West Europe, and on open data from the OpenStreetMap participative cartography project.

Four deliverables have been planned: • an atlas of goods transport infrastructures (published in June, 2013);• an analysis showing the characteristics of the North-West European transport system (cf. focus below); • an identification of bottlenecks and blocking points impeding the development of sustainable freight transport;• a forward-looking analysis on regional recommendations to optimise the circulation of goods and promote modal shift.

ATLASMajor North-West Europeanfreight infrastructures

Weastflows project - Action 1 - Deliverable 1 - June 2013

GeoWeastflows platformNovember 2013 - The interactive cartography tool developed by the Henri Tudor Public Research Centre in Luxembourg and AURH can be accessed free of charge through a simple registration at: http://geo.weastflows.eu

Seine Gateway® 1.0 Artis t’s rendition and preview of the Seine Gateway®

and key elements of its roll-out

The Atlas of North-West Europe freight transport infrastructuresJune 2013 - 47 maps bringing together context maps, maps by transport mode and regional maps.

Seine Gateway® ReportOctober, 2012 - Presentation of foreign gateways, definition of a model applied to the Seine River Valley, description of Seine Gateway® and its roll-out stages.

Weastflows - a European project serving Seine Gateway®

June 2013 NA 5594/JD/LA/MM/JFM

Focus on Action 1 led by AURH

The Weastflows project accompanies on-going dynamics in North-West Europe through use of lobbying as a springboard for multiplier effects in its areas and for concerned stakeholders. By identifying new railway, maritime or river routes for freight, Weastflows can create new development opportunities.

Several investments, projects or regional services already begun in the Seine Gateway® area, will thus be strengthened and returns will be maximised. It includes (a non-exhaustive list):

1/ the increase of the Le Havre port equipment capacity thanks to Port 2000 which will allow to double freight container traffic;

2/ improvement of navigation conditions to access ports along the Seine River (improving maritime access to the port of Rouen, modernisation of navigation locks, etc.);

3/ the Paris-Normandy New railway Line Project (LNPN);

4/ the Le Havre port multimodal platform to increase flows and optimise railway and river links and traffic;

5/ the South Seine River multimodal platform project (municipality of Rouen);

6/ the Pîtres, Le Manoir/Alizay multimodal platform project;

7/ the port of Achères downstream from Paris and including a multimodal platform, the South Seine River and

Seine Andelle platforms upstream from Rouen, which will create added value along the entire Seine River;

8/ the direct railway link between Port 2000 and Le Havre – Paris line;

9/ modernisation of the Serqueux-Gisors railway line dedicated to freight transport as an alternative to the Le Havre-Rouen-Paris line;

10/ improving connectivity between Seine Estuary port terminal equipment in order to strengthen the positioning of the Normandy port complex as an international maritime platform;

11/ the Seine-Escault Canal;

12/ the development of short distance maritime links with

the United Kingdom and Ireland (for example: the Dieppe/Newhaven, Le Havre/Portsmouth, Rouen-Radicatel / Dublin lines) and railway lines to Germany;

13/ development of added value supply chain services with the VIALOG cluster in Dieppe.

AURH is one of the 22 partners involved in the Weastflows project which concerns seven countries: Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium. More precisely, AURH is leading Action 1 (“Assessment of sustainable transport capacities”) in the 12 actions this project includes.

Work done by AURH in the framework of Action 1 will include four deliverables:1/ an atlas mapping freight transport infrastructures (validated by the European instances in March, 2013);2/ an analysis of the characteristics of the North-West European transport system;3/ an identification and an analysis of bottlenecks and blocking points impeding the development of sustainable freight transport;4/ a forward-looking analysis on territorial recommendations aiming to optimise the circulation of goods and facilitate modal shift.

The European Weastflows project, a contraction of the words “flow,” “west” and “east,” is an integral part in the framework of the INTERREG IVB programme for North-Western Europe. This four-year programme (2011 - 2014), was recognised by the European Commission as strategic initiative project.

Weastflows aims to create in Europe a new West-Eastern transport corridor including the Seine River Valley. With a strong environmental dimension, the goal of this project is also to promote modal shift from roadways towards more sustainable modes, thanks to the development of innovative technologies as well as the creation or optimisation of new transport infrastructures.

Weastflows is based on two facts. The first one concerns the progressive saturation of the historic North-South corridors stemming from the Northern Range ports, in spite of heavier and heavier investments to improve their fluidity. The second concerns the fact that one of the North-West Europe area is not linked to the main European freight corridors, in particular Normandy and its ports.On a local basis, stakes include linking Normandy and its

Le Havre and Rouen ports to the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), enlarging their hinterlands towards the East and connecting the various gateways, identified in Weastflows, between themselves: Seine Gateway®, Thames Gateway (London, Kent, Essex), Liverpool Atlantic Gateway (Liverpool, Manchester), Duisburg Gateway and Luxembourg Gateway. More generally speaking, Weastflows will contribute to a new European geography

in which Normandy, Seine Gateway®, and ports on the Seine River Valley will become pivots, allowing them to capture and organise the flow of goods and freight.

By making Seine Gateway® a part of European networks, Weastflows facilitates its opening towards the World as well as its recognition as a powerful and necessary element in the European economy.

Weastflows continues work that

has already been undertaken, such as the “Western Link” project supported by the C8 (Conference of the 8 regions in the Paris basin) with the goal of progressively linking the Paris basin to the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).

Bern

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English Channel

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Atlantic ocean

North-west Europe area (Weastflows studied area)

West-east transport corridorto be developed

Opening strategy of North RangePorts toward the east of Europe

Shift of Europe gravity center towards the east

«Blue Banana», historic economicheart of Europe«Orange Pumpkin», intense area ofeconomic development

Historic transportation corridorsbecoming saturated

Strait of Nord-pas-de-Calais,area of intense maritime traffic

Seine Gateway® wide area

Maritime entrance andexitway of goods

Seine Gateway®

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Geostrategic position of Seine Gateway® at a European level

An overhead view of the Le Havre multiple mode platform construction site (© Le Havre Port)

Weastflows: making Seine Gateway® one of the key access route for freight transport in North-West Europe

An overhead view of Port 2000 (© Le Havre Port)

The Paris-Normandy New Line Project (© Réseau Ferré de France) Modernisation of the Serqueux-Gisors railway line (© Réseau Ferré de France)

Weastflows : a leverage effect on Seine River Valley projects

AURH - Urban Planning Agency of Le Havre and Seine Estuary area4 quai Guillaume Le Testu - 76063 Le Havre cedex - Tel: +33(0)235421788 - aurh@aurh.fr - www.aurh.frContact: Juliette Duszynski, Project leader in strategy, economic and port development, European projectsFor further information on Weastflows, please log onto our dedicated internet site: www.weastflows.com as well as AURH’s blog: www.aurhinweastflows.com

Geostrategic position of the Seine Gateway® at a European scale (source: AURH)

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Seine Gateway® PosterApril, 2012 - Document presenting Seine Gateway® as a globally connected, high level of services territory.

Note on stage N° 1June, 2013 - First four page flyer including an intermediary progress report on AURH’s actions in the Weastflows project.

Focus on the 2nd deliverable of Action 1: assessment of freight transport infrastructures in North-West Europe

Weastflows project - Action 1 - Deliverable 2 - September 2014

ANALYTICAL ATLASFreight transport in North-West Europe, territorial dynamics, infrastructures and interregional exchanges

The2nddeliverableisavailablefromSeptember,2014

FromNUTS3divisiontogriddivision

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AURH publications can be accessed on the www.aurhinweastflows.com blog

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Weastflows - a European project serving Seine Gateway®

July 2014 NA 5702/JD/LA/MM/JFM

Focus on progress made by AURH

Weastflows offers the possibility of promoting Seine Gateway® in Europe whilst positioning it alongside other European gateways, in particular through Action 3. This action focuses on the development of sustainable gateway systems across North West Europe. It aims to support policy integration to better sustainable connectivity.

Six gateways studied

In the framework of Action 3, six gateways are being studied. Four gateways are located at the intersection between maritime and terrestrial flows: • Shannon Limerick Gateway;• Liverpool / Manchester

Gateway; • Thames Gateway;• Seine Gateway®. Two gateways are located in an intersection between multiple mode terrestrial flows: • Luxembourg Gateway;• Duisburg Gateway. Each gateway has a different level of maturity and its own qualities to enhance the development of sustainable freight logistics systems.

A shared definition of a “sustainable freight gateway”

A “Sustainable Freight Gateway” refers to a city or a region which has a logistics ecosystem that contributes to economic development and social well-being, whilst having a limited environmental impact. The base of a sustainable freight gateway is a network of multiple mode infrastructures and public policies which support a commitment to more sustainability (reduction of CO

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emissions, development of multimodal transport solutions, support for innovation, etc.).

A toolkit for Public Policies

In this context, MWRA (Mid-West Region Authority)*, the Irish partner leading Action 3, has worked with other partners who support gateway projects. Together, they have designed a toolkit for public and private decision-makers to help them define their policies concerning freight transport and logistics and help them achieve sustainable gateways. Amongst the tools developed are a label, as well as a “sustainable freight gateway” logo.

*Action 3 has been led since July, 2014 by Limerick city and County Council (LCCC). It replaced MWRA as Weastflows partner.

This label turns sustainable logistics into a competitive advantage

Each partner, including AURH, is invited to use this label as a business card to promote its own gateway. The goal of this label is to encourage the development of more sustainable logistics and to highlight the attractiveness of the gateway. A parallel can be seen with the Lean&Green

programme. This approach, developed in the Netherlands, has spread to other countries and encourages companies to reduce their CO

2 emissions.

Use of the “Sustainable Freight Gateway” label at a European level is aimed at promoting cooperation and defending shared interests through lobbying actions which will allow a network of “sustainable gateways” to be created and of which, Seine Gateway®, could be part.

Seine Gateway®

Weastflows is producing its first impacts: Seine Gateway® is recognised as an essential link in the Atlantic Corridor

Developing a network of sustainable European gateways

AURH - Urban Planning Agency of Le Havre and Seine Estuary area4 quai Guillaume Le Testu - 76063 Le Havre cedex - Tel: +33(0)235421788 - aurh@aurh.fr - www.aurh.frContact: Juliette Duszynski, Project leader in strategy, economic and port development, European projectswww.weastflows.com / www.aurhinweastflows.com

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The new European Union policy for transport infrastructures, made public in October 2013, lists priorities that the Weastflows project share as goals, thus justifying, if still necessary, the interest of this project once again: construction of missing links, resorption of bottlenecks, development of intermodal connections and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

The Seine River Valley, a key European element

Having the Seine River Valley recognised as a key link in the Atlantic Corridor is a first territorial victory, as this appears for the first time on European Union maps. Development of transport infrastructures, and in particular, modes which are alternatives to roadways, has become a priority and synonym of European investments.

Remaining connected in the European economic core

The Atlantic Corridor links Lisbon to Madrid, Bilbao and Bordeaux in its Southern part, and Le Havre, Rouen and Paris to Metz, Strasbourg, and Mannheim in its West-East part. It gives the Seine River Valley the opportunity to be connected to the European economic core, which is currently shifting towards the East, towards countries with GDP growth rates amongst the highest in Europe, such as Poland and the Czech Republic.

Dynamics to be continued

This new European map is the symbol of the recognition of work carried out since 2010 to develop the Seine River

Valley: the Paris-Normandy New Railway Line (PNNL), the Serqueux-Gisors railway line electrification project as well as development projects for the Le Havre, Rouen and Paris ports,

including the Achères Port.

It justifies the continuation of dynamics undertaken complying with the logic of a corridor.

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Maritime gateways

«Terrestrial» gateways

Gateways studied in Weastflows

Shannon/Limerick Gateway

Liverpool/Manchester Gateway

Thames Gateway

Seine Gateway®

Luxembourg Gateway

Duisburg Gateway

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Data source ©Boudaries ©MBR and EuroGeographics,©ESRI Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbl ®AURH -2013/06

Thelogodevelopedtoaccompanythe“sustainablefreightgateway”labeland

thespecificSeineGateway®logo(Sources:Weastflowsproject,

rolledoutbyMWRA)

ThenewTrans-EuropeantransportnetworkmappublishedbytheEuropeanCommissioninOctober,2013representingcorridorstobedeveloppedinpriority(source:EuropeanCommission,TENtec)

LocationofgatewaysstudiedintheWeastflowsproject(Sources:Weastflowsproject,AURHprocessing)

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