Motorways of the Sea European Style (MOSES)

MOSES presents a European R&D Project in the context of the 6th Research Framework Programme (FP6) of the European Commission that as a main goal aims to develop a blue print establishing the detailed criteria and conditions for developing an innovative European network of Motorways of the Sea (MoS) as part of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). The MOSES blue print will target, through the development of Motorways of the Sea, an increase in the share of Short Sea Shipping in the European Union transport market from 43% to 56% by 2020, i.e. an increase of 30% and an accompanying increase in intermodal transport.

The MOSES Objectives can be specified into the foll owing four core objectives:

 •To develop all the research actions necessary for underpinning a marketing strategy to make available MoS the obvious mode for freight transport by user and key decision makers

•To produce a comprehensive and validated methodology for developing quality MoS services with seamless junctions at modal transfer nodes through integration of technology with organisational, economic and regula tory aspects

•To assess the impacts of the MOSES innovations and resulting policy recommendations, and of their deployment at EU-side scale and to develop tools to assess and certify MOS services

•To produce a blueprint for designing and implementing at EU scale efficient, safe and secure Motorways of the Sea that achieve a massive modal shift from road freight transport, verified and validated through business case Demonstrators.

Type of services provided

• European Research.

• Data Collection / Best Practices for SSS-intermodal transport cases.

• Intermodal Transport Chain / Door to Door Analysis.

• Innovation.

• Dissemination and Marketing Actions.

• Policy Recommendations.