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The intention to carry out a complete and exhaustive approach
recommends to limit the geographic coverage of the research. In
this regard, the Western Mediterranean region provides an
existing regional co-operation experience and institutional
support that is very useful for the objectives of the project.
For this reason, research will
concentrate on the Western Mediterranean.
In any case, DESTIN takes into account the Euro-Mediterranean
context and contributes to research in the whole Mediterranean
region by ensuring dissemination of the project results among
all EU and Mediterranean Partner countries.
Specific scientific and technological objectives are:
- Research on current and future multimodal transport chains
and transport interoperability between the Maghreb countries
and between each country in that region and EU and
Mediterranean countries.
- To develop and apply specific computerised models to
forecast international passenger and freight traffic in the
Western Mediterranean, supported by an operational geographic
information system (GIS) and a sustainable database.
- Based on the above outputs, to propose and apply methods
and criteria to identify a strategic transport network in the
Western Mediterranean and evaluate priorities for its
development.
- To design an executive decision-support system to easily
revise the identification of the priorities.
- To involve key international and national institutions
(such as transport ministries) throughout the process, in
order to check that sustainable and practical tools are
developed and realistic needs and constraints are taken into
account.
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