New perspectives for cross-border mobility: More than twenty experts from five European regions will talk about projects and future visions at a workshop in Innsbruck.
INNSBRUCK, TYROL. Five European regions 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 at the new Euregio campus in Innsbruck. In addition to the Tyrol-Südtirol-Trentino Europaregion, 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 zipline Mobility Provincial Councilor René Zumtobel spoke with attendees at the end of the three-day event about results and specific project ideas.
Euregio Tirol-Südtirol-Trentino shows how it’s done
Exchanges with other Euregions support the development of new concepts and learn from the experiences of othersZumtobel is convinced.
“Euregio Tirol-Südtirol-Trentino has made great strides for its approximately 1.8 million inhabitants in terms of cross-border mobility over the last ten years”,
according to State Councilor Zumtobel. By that he means, among other things, connections without transfers in the Brenner and Puster Valley or cross-border family and student passage. “It is my clear political objective to further improve public mobility – also across borders – and to think beyond national borders”, emphasizes Zumtobel. a look at Number of users of the “Euregio2Plus” daily ticket shows that the demand is definitely there: This was achieved in one year Purchased over 1,800 times. The cross-border Euregio-Ticket Students was purchased more than 2,600 times in the last university year.
Concrete projects under development
Cross-border mobility is not just on the Tyrolean agenda within Euregio. “In its role as co-leader of Action Group 4 Mobility, Euregio Tiro-Südtirol-Trentino is also heavily involved in the EU EUSALP’s Alpine Space Strategy and is therefore also pushing the issue outside 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 elaborated will. These, in turn, will be submitted for funding for the new INTERREG Italy-Austria program until 2027.
In any case, in the future there should be significantly more continuous and direct rail 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 2.5 million trucks and eleven million cars on the Brenner alone. Reducing private motor transport is, among other measures, an important component of unburdening the Brenner corridor – this requires friendly cross-border connections passengers and uniform ticketing”, LR Zumtobel is satisfied with the exchange between the Euregios.
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