Abstract
In this paper, the development of Motorways of the Sea (MoS) services offered at Italian ports from 2008 to 2015...
Highlights
Motorways of the Sea (MoS) have been proposed in the 2001 White Paper [1] on the European transport policy and have become one of the priority projects of the “Trans European Transport Network” (TEN-T) programme [2]
The analysis has shown that both ro-ro and ro-pax routes show relevant problems in terms of their competitiveness against all-road transport
The average route length and the average travel time have generally increased from 2008 to 2015, in particular, from 2010 to 2015. Both the route length and the average travel times are greater in the low season of 2015 than in the high season of 2015: in the period of low demand, the operators prefer to invest in the routes that call at a greater number of ports, and serve more markets, to increase the load factor of ships
Summary
Motorways of the Sea (MoS) have been proposed in the 2001 White Paper [1] on the European transport policy and have become one of the priority projects of the “Trans European Transport Network” (TEN-T) programme [2]. As reported in the 2011 White Paper [1], road transport has a high accident rate: in the year 2015, 25,075 deaths have occurred on European roads (25,974 in 2014) (Source: Eurostat [9]). For all these reasons, the modal shift, of at least some part of freight transport, to intermodal transport based on Rail or Mos is necessary. First (section 2), the main characteristics of Motorways of the Sea (MoS) services, to and from Italian ports, in 2015 are presented.
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