Future Transport Pattern and the Sustainable Development of the TINA Network

1. Future Transport Pattern and the Sustainable Development of the TINA Network Oslo Stockholm Liepaja Gothenburg Växjö Karlskrona Klaipeda Kopenhagen Kaunas Gdynia Elbląg City of Gdynia Governor of Pomerania Region City of Wejherowo City of Starogard Gdański Commune of Starogard Gdański Gdańsk Pomerania Development Agancy County of Klaipeda County of Kaunas Municipality of Växjö /on behalf of 30 Swedish and Danish institutions/ Warszawa Bratislava Beograd

2. Several other administrative institutions have expressed their will to collaborate in successive project phases. • They are: • Regional Administration Office of the Pomeranian Region • Regional Administration Office of the Kuyavian Pomeranian Region • municipal authorities of Gdańsk, Toruń and Grudziądz • the Union of Maritime Cities and Communes • Polish State Railways • port authorities of Gdańsk and Gdynia • Stena Line Poland

3. Overarching objectives of the joint INTERREG IIC and Phare/Interreg project: • Identification and spatial analysis of transport corridors, modes and technologies, which support sustainable regional, economic and social development of the Baltic Sea Region; • assessment of an efficient transport system in the South East Baltic Region to comply with sustainable development needs of the considered area • establishment of a transnational spatial and transport planning procedure in order to co-ordinate infrastructure investments in the influenced area – based on findings both of transport and spatial planning researchers.

4. objectives of the project • Formulation of strategies for regional developmentthat will develop benefits resulting from existence of the TINA Corridor VI and crossborder co-operation along its feeder routes • contribution to integration of TINA and TEN networks based on spatial planning tools • contribution to development sustainability in the whole Baltic Sea Region by improving competitiveness of the affected regions located along the TINA Corridor VI axis vs. regions located along the Western Baltic axes: Sweden-Öresund-Germany and Ystad-Świnoujście-Szczecin-Wrocław

5. ... objectives of the project • utilisation of the effect of shortening the time of transport and travel by 30-40% for tourism development and for location of undertakings enhancing the potential of the areas located within the TINA Corridor VI area of influence, as well as the whole South East Baltic Region • estimation of co-operation and competitiveness degree of regions that will gravitate towards the main infrastructural axis of the TINA Corridor VI

6. ... objectives of the project • identification of innovative effects of regional development (e.g. diffusion of innovation, location of technopolises, multimodal services, road-accessible ports, telematic centres for traffic monitoring) • preparation of the joint marketing offer for the regions and municipalities located in the TINA Corridor VI area of influence (incl. Its feeder routes) • provision of a common platform for more detailed transport and spatial planning activities based on a common vision and action plan for selected sectors

7. WORKPACKAGE 1 • Diagnosis of socio-economic situation and scenarios on the transport flows in the TINA Corridor VI • This workpackage is dedicated to identification and assessment of development problems experienced in the municipalities and regions in the transport corridor area of influence, based on inventory data set. • The next step of the work concerns alternative prognoses on passenger and goods flow in the corridor till the year 2020. • The experts are assumed to provide the participants of concluding workshop with possible options for road , rail, sea, inland water and air traffic volumes, taking into consideration prospective economic and demographic trends in Poland and Sweden, and layout of main traffic flows in the Baltic Sea Region, including identification of feeder routes.

8. WORKPACKAGE2 • Regional and sub-regional impact of the TINA Corridor VI • Outcomes of this workpackage should lead directly to the estimation of impact of the transport corridor and its identified feeder routes on its surroundings. • Regional and sub-regional consequences, with benefits and risks, ought to be elaborated and evaluated for the selected scenarios, concerning: environmental impact, economic development in general terms, trade and industry, labour market, energy supply, transport system and share of transport modes, settlement structure, land use patterns, natural resources and cultural landscapes, tourism, welfare, social life, educational level and intermunicipal/interregional co-operation. Analysed scenarios should be placed in between the two cases: • base scenario 2020 - assuming insignificant improvement in the infrastructure of the Zone with simultaneous condensation of the traffic flow across Danish straits • the TINA Corridor VI scenario 2020 - anticipating sustainable development in the areas adjacent to the TINA Corridor VI in effect of positive macroeconomic indices, creation of efficient multimodal transport corridor.

9. WORKPACKAGE 3 • Vision and strategies of development • for the TINA Corridor VI Development Zone • In the course of this workpackage, a shift from rather experts’ work to broader consultations and to common elaboration of vision and strategies for development of the Zone is planned. • Draft document of one common vision on development of the TINA Corridor VI will be based on selected transport flow scenarios, their influence on transport network in the concerned area, socio-economic trends and on case studies. The vision will present a probable impact of the TINA Corridor VI upon physical, economic, social and cultural parameters of the Zone on regional and sub-regional reference level. Successive action plan will, in turn, provide good examples and recommendations for local and regional authorities, referring to: • strategies for developing an efficient and environmentally friendly multimodal transport system, combined of the main Corridor and its feeder routes; • transformations in settlement structure, which would aim at controlling an excessive urban sprawl and at enhancing downtown functions, • selection of utmost criteria for business centres location. • investment strategies in selected economic branches (housing, industry), strategies for protecting valuable natural habitats.

10. Project follow-up: • further integration undertakings between the TINA and TEN networksin the Baltic Sea Region; • co-ordination and revision of infrastructure investment plans, • promotion and co-ordination of intermodal freight centres, • realisation of projects for combined transport, • improved co-operation between the ports in the Southeast Baltic, • completion of analyses on the development of the Zone can be regarded as a case study for the broader-scale strategic plans for regional development which are in the process of preparation; • project results as a corner stone for future regional plans and its revisions, • municipal case studies serving as methodological examples of solving problems of local and sub-regional development resulting from impact of transport infrastructure on its vicinity; • the contents of the project can launch or supplement strategic plans for local development and provide recommendations for studies on conditions and directions of spatial management; • the project will stimulate partnership co-operation between municipalities, regions and other institutions directed at sub-regional and regional development. • concrete decisions on location of investments balancing the state of supporting infrastructure in the TINA Corridor VI and implementation of ‘demonstration projects’