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The former military airfield, today the startkLahr Airport & Business Park Raum Lahr with its 600 ha lies in the border triangle of Switzerland, France and Germany. The region of Lahr is situated in the south-west of Germany where the intermodal traffic link of the future trans-European Transport Network is available: rail, waterway, road and airway. The city of Lahr and the development agency IGZ/startkLahr have commissioned a feasibility study, co-financed by the European Union, researching the potential of the combination from area and transport infrastructure and the establishment of a multimodal node in Lahr. This study analyzes the framework, the added value and the impacts of a multimodal logistics service centre in the starkLahr Airport & Business Park Raum Lahr. The analysis focuses on three main issues:
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Analysis of the market potential including a competitor analysis and an analysis of the potentially qualified area
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Economic effects in the region
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Analysis of a qualified operator model, layout model and operational concept
The quantitative analysis comes to the conclusion that the installation of an intermodal logistics terminal in the startkLahr Airport & Business Park is realizable. From the perspective of the economy, the study predicts an added value for the whole region resulting from the terminal operation and the improved regional logistics service.
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Members of the special purpose association are: apart from the city of Lahr and the municipality Friesenheim, the Ortenaukreis, the towns of Ettenheim, Mahlberg as well as the municipalities of Meißenheim, Schwanau, Ringsheim, Rust, Kippenheim, Seelbach and Schuttertal.
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Proprietors are: City of Lahr, municipality Friesenheim, the administration union “Industrie- und Gewerbepark Raum Lahr” and the Ortenau district, see: www.startklahr.biz.
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Bundesgesetz (federal law) über die Verlagerung des alpenquerenden Güterschwerverkehrs von der Strasse auf die Schiene (Güterverlagerungsgesetz, GVVG) of 19 December 2008 (as on 1 January 2010).
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The sidings will be repeatedly supplied with train sets during the day.
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The effective length of the set of carriages is 700 m and corresponds to a train length with two engines a train length of 750 m.
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“German directive (administrative regulation) on promoting terminals for combined transport by companies that are not state-owned”.
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cf. Website of the (German) Federal Railway Agency: http://www.eba.bund.de/DE/SubNavi/Recht/GesetzeRegelwerk/TSI/tsi_node.html: “To implement a safe and interoperable, that is a technically compatible European railway system, so-called Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI) have been introduced both for high speed traffic as well as for conventional traffic. These TSI include the specifications and test procedures for interoperability components and subsystems.”
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Ibert, M., Halter, D. (2016). On the Way to a better Interoperability in the Upper Rhine. In: Drewello, H., Scholl, B. (eds) Integrated Spatial and Transport Infrastructure Development. Contributions to Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15708-5_14
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