ESPON TRACC: Transport Accessibility at Regional/Local Scale and Patterns in Europe (2010-2014)

The ESPON project TRACC (Transport Accessibility at Regional/Local Scale and Patterns in Europe) aimed at taking up and updating the results of existing studies on accessibility at the European scale, to extend the range of accessibility indicators by further indicators responding to new policy questions, to extend the spatial resolution of accessibility indicators and to explore the likely impacts of policies at the European and national scale to improve global, European and regional accessibility in the light of new challenges, such as globalisation, energy scarcity and climate change. Project partners were the Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic, RRG Spatial Planning and Geoinformation, Oldenburg, Germany, Mcrit, Barcelona, Spain, the University of Oulu, Finland, TRT Trasporti e Territorio, Milan, Italy and the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. More information on the page ESPON TRACC.

TRACC case study regions

The results of the project are contained in compact form in:

Spiekermann, K., Wegener, M., Kveton, V., Marada, M., Schürmann, C., Biosca, O., Ulied Segui, A., Antikainen, H., Kotavaara, O., Rusanen, J., Bielanska, D., Fiorello, D., Komornicki, T., Rosik, P., Stepniak, M. (2015): Transport Accessibility at Regional/Local Scale and Patterns in Europe. TRACC Executive Summary and Final Report. Luxemburg: ESPON.

The detailed results include:

Spiekermann, K., Wegener, M., Kveton, V., Marada, M., Schürmann, C., Biosca, O., Ulied Segui, A., Antikainen, H., Kotavaara, O., Rusanen, J., Bielanska, D., Fiorello, D., Komornicki, T., Rosik, P., Stepniak, M. (2015): Transport Accessibility at Regional Scale in Europe TRACC Scientific Report. Luxemburg: ESPON.

An overview of the seven case studies is available in Transport Accessibility at Regional Scale in Europe TRACC Regional Case Study Book. The case studies themselves can be downloaded from the TRACC website.

The results of the TRACC project have also been published in a special issue Transport Accessibility at Regional Scale in Europe of the journal EUROPA XXI of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organisation of the Polish Academy of Sciences.