Cross-Border Transport and Mobility in the EU - A new open access book just published!

A newly published book “Cross-Border Transport and Mobility in the EU” is now available with open access and in three different language versions, English, Italian and Slovenian.

Despite the intense commitment and actions taken by the EU as well as by national governments and regions, much remains to be done to dissolve all the barriers to cross-border mobility of people. Issues are not only infrastructural but also related to administrative and planning coordination. Cross-border mobility planning and management is a central issue in EU cohesion policies.

This theme was therefore launched as a call for chapter and then discussed as the subject of an international workshop organised in late 2020 as part of the CROSSMOBY(link is external) project, funded by Interreg Italy-Slovenia V-A 2014-2020. The book is published by Edizioni Cà Foscari – Digital Publishing (October 2021), and brings together some of the contributions from that conference.

The aim of this book, edited by Aljaž Plevnik and Tom Rye, is to provide an overview of what has already been done and what are the next priorities, as a first step of a (hopefully long) series of contributions from both academic and practitioners on cross-border passenger transport and mobility. Such topics are examined according to several different perspectives:

• from the framework of EU regulations and policies to the projects funded and implemented in the last EU programming period on cross-border transport and mobility topic;
• from the application of SUMPs to the recognition of the territorial context and the state of the art of strategic mobility planning in the municipalities of the Italy-Slovenia cross-border area.

In addition to the full pdf version of the book, individual chapters can also be downloaded, clicking on the following links:

• Preface
• Overview on the Evolution of the Regulatory Framework for Cross-Border Mobility in Europe (Amrutha Kollamkuzhi Dharman)
• EU Cross-Border Projects in Transport and Mobility - An Overview of 2014-20 Programming Period (Giuseppe Mella)
• The Need for Regional and Cross-Border Approach in Mobility Planning - Analysis of Local SUMPs in Slovenian Municipalities (Luka Mladenovič)
• A SUMP Perspective for Cross-Border Mobility Planning (Pietro Lanzini, Tom Rye, Andrea Stocchetti)  
• From Shared Data Towards Joint Information and Vision - Supporting Cross-Border Transport Management and Planning (Riccardo Maratini, Andrea Ballarin)
• Framing Urban Mobility into a Cross-Border Dimension (Pier Paolo Pentucci)
• Øresund. A Cross-Border Best Practice Above and Below Water (Bertil Hylén)
• Survey on the State of the Art of Transport Governance Tools and Local Sustainable Mobility in the Italy-Slovenia Cross-Border Area (Marco Fasan)