social and spatial planning, consultants, academia and R&D.1 Altogether, they
committed to mobilize resources of more than 3 million Euros, with the European
Commission contributing on the order of 2.6 million Euros. The timetable of the
project is January 2010-January 2013. The project’s web site, www.supergreen
project.eu, includes all deliverables released to the public. That site is also on green
surface logistics in general.
This chapter aims to address the key issues involved in development of Green
Corridors for European Freight Logistics, and give an overview of the project’s
main results during its first year. Because the end of the SuperGreen project was
some 2 years away (at the time of writing), the results described will be only
partial. But these should give a good idea of the problems and challenges involved.
We remark that air transport is outside the scope of SuperGreen, and therefore
also outside the scope of this chapter, which is organized as follows. Section 9.2 is
a state-of-the-art section. A broad overview of the SuperGreen project is provided
in Sect. 9.3. Section 9. 4 discusses the benchmarking of Green Corridors by
describing the corridor selection process and defining Key Performance Indicators
(KPIs). Sections 9.5 and 9.6 respectively present other relevant factors and the
chapter’s conclusions. In Appendix A, we summarize an additional dozen European
Projects, each with some relationship to SuperGreen.