This chapter has explored the concept of Green Corridors in European Surface
Freight logistics by highlighting the main issues and by describing the means by
which these issues can be tackled. The objectives, approach and some partial
results of the EU project SuperGreen have been outlined. It is clear that more
results will be available after this book has been published. Those results will be
available on the project’s web site.
Effort on this project is ongoing and is scheduled to continue in the foreseeable
future. (What is not included here will be reported in subsequent publications.) In
view of important policy implications and of the need of policy makers to be able
to evaluate alternatives in an effective way, methods and tools specifically
designed to tackle such problems seem more required than ever. It is hoped that
studies such as the one described herein will help toward that goal.