The TRACECA Atlas has been produced under the project EUROPEAID "Strengthening of Transport Training Capacities in NIS countries (TRACECA)". It is part of the training materials developed in the field of transport planning, investment appraisal and multimodal transportation and interoperability.

The atlas should be considered as training material and as a workdocument. It provides useful information on trade and transport flows, transport chains and intermodal transport and logistics in the TRACECA countries:

Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

The atlas has been developed by a team of NEA experts in close cooperation with NEA Central Asia, NII TK Kazakhstan and the Institute of Transport and Communications (ITC) in Bulgaria with the support of the Permanent Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Commission TRACECA in Baku.

The data presented and forecasts provided are derived from the NEA database and are the full responsibility of NEA.

This atlas provides an overview of the different trade and transport issues in the TRACECA area. The atlas is structured in themes. These themes comprise trade and transport flows, transport policy, transport chains, intermodal transport, logistics, operational procedures, external effects and further issues.

The individual chapters deal with the following issues:

Chapter 1  Trade and transport flows
Chapter 1 describes the relation between economy and transport. It presents the trade and transport flows within and between the TRACECA countries, as well as other countries in Europe, Asia and the rest of the world.

Chapter 2  Passenger transport
Chapter 2 provides an overview of the relation between population and transport. It presents an overview of the population as well as the size and performance of passenger transport.

Chapter 3  Transport policy in TRACECA
Chapter 3 provides background information about the transport policy and strategy in the TRACECA area.

Chapter 4  Transport chains and intermodal transport
Since the 1960s major efforts have been made to integrate separate transport systems through intermodal transport, which took place in several stages. This involves the use of at least two different modes in a trip from origin to destination through an intermodal transport chain. Chapter 4 describes the role of intermodal transport and logistics in the TRACECA area.

Chapter 5  Logistics in TRACECA perspective
With the advent of global supply chains, a new premium is being placed on being able to move goods from A to B rapidly, reliably, and cheaply. Chapter 5 shows how TRACECA countries are doing in the area of trade logistics and discusses some operational procedures.

Chapter 6  External effects of transport in TRACECA
External effects like emissions of CO2 and NOx as well as transport safety issues are discussed in chapter 6.

Chapter 7  Further transport issues
Chapter 7 provides some conclusions and recommendations on the availability of statistics and on transport modelling in the differentTRACECA countries.

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