Kick-off meeting of Trust project: a multimodal transport system to reach the main cultural and environmental point of interests

The Kick-off meeting of the project TRUST – “Cooperation foR sUStainable Tranport”, co-funded for 837.000,00 euro by the Interreg V-A Greece-Italy Programme 2014-2020, was held in Gallipoli on 18 December 2018.

The partnership, composed by the Municipality of Gallipoli as Lead Partner, the Regional Unit of Thesprotia, LUM Jean Monnet University and Egnatia Odos S.A, represents a perfect mix in carrying on in parallel environment safeguard and sustainable transport development themes.

Trust project aims to improve the public-private cooperation in order to develop a multimodal transport system in particular regarding the tourism sector, such as to improve the connections between the main modal system, ports/airports/roads/cycle paths, to reach the main cultural – environmental destination and to guarantee continuity in the services either in geographical terms and in temporal ones.

Thanks to this project, a new web portal and mobile app will be implemented in order to promote the sustainable mobility and to allow the tourists to arrange several cultural itineraries in the involved territories.