This is especially true with regards to cargo traffic. To meet both demands increase the supply of cross-border services and reduce emmissions , TRAILS is designed to be a unique permanent cross-border window for finding multimodal solutions to the logistical needs of the Catalan economy and that of the Eastern Pyrenees upholding a cooperation-based strategy between operators, shippers and transport companies on both sides of the border.
The ultimate goal of the project is to facilitate the identification of new transnational railway routes to improve both the supply and the number of links and to provide efficient support to the consolidation of cargo transport for multiclient and multiproduct services in both territories.
In parallel, the project will also strive to achieve a greater railway infrastructure interoperability , and endeavour to reconcile the planning strategies of logistical infrastructures and support services for the multimodality of Catalonia and Occitania.
The help TRAILS will provide to five private companies for the development of their respective rail services or for their consolidation and increase of offered services is still pending resolution and publication.
It will be a similar help to the one offered by CSM described above, only in this case it comes as a result of the coordination between Catalonia and Occitania and, therefore, implies transnational rail services.
