Conceptual models for better interoperability between road and rail transport in Lithuania

Abstract

One of the main strategic goals declared in the common European transport policy—development of efficient, environment-friendly, sustainable transport system. The key prerequisites for the realization of this ambitious goal is development of national and international co-modal transport systems, that are based on the interoperability of different transport modes. Interoperability itself is also hard to implement without proper arrangement of legal framework, organizational measures and, finally, interconnected transport infrastructures of different transport modes (common multimodal transport network). The goal of this article is to present the results of the study aimed at identification of key shortages of transport network in Lithuania. The tasks were set in order to reach the goal: To identify the factors that led to such situation, and to discuss conceptual models that might be useful in changing current situation.