Stakeholders of the Multimodal Freight Transport Ecosystem in Polish–Czech–Slovak Cross-Border Area

Marzena Kramarz, Lilla Knop, Edyta Przybylska and Katarzyna Dohn
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Marzena Kramarz: Faculty of Organization and Management, Silesian University of Technology, Roosevelt 26–28 Str., 41-800 Zabrze, Poland
Lilla Knop: Faculty of Organization and Management, Silesian University of Technology, Roosevelt 26–28 Str., 41-800 Zabrze, Poland
Edyta Przybylska: Faculty of Organization and Management, Silesian University of Technology, Roosevelt 26–28 Str., 41-800 Zabrze, Poland
Katarzyna Dohn: Faculty of Organization and Management, Silesian University of Technology, Roosevelt 26–28 Str., 41-800 Zabrze, Poland

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 8, 1-32

Abstract: The research on the multimodal transport development within the cross-border area is a result of identified gaps in the system solutions and cooperation between stakeholders of three countries: Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Freight transport is an especially complex problem. It is an area that is not comprehensively recognized in the context of cross-border cooperation. The results of the research presented in this paper are the continuation of analyses performed within the scope of the international project framework TRANS TRITIA. At the moment, transport policy assumes the struggle for the utilization of multimodality within freight transport. This is justified by the need to reduce external transport costs. At the same time, this necessitates actions of a technical, organizational, and legislation nature as well as cooperation between stakeholders. The multimodal transport ecosystem is a vision of the transport within cross-border areas that assumes the increase in the flow dynamics within the multimodal transport. The main goal of this paper was the stakeholders’ analysis and identification of their roles in the ecosystem of multimodal freight transport within the Polish–Czech–Slovak cross-border area. The conceptualization of the multimodal freight transport ecosystem was essential to achieving the objective. To achieve the objective, a stakeholder analysis has been performed based on expert research. As a result of the research, organizational projects have been proposed to strengthen the idea of the coevolution of the multimodal transport ecosystem. The key conclusion from the performed research is the declaration that a holistic view of the multimodal transport ecosystem necessitates the appointment of a coordinator who will synchronize knowledge, business, and innovation ecosystems.

Keywords: ecosystem; multimodal transport; stakeholders; coordinator; cross-border area (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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