The IMA Coordination Unit, on behalf of the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea organized in 2005 the first edition of "Scientific Workshop On Mountain Mobility and Transport – SWOMM", devoted to the major scientific research projects concerning sustainable mobility and transport in mountain areas. The workshop was held on October 6th 2005 in EURAC. It is part of the INTERREG IIIB AlpFrail Project and of the Policy and Law initiative of the Mountain Partnership.

Mobility and transport experts from the public and private sector took part in the SWOMM project and shared information and experiences concerning the questions linked to the transalpine traffic management. Starting from the available transport scientific research findings, the meeting has promoted new synergies and exchanges of best practices among experts involved in sustainable development applied to mobility and transport in the mountain areas.

In the wake of the success of this first meeting, UdC IMA, in collaboration with the Committee for the Centenary of the Simplon Tunnel and in agreement with the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea organized SWOMM 2006, that took place on the 8th of September 2006, in Domodossola at the DOMO 2 Station – Beura Cardezzawithin the context of the celebrations of the Centenary of the Simplon Tunnel.

Experts and representatives of institutions involved in mountain mobility and transport both from all the Alpine Countries and from Interantionl bodies attended the workshop , and discussed the results of SWOMM 2005 during the Round Table.In December 2007, the third SWOMM edition was held in Trieste. The meeting focused on the transalpine east-west traffic and its possible future scenarios, also taking into consideration the influence that new great infrastructures may have and the development of the so-called "Motorways of the Sea". The possibility of implementing the AlpCheck data collection and analysis system in extra Alpine areas was also discussed.

The 2008 edition of SWOMM, Scientific Workshop on Mountain Mobility and Transport, will take place in Bolzano, Italy, on December 11, 2008. Organized by EURAC in agreement with the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, SWOMM 2008 will gather representatives of international,state and local institutions from countries of the Alpine Arc and from the Carpathians, as well as operators and experts in the mobility and transport sector.

The aim of this year´s workshop will be to discuss the issue of sustainable mobility in the Alpine and Carpathian urban areas, with the purpose of generating, by evaluating the results of previous projects and already adopted solutions, new ideas and suggestions for a sustainable urban mobility in the mountainous regions.

The IMA Coordination Unit, in agreement with the Italian Ministry of Environment and Territory, will continue to take care of the publication of the proceedings of this year´s and previous editions of the workshop.

For further information:
Email: swomm@eurac.edu Phone: +39 0471 055362 Fax: +39 0471 055359

To participate, please send Registration Form SWOMM 2008 to swomm@eurac.edu