TCP - International Transport Consulting Partners: News-Archive

05 Mar 2020

City2Navigation project kicked off

Since January 2020, TCP International, together with PRISMA solutions, AlbrechtConsult and the state capital Stuttgart, has been working on the City2Navigation project on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital...more »

12 Dec 2019

Keynote speech: CPS in transport for South Baltic Sea Region

On 5 December 2019, Carsten Schürmann was invited as keynote speaker at the INTERCONNECT partner meeting in Rostock, Germany, to give a presentation entitled "Cross-border public services (CPS): An instrument to implement...more »

19 Nov 2019

EUKN Seminar on Metropolitan and Cross-border Functionality

ESPON, together with EUKN (European Urban Knowledge Network), organised a seminar on metropolitan and cross-border functionality in Prague, Czech Republic, on 14 November 2019. Carsten Schürmann gave a keynote speech in the...more »

15 Nov 2019

Webinar on Results of ESPON CPS Targeted Analysis Project

In order to dissiminate the results of the ESPON CPS targeted analysis project on cross-border public services to a wide range of stakeholders, ESPON, the European Spatial Planning Observatory Network, together with CESCI...more »

14 Oct 2019

Potentials of Cross-border Public Services for the Dutch-German Border Region EUREGIO

Upon invitation of EUREGIO, on 9 October 2019, Sabine Zillmer and Carsten Schürmann participated in the workshop The EUREGIO Presents Itself, presenting selected results of the ESPON CPS project to discuss potentials of...more »

23 Sep 2019

County Coesfeld: Selected Results of EUREGIO Air Accessibility Study

On 16 September 2019, Carsten Schürmann presented selected results of the EUREGIO Air Accessibility study to the Committee on Finance, Economic and Regional Development of the County of Coesfeld. Focus of his presentation was...more »

17 Jun 2019

EUREGIO Air Accessibility Final Conference at Space53

On 13 June, the final conference of the project on 'Accessibility of the EUREGIO territory in air transport' took place at the Space53 center in Enschede, the Netherlands, with active participation of representatives from...more »

11 Jun 2019

CPS Presentation at Annual RSA Conference

Carsten Schürmann presented selected results of the ESPON CPS Project in two presentations at the Annual RSA Conference in Santiago de Compostela (4-7 June 2019). In the special ESPON session on 'Re-regionalising Europe - Towards...more »

25 Feb 2019

ESPON CPS: Final report available for download

The Final Report of the ESPON CPS project on cross-border public services is now available for download from ESPON website. Besides the main report, a practical guide, a comprehensive and detailed scientific analysis report, good...more »

18 Feb 2019

EUREGIO Air Accessibility - Committee presentation

On 14 February 2019, the project team (TCP International, Spatial Foresight, BEMA and DTV Consultants) presented the preliminary results of the "Study on the accessiblity of the EUREGIO in aviation" to the EUREGIO...more »

01 Feb 2019

Draft final report of ESPON BRIDGES published

The draft final report of the ESPON BRIDGES project on territories with geographical specificities in Europe has now been published on the ESPON website along with several annex reports. The final report is scheduled for...more »

08 Jun 2018

Vital Nodes Workshop in Hamburg

Carsten Schürmann has participated in the Vital Nodes workshop in Hamburg on May 30, 2018, where he gave a presentation entitled 'Urban TEN-T nodes in Germany - Challenges, Activities and Strategy Development', presenting interim...more »

01 May 2018

New project: Study on EUREGIO air accessibility

A project consortium led by TCP International, consisting of the BEMA research group at the University of Münster (WWU), Spatial Foresight and DTV Consultants, has been commissioned by the EUREGIO to carry out a study on air...more »

10 Apr 2018

ESPON PROFECY Final Report published

The final report of ESPON PROFECY project is now available for fdownload from the ESPON Website. There, you may also find an executive summary, a handbook, and a number of annex reports for free download.Further Information:...more »

10 Dec 2017

Delineation of FUAs in Germany and Switzerland

On behalf of the Technical University of Munich, TCP International updated earlier delineations of functional urban areas (FUAs) in Germany, Switzerland and neighbouring regions. This delineation updates existing old delineations...more »

01 Dec 2017

New study on cross-border public services (ESPON CPS)

As part of a consortium led by Spatial Foresight, Luxembourg, TCP International participates in a new ESPON study on cross-border public services (CPS). The aim being to identify all existing CPS along EU borders, to analyse them...more »

11 Nov 2017

ESPON Profecy Draft Final Report now available for download

The Draft Final Report of ESPON Profecy project is now available for download from the project website, along with a number of annex reports.Further information: Carsten Schürmannmore »

06 Nov 2017

Final Report of Euregio freight corridor project published

The final report of the Interreg project on freight corridors in the Euregio can now be downloaded from the project website in German and Dutch language. The project had the following objectives:Analysing the logistics profile of...more »

23 Oct 2017

New ESPON project: ESPON BRIDGE - Balanced regional development in areas with geographic specificities

As part of an international project group led by Spatial foresight, Luxembourg, TCP International participates in an analysis of disadvantaged regions (mountain areas, sparsely populated and poorly reachable areas, islands,...more »

28 Jun 2017

ESPON PROFECY - Interim Report published

The interim report of the ESPON PROFECY project on inner peripheries is now published and can be downloaded from the ESPON Website. The report provides first project results, in particular with regard to the small-scale...more »

14 Jun 2017

Workshop freight corridors in the EUREGIO

On 13 June, Carsten Schürmann, Jorrit Harmen (TNO) and Christian Lüer (Spatial foresight) presented the results of a study on the Euregio freight corridor at a conference on Freight corridors in the Euregio to interested...more »

10 Jun 2017

RSA Conference 2017 in Dublin - Presentation on Inner Peripheries in Europe

Interim results of the Espon PROFECY project on the identification, delineation and description of inner peripheries in Europe were presented at the annual conference of the Regional Science Association (RSA) in Dublin as part of...more »

03 Apr 2017

New address: TCP Internation has moved

As of 1 April 2017, TCP International has moved its main office. We are now available at Heilbronner Straße 150, D-70191 Stuttgart, Germany (BülowBogen Business Center). All our phone and fax lines and e-mail connections have,...more »

10 Mar 2017

NUTS-2 travel time matrices for 1991

On behalf of the Universities of Palermo and Pisa, Italy, TCP International generated NUTS-2 car travel time matrices for 1991 between all regions within the EU27 territory.The 1991 road network was taken from the RRG GIS...more »

15 Feb 2017

New project: Urban nodes in TEN-T networks

A consortium of Rupprecht Consult (lead partner), Spatial Foresight and TCP International has been awarded a study on the role of German urban nodes in the context of the trans-European transport networks (TEN-T) and their...more »

15 Jan 2017

LNG pre-study for South Baltic Region

TCP International supports the Hanseatic Institute for Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (HIE-RO), Rostock, Germany, in the framework of the Interreg seed money project "Liquified (bio)gas as a driving force for...more »

22 Dec 2016

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2017!

The past year had once again given us exciting and diverse activities, challenges and moments of happiness and joy! Sometimes these moments came by surprise, sometimes they were long planned.TCP International appreciates the...more »

31 Aug 2016

ESPON PROFECY project - Inception Report published

The Inception Report of the ESPON PROFECY project on Inner Peripheries: national territories facing challenges of access to basic services of general interest has now been published on the ESPON website for download.Further...more »

07 Jul 2016

EUREGIO freight corridor: Worshop on border obstacles in the logistics sector

As part of the EUREGIO freight corridor project, a bilingual workshop was held on July 4, 2016 in Hotel Driland in Gronau on border obstacles in the logistic sector in the EUREGIO. 25 representatives of companies, business...more »

01 Jul 2016

New ESPON project: Inner Peripheries - National territories facing challenges of access to basic services of general interest

As part of an eight-member project group, led by the University of Valencia, TCP International is involved in the delineation, identification and quantitative analysis and description of inner peripheries in Europe. The concept...more »

01 Jun 2016