Focus Spatial Integration

CENTROPE is growing together, which invariably entails cross-border interdependencies. Throughout the Central European Region, the realisation of this challenge has inter alia led to intensive efforts to meet the demand for modern, efficient transport links as a basis for improved mutual accessibility. These investments are also decisive for the goal of establishing CENTROPE as a premier traffic and logistics hub at the crossroads of important European transport corridors. In addition to environmentally sound traffic management, however, the frame conditions for low-impact, sustainable urban and spatial development likewise constitute a core task for the coalescing Central European Region.

These factors call for a planning approach where all parties involved act in concert. Four countries – this means four different planning systems and methodologies as well as massive coordination input if the same objectives are to be pursued on both sides of borders. Effective regional planning with cross-border coordination is impossible without in-depth knowledge regarding the different competences of the individual administrative levels and without a common, comparable data base.