The POSMETRANS project is pursuing two core goals:Objective1: Drawing conclusions for policy measures in order to accelerate the market take-up of innovative technologies and processes in transport.Objective2: Providing a framework for the impact assessment and evaluation of EU measures aiming at innovation.On the basis of an international network, consisting of six partners coming from five different European countries, an action plan to implement the above-mentioned goals was elaborated.The action plan is subject of the proposed project. Its conversion will contribute to achieve following results:POSMETRANS will support European policy makers in charge at the EU level in defining general conditions and priorities in order to increase the efficiency in the transport and logistic area to secure a sustainable European innovation strength and growth;POSMETRANS links logistic and transport policy questions in an overview and propositions about this will be gathered on how solutions to the problems can be approached on the interfaces of these sustainable areas and efficient for all participants;POSMETRANS will contribute to show obstacles for the development of the transport and logistic sector and deliver estimations of the affected stakeholder can be resolved in sustainable ways;POSMETRANS furthermore will deliver answers to questions about a harmonised training of the employees of the transport sector, as well as with regard to the securing of consistent quality standards for the benefit of the customers and consumers;POSMETRANS achieves a significant contribution to the rise in the efficiency of existing handling junctions through the showing of possibilities of a clever collaboration of actors of different carriers, and with that the completion of the European transport needs in the coming years.The focus of the project lies with the SMEs since they generete the largest turnover and the most jobs in the respective sector.