Objectives PROMIT is a European Coordination Action (CA) for intermodal freight transport initiating, facilitating and supporting the coordination and cooperation of national and European initiatives, projects, promotion centres, technology providers, research institutes and user groups related to this most complex transport form. The strategic PROMIT objective is to contribute to a faster improvement and implementation of intermodal transport technologies and procedures and to help promoting intermodal logistics and mode shift by creating awareness on innovations, best practices and intermodal transport opportunities for potential users as well as for politicians and for the research community. The project implementation covers a 3-year period, where 3 Intermodal Innovation Day Conferences and at least 15 cluster Workshops will be organised in addition to the dissemination via brochures, newsletter and Internet homepage. PROMIT will raise synergies in the European intermodal community and contribute to policy initiatives on national and European level supporting the shift of transports from road to Intermodal transport modes. Methodology Due to the immense size of the intermodality domain PROMIT has chosen a matrix organization, where the domain expertise is treated in five parallel clusters:   (1) Organisation and business models, (2) Intermodal infrastructure and equipment, (3) Information and Communication Technologies, (4) Operation and services and (5) Security, Safety, Legislation and Policy.   The approach followed integrates the work and the tasks from the project’s workpackages (vertical level) and the thematic clustering activities (horizontal level). The work packages ensure that PROMIT will collate, consolidate and disseminate what already exists in terms of best practises, performance indicators and benchmarks, as well as national/European strategies, policies and promotion activities. Addressing in detail the national and European promotion structures as well as strengths, gaps and weaknesses of promotion measures will be a focus of PROMIT, including the implementation of exemplary real life cases of promotion measures in areas presently not addressed.