Sustainable Transport for Europe and Urban Mobility Action Plan EHA Annual National Association Meeting Brussels, 22nd June 2010 Dr William Borthwick, European Commission, Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE), Clean Transport, Urban Transport and Intelligent Transport Systems
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Sustainable Transport for Europe and Urban Mobility Action Plan
EHA Annual National Association Meeting
Brussels, 22nd June 2010
Dr William Borthwick,
European Commission,
Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE),
Clean Transport, Urban Transport and Intelligent Transport
Systems
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Overview
.Trends and Challenges
.The White Paper on Transport
.Action Plan on Urban Mobility
.Civitas – Developing solutions for tomorrow
.Summary
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Trends and challenges
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.Increasing scarcity of fossil fuelsWorld demand grows and extraction becomes moreexpensive. The 97% oil dependency makes the transportsector very vulnerable to oil shocks.Environmental challenges Transport is the
sector with worst development trend in CO2 emissions.Congestion of infrastructure Growing
demand for mobility – many cities are congested and somecrucial infrastructures like ports and airports becomesaturated.Funding of transport We have entered an era
of budgetary consolidations and of increasing socialsecurity spending owing to the aging of society
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Trends and challenges
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.Urbanisation („the last mile‟) Urban dimension of
transport crucial : 84% of Europeans will live in
urban areas in 2050
.Global trends (global solutions) It is estimated
that cars in the world will increase from around
700 million today to more than 3 billion in 2050
.Demography: By 2060 30% of population will be
over 60 (c.f. 17% today); increasing migration and
internal mobility
.Subsidiarity: all levels of governance need to
meet the challenges (local, national, EU)
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Recent Commission Transport Policy Initiatives
. Freight Transport Logistics Action Plan;
. European Economic Recovery Plan
. Action plan for the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems in Europe
. Green Paper - TEN-T: A policy review - Towards a better integrated trans-european transport network…
. Green Paper “A sustainable future for transport…”
. Action Plan on Urban Mobility
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The White Paper on Transport
.The White Paper will define a strategy and an actionplan for transport policy over the next decade that isinspired by the long-term challenges
.Scheduled for adoption at the end of 2010
.The aim is to achieve transport sustainability, whichrequires actions to promote competitiveness, reduceenvironmental impact and enhance quality ofservices and jobs
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The Strategy
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Single Transport SystemUse less energy by exploiting the strength of each mode
Eliminating residual obstaclesEffective market opening in all modes
Getting prices rightInternalisation of external costs, subsidies
Enhancing interoperabilityTechnical standards, Single transport document