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TRANSFORuM Roadmaps published on 8 December

On 8 December 2014, the FP7 project TRANSFORuM released four “stakeholder-driven” roadmaps towards the implementation of the European Commission’s White Paper on Transport.

The FP7 project TRANSFORuM focuses on four goals of this visionary document and provides respective recommendations: Clean urban mobility (Goal: Halve the use of conventionally fuelled cars by 2030)

• The technological transformation currently moves ahead too slowly;
• Controlling the volumes of car and truck traffic are at least as important;
• Providing convenient alternatives to cars must be part of the solution;
• We need more and better dialogue and collaboration among stakeholders.

Long-distance freight (Goal: Shifting 50% of road freight over 300 km to rail or waterborne by 2050)

• Substantial shift of investment funding from road to rail and waterborne is required;
• New tracks will be needed, but existing capacity can be used much more efficiently;
• Higher fees on truck transport is crucial; better enforcement existing rules is also important;
• Rail and waterborne need to provide more customer oriented services and cut costs;

High-speed rail (Goal: Most medium-distance passengers use rail instead of cars or planes)

• Tripling the length of the high-speed rail network must mean tripling demand;
• Different economic, social and territorial features across Europe matter greatly;
• Extending the high-speed rail network doesn't necessary means building new tracks;
• New infrastructure has to be carefully prioritised (e.g. not every cross-border link make sense).

Multimodal transport information, management & payment systems (Goal: Framework by 2020)

• Independent start-ups could do much more if they had they data;
• Business interests and investments must be protected;
• The balance between convenience and privacy must be very finely tuned;
• Integration of local and long distance transport is essential;
• Defined data exchange formats are necessary to ensure compatibility.

These conclusions are of highest relevance for all players in the European transport arena, including policy makers, businesses, service providers, operators etc. They are also extremely important as input for the forthcoming review of the Transport White Paper.
High-level representatives of the European Commission, influential actors from the private sector and renowned academics attended the TRANSFORuM conference. Among them were Magda Kopczyńska (DG MOVE, Director Innovative and Sustainable Mobility) and Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research).
All speakers and panellists are mentioned in the online agenda at <link http: www.transforum-project.eu events dec-2014-brussels.html>www.transforum-project.eu/events/dec-2014-brussels.html. Participation was free of charge. The event was also transmitted through a live video stream. Further details at the above mentioned agenda webpage.
The event was co-organised by the European Economic and Social Committee and tookiltk place at its premises (Rue Belliard, 99. B-1040 BRUSSELS). You can download the Roadmaps below.

Related Projects

TRANSFORuM

Further Information

Ralf Brand

+49 221 6060 55 18

r.brand@rupprecht-consult.eu

Downloads

[1] TRANSFORuM_Roadmap_Freight

The TRANSFORuM Roadmap on long-distance freight

[1] TRANSFORuM_Roadmap_High-speed-rail

The TRANSFORuM Roadmap on high-speed-rail

[1] TRANSFORuM_Roadmap_MIMP

The TRANSFORuM Roadmap on multimodal transport infomration, management and payment systems (MIMP)

[1] TRANSFORuM_Roadmap_Urban

The TRANSFORuM Roadmap on clean urban mobility