Conference
on Rail Infrastructure 20-21 Sept 2001
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Background
‘Sustainable freight
transport’ is an important issue nowadays bearing in mind that over
the past 30 years overall freight transport doubled while road freight transport
increased by a factor three and became the dominant transport mode.
In the same time, railways
continually lost not only market share but also transport volume, whereas inland
waterways just maintained their volumes.
The negative impacts of this development became obvious and political opinion
started to favor freight transport by environmental less harmful transport modes. However, this has not yet
happened. For this reason T&E
the European Federation for Transport and Environment
advocates for sustainable transport and
undertakes a project "Freight:
From Road to Rail" to
disseminate this idea.
This Site
This Web Site offers plenty
of information about Sustainable Freight Transport in Europe.
The objective of this Web
Site is to facilitate access to documents and links on Sustainable Freight
Transport.
An
experimental tool is the Forum, where key players and stakeholders are brought
together to discuss their experiences and express their ideas about the
opportunities and obstacles of Sustainable Freight Transport.
The Project
You
want to know more about T&Es project "Freight:
From Road to Rail", its objectives,
activities and results click here.
Here
you'll find also links to the most important documents on Sustainable Freight
Transport produced by T&E.
The Partners
For
information
about and links to the partners of T&Es project "Freight:
From Road to Rail" click
here.
The Facts
What
volumes of goods are moved on European roads, on railways on inland waterways? How did
this transport modes develop in the past? What about modal split? What are the
environmental impacts of transport? For such information and links to
statistics on European transport click here.
The Documents
You
are looking for official documents from the European Commission e.g. directives
or a white papers? Or, possibly you are more interested in studies and research
projects? Click here
to find
them.
The Good
Practice
Here
you find information on and links to instruments which are used in practice and
which contributes to Sustainable Freight Transport.
The Links
You
are looking for the websites of a national authority or a European Institution,
for a rail operator or an NGO click here
to find the links.
The Forum
The
Forum offers you the possibility to express your comments, to exchange your
experience, to indicate good examples but also to show obstacles to achieve Sustainable
Freight Transport. To go to this platform for all key players and stake holders
click here.
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website has been accessed
times.
It went online on 10 August 2001.
It was last up-dated on 16 August 2001.
This Web-site is designed and maintained by Markus Liechti, T&E Project Manager. Send him your comments.
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