Realistic prospects for Intermodal transportation in Europe’
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Transcript Realistic prospects for Intermodal transportation in Europe’
"Intermodality – The last European Challenge before
expensive congestion“
Peter Wolters, Deputy Secretary General
European Intermodal Association, Brussels
March 18, Palerme
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Overview presentation :
Challenges EU transport policy
Actions of the legislator the EU Commission?
Study Infrastructure Capacity Reserves Combined
Transport 2015
SSS sector & initiatives coming from the EU
Commission
Environment & intermodal
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International freight traffic will continue to grow in
significance in the years ahead.
%
80
National Freight Traffic
+66%
International Freight Traffic
60
40
+33%
+32%
+22%
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0
Cautious
Scenario
2010
Sources: DB Cargo, VLS, BVU, Forecast 1998
Optimistic
Scenario
2010
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Challenges EU transport policy
Harmonization between EU countries from
regulatory, organizational and technical point of
view, is far from perfect and is a source of
competitive distortion
Basis on which infrastructure costs are taken into
consideration is very unsatisfactory
Congestion and bottlenecks
Enlargement to East Europe
Environment
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Transport White Paper
Chapters:
I.
Shifting the balance between modes
of transport
II.
Eliminating Bottlenecks
III. Placing users of transport at the
heart of transport policy
IV. Managing the globalisation of
transport.
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Study on Infrastructure Capacity Reserves for
Combined Transport by 2015 Concentration of International CT expected in 2015
CT Trains per day
1
5
10
25
50
75
100
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•Source: UIC
Rate of employment of the Railway Infrastructure in
2015 after consideration of planned enlargement
investments
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Source: UIC
Enlargement investments & industry re-locations
* Spatial concentration of production. Source: Harrison & van Hoek
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SSS various different EU initiatives
Proposal to regulate market access to port services
New Commission-hosted Internet site:
http://forum.europa.eu.int/Public/irc/tren/Home/main
Motorways of the Sea
IMO-FAL forms
Customs Guide
Port Hinterland Connections
European Intermodal Loading Units
and of course… Marco Polo!
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Environment:
‘Green’
issues became business goal
(External) Cost EU freight traffic: € 530 Bln.
Caused by: Road (91.5%), Air (6.1%), Rail
(1.9%), Waterway (0.5%).
Bottlenecks: congestion, delays, pollution...
EU. Commission Policy: soon, internalisation
of external costs.
Bill to be paid by: the causer(s)
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Membership EIA
Sharing intermodal commitment
Lobby & representation members at EU. level,
proposing intermodal measures for members
Round Tables with authorities and market players
addressing your problems
Working visits to learn about benefits Intermodality
Sharing intermodal information for decision making
Products:
Intermodal Masterclass for seniors (start 14 December)
Intermodal Handbook (publish your best practice!)
Annual Intermodal Award ceremony – also for Italian
companies (Jury: EU COM, EU PARL and various
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professional associations)
www.intermodaltransport.org
www.eia-ngo.com
[email protected]
Thank you for your attention!
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