The future of transport

European Commission

In 2001, the Commission issued a White Paper setting an agenda for the European transport policy throughout 2010. Approaching the end of the ten-year period, it is time to look further ahead and define a vision for the future of transport and mobility, preparing the ground for later policy developments.
The Commission intends to launch a debate on the main challenges and opportunities for the transport sector in the long term (20 to 40 years). The aim is to produce a Communication on the Future on Transport, to be adopted by the Commission in June 2009.

Four main exercises will contribute to this debate:
The “Transvisions” study, developing a set of long-term scenarios (2030-2050) for transport and mobility in Europe;

An evaluation study, analysing the performance of the Common Transport Policy in reaching the objectives laid down in the 2001 transport White Paper and in its 2006 mid-term review.

A report [8 MB] , produced within three focus groups gathering the views of transport experts and discussing the drivers of transport activity in the fields of the economy and society, technology and the environment, and infrastructure and logistics;

A High Level Conference , which took place on 9 and 10 March and gave stakeholders the possibility to express their views on the future development of transport in Europe.

The Commission encourages interested parties to submit their own views on the future of transport. Stakeholders can send their contributions until 27 March 2009 to the mailbox tren-future-of-transport@ec.europa.eu, indicating whether they would agree to publish them on the website's debate page.

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