Boletín Marítimo

#39
CEPAL
Diciembre 2009

El Boletín Marítimo 39 desarrollado por la Unidad de Servicios de Infraestructura de CEPAL, actualiza la información marítima del 2009 contenida en los informes anteriores preparados por esta institución, con especial alusión a la evolución reciente de la crisis en los mercados marítimos. El documento de 27 páginas analiza la evolución de los principales indicadores de Contenedores, Graneles, Combustible marino IFO 380 y Comercio de commodities transportados por mar, tanto a nivel mundial como para América Latina y el Caribe.

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Greenhouse gas emission trends and projections in Europe 2009: Tracking progress towards Kyoto targets

European Environment Agency

EEA Report No 9
November 2009

This report presents an assessment of the current and projected progress of EU Member States, EU candidate countries and other EEA member countries towards their respective targets under the Kyoto Protocol and of progress towards the EU target for 2020. This is based on their past greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2007, and the projected greenhouse gas emissions of these countries during the Kyoto commitment period 2008-2012 and for 2020, derived from data and related information they provided before 1 June 2009.

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A sustainable future for transport: Towards an integrated, technology-led and user friendly system

Commission of the European Communities
June 2009

The European Commission has released this Communication, summarizing a process of reflection on the future of transport in Europe. It refers to recent developments of the European Transport Policy and outstanding issues; looks at the future, identifying trends in transport drivers and the likely challenges they could pose to society; proposes intermediate policy objectives that could be pursued to address the emerging challenges in the transport sector; and describes some available instruments and possible lines of intervention for achieving the stated objectives. The ideas in this Communication are meant to stimulate further debate aimed at identifying policy options, without prejudging the formulation of concrete proposals in the next White Paper of 2010.

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Safe, Clean, and Affordable Transport for Development: The World Bank Group s Transport Business Strategy for 2008-2012

World Bank
2008

The Bank Group’s transport business strategy articulates how transport and development goals come together.

Safe acknowledges the prominence of health outcomes within the Millennium Development Goals; it implies safety for transport users, for transport workers, and for the wider community.

Clean reflects the contribution that transport can make to the environmental aims of the Millennium Development Goals, and the need to address its impact on climate change.

Affordable acknowledges that physical supply of infrastructure is not enough. Efficient freight infrastructure, translated through well-functioning markets into affordable transport and logistics services, is critical for trade. Similarly, efficient and affordable transport underpins personal accessibility and mobility in both urban and rural areas.

Finally, transport for development asserts that, while transport can have many purposes, the Bank Group’s focus must be on its contribution to economic development.

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Critical Issues in Transportation: 2009 Update

Transportation Research Board
June 2009



TRB’s Executive Committee periodically identifies a set of critical issues in transportation to focus attention on their likely impact on the nation’s economy and quality of life. The discussion of the critical issues identified in this document is intended to facilitate debate and to encourage research leading to their resolution.

Previous editions of Critical Issues in Transportation have highlighted many of the issues that threaten the performance of the nation’s transportation system. In recent years, the Executive Committee has added the need to respond to terrorism and natural disasters, highlighting how transportation has become ever more linked to broader issues in society and in the economy.

The 2009 Critical Issues update elevates the importance of energy and environmental issues to reflect the prominence that these topics have gained in national debates about energy security and climate change. Greater emphasis also is given to the issues of the condition and financing of infrastructure, to help policy makers prepare for the reauthorization of federal surface transportation programs that expire in 2009.

The urgency of addressing the critical issues has never been greater. The Executive Committee hopes that readers of this list will become aware of and concerned about these issues, and will join in addressing the problems in transportation so that society and the economy can reap the many benefits.

To order free copies of Critical Issues in Transportation, please contact Russell Houston, TRB's Senior Communications Officer, at rhouston@nas.edu or 202-334-3252. In your correspondence, please include the number of copies of the publication you need, the audience you are going to be sharing them with, and your full mailing address.

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Trends in the transport sector

OECD
June 2009

This publication presents the most up-to-date statistics on transport markets in International Transport Forum countries for the period 1970-2007, including charts to highlight the major trends. Published earlier than comparable studies, this handy pocket-sized booklet provides the reader with first-hand figures on key transport trends. Data are also provided on air and maritime transport as well as on investment and maintenance expenditures undertaken in the transport sector.

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Transport Outlook 2009: Globalisation, Crisis and Transport

International Transport Forum
Discussion Paper No. 2009-12
May 2009 (Preliminary version)

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TRA 2008: Conference Conclussions

European Commission
April 2009



TRA 2008, the second European Road Transport Research Arena, was held this past April in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The conference welcomed 1 300 scientists, engineers, policy makers and industry representatives, helping to forge new productive partnerships and bringing fresh perspectives to some of today’s most pressing issues.

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FAA Aerospace Forecasts FY 2009-2025

Federal Aviation Administration
April 2009

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has released a report that examines future trends expected in the aerospace industry. The report explores the economics of the industry in general as well as trends expected to affect the commercial and general aviation community.

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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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Transport Trends: 2008 Edition

UK Department for Transport
February 2009

This publication presents an overview and analysis of trends in transport and travel in Great Britain over the past 25 years, and highlights some of the key issues. It is intended as a companion volume to Transport Statistics Great Britain, which contains reference tables of more detailed figures and some longer time trends.

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