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Tajani: Shaping transport policy for the future
A reflection process launched by the European Commission, involving stakeholders and transport experts, identified 6 main trends and challenges that will shape the future of transport policy over the coming decades – aging, migration and internal mobility, environmental challenges, the availability of energy resources, urbanisation and globalisation.
Brussels, 26 May 2009
More than 20 delegates from several countries representing public authorities, European associations and leading companies discussed the opportunity to create voluntary public private transport partnerships in Europe at the first working session of the Climate TransAct program in Brussels, Belgium.
On May 26, representatives from seven European countries gathered, along with European transport and shippers’ associations and leading freight shippers, to discuss public private partnerships to reduce greenhouse gases emissions from freight transport. The working session was the first event of Climate TransAct, a new project to harmonise sustainable transport programs in Europe and to develop a common voluntary public private sustainable transport partnership in Europe based on best practices in several countries worldwide. Representatives from public and public stakeholders attended the working session to share best practices and to exchange ideas.