Research for TRAN Committee - Modal shift in European transport: a way forward
Study
29-11-2018
The study provides a comprehensive analysis of the progress and potential of modal shift from road to more sustainable transport modes, with respect to the policy objectives set in the 2011 White Paper on transport. The study focuses both on passenger and freight transport, highlighting main barriers and factors that are hampering a more effective modal shift at EU level, and providing policy recommendations for the way forward.
Study
External author
Enrico Pastori, Marco Brambilla, Silvia Maffii, Raffaele Vergnani, Ettore Gualandi, Eglantina Dani, Ian Skinner
About this document
Publication type
Policy area
Keyword
- carriage of goods
- carriage of passengers
- charges for use of infrastructure
- common transport policy
- data collection
- economic analysis
- ECONOMICS
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- EU finance
- EU financing
- EUROPEAN UNION
- high-speed transport
- information technology and data processing
- inland waterway transport
- land transport
- maritime and inland waterway transport
- organisation of transport
- rail transport
- statistics
- TRANSPORT
- transport infrastructure
- transport policy
- urban transport