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Sustainable Transport for Europe and Urban Mobility Action Plan

EHA Annual National Association Meeting

Brussels, 22nd June 2010

Dr William Borthwick,

European Commission,

Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE),

Clean Transport, Urban Transport and Intelligent Transport

Systems

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Overview

.Trends and Challenges

.The White Paper on Transport

.Action Plan on Urban Mobility

.Civitas – Developing solutions for tomorrow

.Summary


Trends and challenges

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.Increasing scarcity of fossil fuelsWorld demand grows and extraction becomes moreexpensive. The 97% oil dependency makes the transportsector very vulnerable to oil shocks.Environmental challenges Transport is the

sector with worst development trend in CO2 emissions.Congestion of infrastructure Growing

demand for mobility – many cities are congested and somecrucial infrastructures like ports and airports becomesaturated.Funding of transport We have entered an era

of budgetary consolidations and of increasing socialsecurity spending owing to the aging of society


Trends and challenges

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.Urbanisation („the last mile‟) Urban dimension of

transport crucial : 84% of Europeans will live in

urban areas in 2050

.Global trends (global solutions) It is estimated

that cars in the world will increase from around

700 million today to more than 3 billion in 2050

.Demography: By 2060 30% of population will be

over 60 (c.f. 17% today); increasing migration and

internal mobility

.Subsidiarity: all levels of governance need to

meet the challenges (local, national, EU)


Recent Commission Transport Policy Initiatives

. Freight Transport Logistics Action Plan;

. European Economic Recovery Plan

. Action plan for the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems in Europe

. Green Paper - TEN-T: A policy review - Towards a better integrated trans-european transport network…

. Green Paper “A sustainable future for transport…”

. Action Plan on Urban Mobility


The White Paper on Transport

.The White Paper will define a strategy and an actionplan for transport policy over the next decade that isinspired by the long-term challenges

.Scheduled for adoption at the end of 2010

.The aim is to achieve transport sustainability, whichrequires actions to promote competitiveness, reduceenvironmental impact and enhance quality ofservices and jobs


The Strategy

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Single Transport SystemUse less energy by exploiting the strength of each mode

Eliminating residual obstaclesEffective market opening in all modes

Getting prices rightInternalisation of external costs, subsidies

Enhancing interoperabilityTechnical standards, Single transport document

Informing users, shaping behaviourIntegrated ticketing, soft incentives, labels

Less

congestion

More use of

rail and

waterborne

Higher

resilience

Clean transport fuelsUse cleaner energy to end oil dependency

Setting long-term targetsShare of alternative fuels, Efficiency standards

Incentives and public procurementClean Vehicles Directive, Company car taxation

Supporting research & innovationTechnical standards, Demonstration projects

InfrastructureRefuelling stations, Smart grids

Security of

supply

Low-carbon

energy

Certainty for

investors

Better infrastructureExploit existing infrastructure more efficiently

Deploying ITSMultimodal traffic management systems

Establishing Green CorridorsCo-modality and advanced technology

Integrating modesTranshipment platforms and multimodal hubs

Revising transport funding

Single funding framework

A transport

system that is:

Multi-modal

Intelligent

Efficient


Perspectives for Alternative Fuels

Market shareAim for full substitution of oil in the long term

Consistent step-up process required

Biofuels: Domestic resource base; mature for the broad market

Broadening of resource base with 2nd generation biofuels

Political support, economic incentives, pilot plants

Hydrogen: Diversification of resource base as energy carrier

Improvement of energy efficiency with fuel cells

Research + development, demonstration projects

Electricity: Diversification of resource base as energy carrier

Improvement of energy efficiency with electric motors

Demonstration, early markets, research + development


Action Plan on Urban Mobility

.Green Paper on Urban Mobility in 2007 gave new

impetus to debate on urban transport in Europe

.Extensive stakeholder consultation helped identify 20

concrete EU-level actions in six thematic areas for

implementation until 2012

.The Action Plan on Urban Mobility of September 2009

provides a coherent framework for these action

.Actions do not impose on-size-fits-all solutions but

support and complement local efforts.Review in 2012


Action Plan : Six themes and 20 actions

.Promoting integrated policies.Focusing on citizens.Greening urban transport.Strengthening funding.Sharing experience and knowledge.Optimising urban mobility


Civitas – Developing tomorrow’s solutions

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.Development of new technologies and integrated

concepts for urban mobility in demonstration projects

.City-led cooperation and information exchange across

Europe

.Promoting an integrated approach

.Funded by EU Research Framework Programme

.Keyfigures:

» 58 demonstration cities

» Over 170 network cities

» 180 M€ funding since 2002


EU Funding Instruments – Examples I

. EU Research Framework Programme- Total of 4.16 B€ committed to transport theme in FP7. Structural and cohesion funds

- Approx. 8 B€ allocated to clean urban transport

- Provide e.g. financial support for 'transport investments and

integrated strategies for clean transport’ and for 'promoting clean

and sustainable public transport, particularly in urban areas.‘

. Public Private Partnerships- e.g. Green Cars Initiative of the European Economic Recovery

Plan with a budget of 5 B€ (1 B€ RTD grants + 4 B€ EIB loans)


EU Funding Instruments – Examples II

. Marguerite - the 2020 European Fund for Energy,

Climate Change and Infrastructure

- joint initiative of Europe’s leading public financial institutions ,

including EIB

- supports green field investments in a number of target sectors,

including transport . Other instruments and programmes: STEER,

MARCO POLO, …

. General grants and tenders (e.g. for studies)


Summary

• Growing need for oil substitution in transport• Concerns on security of energy supply• Necessity of CO2 emission reductions in transport

• Package of new policy initiatives and actions

• Support to R&D – technologies, policy,

• Promotion of market introduction; public procurement• Market regulation (targets on energy, CO2, pollutants)

• EIB loans; Structural Funds; State aid; tax relief

• Transition to multiple fuel mix expected

• Progressive oil substitution with combinations of new fuels

• Biofuels, natural gas, electricity, hydrogen

• Planned, integrated approach to infrastructure build up – exploit synergies for production, distribution and storage


Summary

.Europe 2020 Strategy underlines importance of a

modernised, integrated transport system (incl. the

urban dimension)

.Commission vision for the future of transport will

be presented in the upcoming White Paper.The Commission will work to develop a

Sustainable Transport Technology Plan (following

the SET Plan)


THANK YOU!

.Contact:

William BORTHWICK,

DG MOVE, Clean Transport, Urban Transport and ITS

.Additional information:http://ec.europa.eu/transport/index_en.htmhttp://www.civitas.eu

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/index_en.htm

http://www.civitas.eu/


Internalisation is important

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.Take into account all externalities and provide

fairer comparison with other sectors

.Give incentives to „right‟ behaviour

.Promote the „right‟ technologies

.Provide signals for investments

.Collect resources for better transport


GHG emissions


Source: JRC-IPTS

Technologies that can reduce global CO2 emissions from energy

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