Tag: infrastructure charging

With less than eight months remaining before it must come up with a universal model to make users of all transport modes pay for the negative effects they inflict on society – including air pollution, CO2 emissions, accidents and congestion – the European Commission has invited stakeholders to take part in the controversial debate.

A pan-European plan to safeguard critical infrastructure against terrorist attacks in areas including energy, health, communication and transport was backed on 10 July 2007 by the European Parliament. However, MEPs also declared that responsibility for protecting critical infrastructure still rests primarily with national governments and private stakeholders.

The EP transport committee wants environmental criteria to be taken into account in setting road toll prices. MEPs agree with the Commission that revenues should be used to build up transport infrastructure.

MEPs are outraged that the action plan to kick-start investment in segments of the trans-European transport network projects was adopted by the European Council without them being consulted.

A new report focuses on how a balance can be found between funding public services through taxation and charging indidviduals. It comes at a time when infrastructure charging is high on the European agenda.

Transport Ministers expressed willingness to progress quickly on two key draft directives for the road sector in the EU - infrastructure charging and the interoperability of electronic toll collection systems.

Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T) and road charging top a busy agenda for the Transport Council.

On 1 October, the Commission will put forward a new list of trans-European transport network (TEN-T) priority projects and a major revision of the TEN-T Guidelines.

An extensive construction and modernisation of the road network in Central and Eastern Europe is necessary in order to catch up with western European standards.

The High Level Group chaired by Karel Van Miert has decided to put forward several lists of TEN-T priority projects. It was faced with the difficult task of choosing between more than a hundred project proposals presented by the Member States and candidate countries.

During a public debate organised by the Forum for the Automobile and Society, representatives of both public and private sectors discussed about the challenges of increasing road traffic, car ownership and car manufacturing in the future Member States.