We’re counting down the days until the next European Transport Forum which will take place on Tuesday October 5th, 2010. We look forward to welcoming you to a unique event: an in-depth debate on the future of European transport, involving Europe’s top transport movers and shakers.
The ETF, ...
Sometime in July, the European Commission is set to unveil its Road Safety Action Programme for the 2011 to 2020 period. As officials put the finishing touches on their decade-long plan – and follow-up to the 2003-2010 programme – we can reveal the broad thrust of the initiative.
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British MEP Brian Simpson, the Chairman of the European Parliament's Transport and Tourism Committee, says the European Union needs to promote railways as it bids to meet its climate change targets and beat congestion.
Brian Simpson is blunt about the two transport challe...
The European Commission has today appointed Pat Cox, Péter Balázs and Gilles Savary as new European coordinators for the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).
The coordinators will be responsible for coordinating priority transport projects and reporting back to the ...
Ellen Townsend, Policy Director of the European Transport Safety Council
As the EU’s ten-year road safety campaign draws to a close, and a new plan is drafted, European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) Policy Director Ellen Townsend calls for a new set of measures covering enf...
In 2007 ETSC, the European Transport Safety Council, started a campaign on drink...
Book your seat now at the European Transport Forum 2010!
We’re counting down the days until the next European Transport Forum which will take place on Tuesday October 5th, 2010. We look forward to welcoming you to a unique event: an in-depth debate on the future of European transport, involving Europe’s top transport movers and shakers.
The ETF, which takes place at the Stanhope Hotel in Brussels’ European quarter (detailed programme), features a keynote address by EU Transport Commissioner and Commission Vice-President Siim Kallas on the Road Safety Action Programme.
The keynote will be followed by a panel-debate involving:
Belgian State Secretary of Mobility, Etienne Schouppe
Member of the European Parliament and Transport Committee-member, Inés Ayala Sender
Executive Director of the European Transport Safety Council, Antonio Avenoso and
Volvo Group President & CEO Leif Johansson.
The panel session will be moderated by Jacki Davis.
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The European Transport Forum debate will turn out to be a great networking event! Some of the registrants:
ACEM - The Motorcycle Industry in Europe
Bretagne/Pays de la Loire/Poitou-Charentes EU Office
Confederation of Inspection and Certification Organisations
Direzione Servizi Tecnici, Autostrade//per l'Italia SpA
EC Research Directorate-General - Industrial Technologies, European Commission
ETSC, European Transport Safety Council
EUCAR - European Council for Automotive R&D
European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
European Commission – DG Enterprise and Industry
European Commission - DG Information Society and Media (INFSO)
European Commission - Legal Service, AIDE (State aids)
Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI)
FIA - Federation Internationale de l'Automobile
FNTR - French Road Transport Employers Association
Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories
Goodyear Dunlop Tires Europe
International Fuel Quality Center
IRU Permanent Delegation to the EU
JAMA Europe
la Représentation Permanente de la France auprés de l'U.E.
SAAB AB
Transport en Logistiek Nederland
Trenco-Iris Belgium
UITP – International Association for Public Transport
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Europe’s road safety plans for the next decade: a sneak peek
Sometime in July, the European Commission is set to unveil its Road Safety Action Programme for the 2011 to 2020 period. As officials put the finishing touches on their decade-long plan – and follow-up to the 2003-2010 programme – we can reveal the broad thrust of the initiative.
How do you teach 500 million people in 27 different countries to drive better? For the European Commission, this has been a challenge since 2001, when it first set an ambitious EU-wide target of halving the number of fatalities on Europe's roads by 2010 and laid down a blueprint in the 2003 Road Safety Action Programme.
Now, as the programme draws to a close, the Commission is learning the lessons of that decade. And in July, it is due to unveil the follow-up programme, which will also cover a ten-year period, from 2011 to 2020, and aims to maintain the momentum across Europe for improving road safety and driving down fatalities.
Indeed, the Commission is planning to be as least as bold in the next ten years as it was a decade ago: the new programme will aim to reduce the number of road deaths and serious injuries by 50% between 2010 and 2020. This goes even further than the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), which called for a 40% cut in road deaths over the ten years until 2020.
British MEP Brian Simpson, the Chairman of the European Parliament's Transport and Tourism Committee, says the European Union needs to promote railways as it bids to meet its climate change targets and beat congestion.
Brian Simpson is blunt about the two transport challenges facing the European Union. “One is the easing of congestion. Two, cutting greenhouse gas emissions,” he says. And if his title as Chairman of the European Parliament's Transport and Tourism Committee holds any influence, Simpson will be in strong position to address both these challenges with one answer: railways.
“People are already using trains more and more as they don’t want to sit in a traffic jams,” he says. “You can sit in a motorway traffic jam for two hours or on a train for 20 minutes. And therein lies a challenge. In order to sustain it, we need to get the product right, and need the infrastructure. We have to do more to make rail attractive.”
Simpson is clear that he does not expect rail to replace other transport modes, but he does want to promote it as the most efficient and environmentally friendly method. Over the next ten years, he expects railway passenger traffic to continue to grow.
European Commission appoints three new coordinators for the Trans-European Transport Network
The European Commission has today appointed Pat Cox, Péter Balázs and Gilles Savary as new European coordinators for the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).
The coordinators will be responsible for coordinating priority transport projects and reporting back to the Commission.
Vice-President Siim Kallas, responsible for transport, said: "I attach great importance to the proper and efficient implementation of the TEN-T priority projects. I am therefore delighted that the Commission has appointed three coordinators with such high profiles."
The three new European coordinators, appointed in agreement with the Member States and after having consulted the European Parliament, are:
Pat Cox, former president of the European Parliament, will take over the coordination of Priority Project 1 (Berlin–Palermo) from the late Karel Van Miert;
Péter Balázs, former Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, returns to Priority Project 17 (Paris–Bratislava), the project he actively coordinated from July 2005 until April 2009;
Gilles Savary, former prominent member of the Parliament's transport committee, will be responsible for Priority Project 22 (Athens–Nuremberg/Dresden).
The new mandates will come into effect as of today and will end on 22 July 2013, together with the mandates of the existing coordinators. With the appointment of three new coordinators, a total of nine Coordinators will be active on eleven priority projects.
Vice-President Kallas added: "The results of the work of the coordinators has been to the full satisfaction of the Member States, the Parliament, the Commission and other stakeholders. It will encourage us to continue working on these projects in order to ensure an efficient implementation of our TEN-T policy."
Ellen Townsend, Policy Director of the European Transport Safety Council
As the EU’s ten-year road safety campaign draws to a close, and a new plan is drafted, European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) Policy Director Ellen Townsend calls for a new set of measures covering enforcement, drink driving and speeding.
Almost a decade ago, the European Union agreed its Road Safety Action Programme, with its target of halving the number of fatalities on Europe's roads by 2010, cutting deaths to 25,000. It has achieved some measure of success, but as the European Commission ponders a successor scheme, European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) Policy Director Ellen Townsend is pushing for new ambitions. “We’re very keen on a new target, and we want a 40% cut in road deaths over the ten years until 2020,” she says. “We also want a 20% reduction in severe injuries and a 60% cut in child deaths.”
