The ASSESS study is about the “Assessment of the contribution of the TEN and other transport policy measures to the mid-term implementation of the White Paper on the European Transport Policy for 2010”. The European Commission’s White Paper of 12.9.2001 “European transport policy for 2010: time to decide” aims to promote a sustainable transport policy. The White Paper proposes to achieve sustainability by gradually breaking the link between transport growth and economic growth, principally in three ways: changing the modal split in the long term, clearing infrastructure bottlenecks and placing safety and quality at the heart of the transport policy. As foreseen, the White Paper on Transport undergoes in 2005 an overall assessment concerning the implementation of the measures it advocates and to check whether its targets - for example, on modal split or road safety - and objectives are being attained or whether adjustments are needed. ASSESS provides technical support to the Commission services for the above mid-term assessment of the White Paper. The analysis accounts for the economic, social and environmental consequences of the proposed measures and their contribution to sustainable development objectives. It provides also a detailed analysis of those effects of enlargement likely to affect the structure and performance of the EU transport system. The study takes a three pillar approach based on the use of analysis, indicators and models. National transport policies are reviewed for compatibility and coherence with the White Paper objectives. The models used allow a detailed analysis of the freight market, the passenger market and their infrastructure networks under a number of scenarios. The effects of the measures in the White Paper on the objectives have been assessed with a modelling and indicator approach. This report focuses on the economic, social and environmental consequences of the White Paper measures and their envisaged and actual contribution to sustainable development objectives for EU25. The objectives with respect to implementing measures are being addressed in Annexes I and II. For each of the four scenario’s (see Annex V), the impact on relevant indicators in given, based on the modelling with SCENES (Annex VI), TREMOVE (Annex VII), CGEurope (Annex VIII), SLAM (Annex IX), the TNO noise model (Annex X), the SWOV safety model (Annex XI), the ASTRA model (Annex XII), and a variety of statistics and literature. (Author/publisher)
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