On 12 September 2001, the European Commission adopted a White Paper “European transport policy for 2010: time to decide”. The backbone of the approach was to gradually break the link between transport growth and economic growth (decoupling), most importantly by changing the modal split in the long term. In 2005 the White Paper undergoes 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. This paper describes the objectives of the White Paper, the method applied during the mid-term assessment and outlines some first preliminary results. During the presentation in November the results will be presented, since by that time the results of the mid term assessment will be public. (Author/publisher)
Samenvatting