MEPs want 30 km/h zones
MEPs have supported a resolution that ‘strongly recommends’ 30 km/h speed limits in all residential areas.
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Cohesion Funds for transport and the 'Connecting Europe Facility'
Briefing on how Europe should provide incentives for greener transport projects in its transport spending plans.
Alternative fuels strategy
The Commission is consulting on its plans for an alternative fuels strategy, which will form part of the EU’s transport policy for the next 10 years.
Funding for transport infrastructure in the new EU budget
On 29 June 2011, the Commission proposed a new seven-year EU budget (Multiannual Financial Framework, MFF) that covers EU public expenditure between 2014 and 2020. This paper summarises the transport-relevant parts of the MFF and attempts to check whether it can help ‘decarbonise’ the transport sector.
Are electrics really more climate-friendly than other cars?
Fears that electric and hybrid cars are no better environmentally than oil-fuelled cars have led to a study which shows that electrics and hybrids are better over the whole of their life, but not by as much as was originally thought.
Successful speed limit abandoned
Spain is to abandon its temporary 110 km/h motorway speed limit.
Money for roadside victims
Hungary’s supreme court has awarded financial compensation to two residents who complained that their lives were made a misery and their houses reduced in value by speeding lorries along highway 86 in the west of the country.
Free car for child-free couples … and for the Pope
Officials in the Indian province of Rajasthan are so worried about population growth that they are offering couples a free car if they allow themselves to be sterilised.
Road transport drags down air pollution efforts
Road transport is again dragging down efforts to reduce air pollution across the EU. The latest report on compliance with the directive that sets National Emissions Ceilings for four pollutants shows 10 countries and the EU as a whole failing on nitrogen oxides emissions, largely because road transport is failing to deliver expected cuts.
CO2 continues to rise
Transport use in non-OECD countries is expected to grow by about five times between 2000 and 2050, according to ‘Transport Outlook 2011’, a report by the International Transport Forum.