EU TRANSPORT POLICY - NEW DEVELOPMENTS

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EU TRANSPORT POLICY - NEW DEVELOPMENTS

• Tamás Fleischer
• Institute for World Economicsof the Hungarian
  Academy of Sciences
• http//www.vki.hu/tfleisch
• lttfleisch_at_vki.hugt

Working Group EU-Relations Alps Adriatic
Working Community12th Meeting, Pécs, Europe
House 28th April, 2005
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Transport Policy of the European Union comments
from a new member state
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Transport Policy of the European Union comments
from a new member state
Hungarian Transport Policy 2003-2015
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Transport Policy of the European Union comments
from a new member state
1990
Hungarian Transport Policy 2003-2015
2004
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Transport Policy of the European Union comments
from a new member state
1990
Time to decide 2001
Hungarian Transport Policy 2003-2015
2004
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1990
White Paper 1992
Time to decide 2001
Hungarian Transport Policy 2003-2015
2004
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1990
White Paper 1992
Hungarian Transport Policy 1996
Time to decide 2001
Hungarian Transport Policy 2003-2015
2004
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1990
White Paper 1992
Trans-European Networks
Hungarian Transport Policy 1996
Time to decide 2001
Hungarian Transport Policy 2003-2015
2004
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1990
White Paper 1992
Trans-European Networks
Hungarian Transport Policy 1996
Pan-European Corridors, TINA
Time to decide 2001
Hungarian Transport Policy 2003-2015
2004
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1990
White Paper 1992
Trans-European Networks
Hungarian Transport Policy 1996
Pan-European Corridors, TINA
Time to decide 2001
Hungarian Transport Policy 2003-2015
A TEN revision 2004 (29 April)
2004
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Common Transport Policy (CTP) of the European
Union 1992

• Before 1992
• There was no integrated transport policy in the
  union, single sectorial targets main
  motivation was the regulation of the competition
• EU CTP 1992 Single network to the single market
• Integrated transport policy but focus on one
  single layer (international level)
• Inter-modality, interoperability gt, free access,
  corridors, TEN-T, single market
• Comparing the characteristics of western and
  eastern European transport transport
  performance / unite of GDP, accidents, modal
  split (rail/road ratio) EU-25év CEE15 év

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Common Transport Policy (CTP) of the European
Union 1992
Illustration of the necessity of
interoperability differences in voltage and
electricity systems of railways of Europe
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TEN and its extension to the east
Source Az országos közúthálózat 1991-2000 évekre
szóló-fejlesztési programja 1991, KHVM. The birth
of corridor thinking, renumbering the roads in
1975
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TEN and its extension to the east

• What does the eastern extension of the TEN means ?

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TEN and its extension to the east

• Extension of the grid toward the east

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TEN and its extension to the east

• Prolongation of the east-west corridors

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TEN and its extension to the east

• Prolongation of the east-west corridors

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TEN and its extension to the east

• Prolongation of the east-west corridors

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TEN and its extension to the east

• Prolongation of the east-west corridors

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TEN and its extension to the east
Source http//www.khvm.hu/EU-integracio/A_magyaro
rszagi_TINA_halozat/Image11.gif Helsinki, or
Pan-European transport corridors
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Dilemmas of the Central European Transport
Policy in time of EU Enlargement

• (1) Corridors (TEN) in western Europe were based
  on the internal demand of the area, namely on the
  necessity of the interconnection of well
  developed national networks (Common network to
  the common market)
• (2) In the eastern part of Europe the starting
  point was external the extension of the TEN
  network toward the east. Its priority is
  exaggerated in countries where internal
  connections also would need enforcement
• (3) Furthermore, in Hungary interregional
  corridors are planned in a mistaken structure,
  strengthening the earlier single-centred hierarchy

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TEN and its extension to the east
Hungary plans to lead the transit traffic through
its most heavily loaded areas that would need
rather protection
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EU Transport Policy 2001 Time to Decide
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EU Transport Policy 2001 Time to Decide

• Main problems to solve congestion, isolated
  regions, quality problems, deteriorated
  environment, accidents
• Balance of the consequences of the 1992 CTP
• Main target decoupling the link between the
  economic and the transport growth - focus on
  road transport through charging, - with
  efficiency measures in other modes, - targeted
  investments into the TEN networks
• Sixty measures in four blocks. - shift the
  balance between modes of transport, - eliminate
  bottlenecks, - place users at the heart of
  transport policy, - manage the globalisation of
  transport.

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EU Transport Policy 2001 Time to Decide
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Summary

• A transport policy collects the governmental
  strategies promoting the operation and
  development of activities belonging to the
  transport sector.
• The basic documents of the transport policy of
  the past decade are the White Papers (CTP) of the
  European Union in 1992 and in 2001 (Time to
  Decide) while in Hungary the national Transport
  Policy of 1996 and 2004.
• The documents of the EU earlier focused mainly on
  the overlay level of the networks between the
  single countries. Copying the unchanged priority
  of the construction of the corridors in domestic
  transport policies can be considered as a
  mistake.
• Besides exaggerated priority of inter-regional
  axes, the Hungarian planners lead the through
  traffic across the conurbation of Budapest, in a
  single-centred structure, and built on that
  structure also the network of the logistic
  centres.

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EU TRANSPORT POLICY - NEW DEVELOPMENTS

• Tamás Fleischer
• Institute for World Economicsof the Hungarian
  Academy of Sciences
• http//www.vki.hu/tfleisch
• lttfleisch_at_vki.hugt

THANKS FOR THE ATTENTION
Working Group EU-Relations Alps Adriatic
Working Community12th Meeting, Pécs, Europe
House 28th April, 2005