The Transport and Tourism Committee has adopted the new rules to be applied on the trans-European transport (TEN-T), which is the EU’s plan to build a network of railways, roads, inland waterways and short sea shipping routes connected through ports and terminals across the European Union.
Sustainability
TRAN Committee calls for sustainable transport in each displacement mode, through common and unified standards, for both technical and operational measures. Specifically, it stresses that intermodal transport should be primarily done by rail, inland waterways or short-sea shipping, while any initial and/or final legs can be carried out by road.
This should result into fully electrified railways in the core TEN-T network, running with at least of 160 km/h passenger and 100 km/h cargo trains, which could cross internal EU borders in less than 15 minutes by the end of 2030.
