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TraXion A/S, and in Germany RAG Ruhrkohle Hafen und Bahn AG. Certain shipping lines
and terminal operators already have holdings in railroad companies as well. In Hamburg, for
example, HHLA has a stake in Metrans (Czech Republic) and Polzug (Poland), which handle
hinterland transport with Central and Eastern Europe.
6.2.3 Regulating the roads
Last but not least, EU transport policy will intervene especially to regulate road transport. The
primary objectives will be:
the reduction of conventional emissions caused by traffic as well as of traffic-related greenhouse
gas emissions;
the efficient shaping of the existing infrastructure with the help of modern transport and
vehicle technology;
increased traffic safety.
The results of active, market-oriented domestic transport policy or a harmonized, deregulated
EU transport policy71 can be summarized as follows:
Environmental regulations will become more stringent, and/or environmental levies will
be increased.
New, optimized methods of transport management will be sought. The registration, prediction
and influencing of traffic volume will be decisively improved, for example, through
use of the Galileo Satellite System, which will be operational beginning in 2010 and which
will transmit appropriate navigation signals. 72
Road construction will be increasingly regulated by factors relating to material sustainability
and the reduction of energy costs.
Driver assistance systems (distance and lane holding and driver monitoring systems) will
be promoted.
Traffic control will be managed more and more through infrastructure charges. Electronic
road pricing falls in this segment.
Tolls that are linked to utilization loads and emissions will play an increasingly important
role in the coming decades, not only for trucks, but for cars as well. Income thus generated
will be channeled into traffic infrastructure projects, so that the expansion in road infrastructure
will, in the final analysis, be financed by the users.
Privatization of highways and federal trunk roads will progress, so that here, too, toll income
will basically finance investments in maintenance, expansion and operation.
Public funds thus made available will be used for the expansion of the rail and inland
waterway networks.
71 See Institut für Mobilitätsforschung (2005).
72 Not only is the Galileo program the first European infrastructure program of global dimensions,
but this is the first time a major project is being funded by several European countries as a publicprivate
partnership model (see Chapter 7). In Germany, the “Program for traffic control on federal
highways 2002-2007” is currently being financed with federal funds amounting to €200 mn.
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