TRANSPORT IN THE NINETIES. THE SHAPING OF EUROPE

Abstract

This report is about the institutional changes and the investment needed to create a transport infrastructure that is European in scale. It also includes information on several national motorway programmes and the different approaches of countries with mature and still incomplete networks. It describes the problem of road traffic congestion, and measures to reduce it, including the development and use of modern electronic traffic management techniques. Some examples of car and highway electronics are briefly described: (1) Systeme Integre de Regulation et d'Information des Usagers (SIRIUS), which is being installed on the expressways around Paris to provide drivers with information on alternative routes; (2) AUTOGUIDE, a driver navigation system, which GEC will install in London under licence from the Department of Transport; (3) automatic toll collection to be used in the Netherlands initially to finance motor tunnels; (4) ALISCOUT an in-car navigation system being developed in Berlin as a commercial service not a public utility; and (5) some experiments with electronic road pricing systems in Europe are briefly mentioned. Measures to protect the environment, the task of attaching the 'polluter pays' principle to cars and lorries, and problems associated with vehicle noise are discussed. In the final chapter aspects of financing Europe's transport infrastructure are outlined.

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