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In October 2001 the European Commission, the administrative arm of the European Union (EU), published its new transport policy document with the subtitle ‘Time to Decide’ (EC, 2001 http://europa.eu.int/comm/energy_transport/en/lb_en.html ). Clearly the Commission has already decided that transport conditions in Europe for over 300 million citizens are rather poor now and are set to deteriorate even further by the year 2010, which is the time horizon of the transport policy document. Sadly the Commission set the whole transport policy debate within a very unimaginative context of some modest modal shift (less use of road and more use of rail) and some suggestions for charging lorries (road haulage vehicles) for their use of road space.
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Whitelegg, J. (2003). Transport in the European Union: Time to Decide. In: Low, N., Gleeson, B. (eds) Making Urban Transport Sustainable. Global Issues Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523838_7
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