Acceptability of Transport Pricing Measures Among Public and Professionals in Europe

2003 ◽  
Vol 1839 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Link ◽  
John Polak
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
The Road ◽  
Factors Influencing

Transport pricing has been an actively debated topic in the European Union for a number of years. This debate has been stimulated both by the European Commission policy and by a multitude of national policy initiatives. A central theme in this debate is the issue of the public and (linked to this) political acceptability of pricing measures. Indeed, concerns about acceptability now constitute the most significant single barrier to implementation, especially in the road transport sector. The results of recent research undertaken on behalf of the European Commission into the acceptability of different transport pricing measures to professionals and citizens and the factors influencing their acceptability are reported.

scholarly journals Overview of recent cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union (September 2020-December 2020)

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Pauline Melin
Keyword(s):  
Maternity Leave ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Road ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Grand Chamber ◽  
Primary Carer

The reporting period (September 2020-December 2020) was a particularly intense time in terms of important judgments on social security with no fewer than four judgments from the Grand Chamber of the Court. This overview reports five cases in total. First, there are three cases on the Posted Workers Directive. The first two are on the dismissal of the annulment procedures regarding the adoption of the new Posted Workers Directive (Directive 2018/957) started by Hungary (C-620/18) and Poland (C-626/18). Then, the FNV case (C-815/18), which is on the application of the Posted Workers Directive (Directive 96/71) to the transnational provision of services in the road transport sector, is discussed. The overview continues onto other subjects, with a follow-up of the Dano and Alimanovic saga in the Job Center Krefeld case (C-181/19), which relates to the access to social assistance for a job-seeker who is the primary carer of a child receiving education in the host Member State. From there, commentary is given on the A v. Veselï bas ministrija case, which deals with the difficult balance between the freedom of religion and the system of prior authorization for planned healthcare. Finally, the Syndicat CFTC case (C-463/19) is reviewed, and it concerns the conditions under which an additional maternity leave can be reserved to female workers without being considered as discriminatory.

scholarly journals The Biomethane Injection into the Natural Gas Networks: The EU’s Gas Synergy Path

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-50
Author(s):  
J. Savickis ◽  
L. Zemite ◽  
N. Zeltins ◽  
I. Bode ◽  
L. Jansons ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Gas Networks ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Eu

AbstractBiomethane is one of the most promising renewable gases (hereafter – RG) – a flexible and easily storable fuel, and, when used along with the natural gas in any mixing proportion, no adjustments on equipment designed to use natural gas are required. In regions where natural gas grids already exist, there is a system suitable for distribution of the biomethane as well. Moreover, improving energy efficiency and sustainability of the gas infrastructure, it can be used as total substitute for natural gas. Since it has the same chemical properties as natural gas, with methane content level greater than 96 %, biomethane is suitable both for heat and electricity generation, and the use in transport.Biomethane is injected into the natural gas networks of many Member States of the European Union (hereafter – the EU) on a regular basis for more than a decade, with the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Sweden and France being among pioneers in this field. In most early cases, permission to inject biomethane into the natural gas grids came as part of a policy to decarbonize the road transport sector and was granted on a case-by-case basis. The intention to legally frame and standardise the EU’s biomethane injection into the natural gas networks came much later and was fulfilled in the second half of the present decade.This paper addresses the biomethane injection into the natural gas grids in some EU countries, highlights a few crucial aspects in this process, including but not limited to trends in standardisation and legal framework, injection conditions and pressure levels, as well as centralised biogas feedstock collection points and the biomethane injection facilities. In a wider context, the paper deals with the role of biomethane in the EU energy transition and further use of the existing natural gas networks.

scholarly journals The future of Sustainable Biofuels towards the 2°C target: forecasting process, technologies and sector demands

2021 ◽  
Vol 238 ◽  
pp. 08002
Author(s):  
David Chiaramonti ◽  
Giacomo Talluri
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Critical Element ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Passenger Cars ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

Introducing sustainable fuels in the different transport fields in the EU is a very challenging goal, but also a clear priority in the EU decarbonization strategy. In fact, the transport sector is extremely rigid and regulated, with consolidated norms and standards and well-defined economics. Adding more oxygenated components to the fuel mix is also limited by the so-called blend-wall: thus, the share of renewable drop-in hydrocarbons has been recently growing worldwide and in the European Union. However, as a large part of these relates to lipids, the supply of sustainable feedstock has become the major critical element of the value chain. Fast-growing demand from new sectors as Aviation also emerged, that together with Heavy Duty and Maritime represent the focus of the EC strategy, complementary to the electrification of the road transport, passenger cars and light duty vehicles. Introducing innovative processes at full commercial scale requires to overcome the Mountain of Death of processes, where the bankability of not yet demonstrated technologies is the core problem. This work addresses the impact of the EU policy scenario, depicting the status of the different process and technologies, both Bio-based and Recycled Carbon, on the Mountain of Death.

Private Provision of Public Services

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demi Chung
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Risk Allocation ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Road ◽  
Current Risk

The first public–private partnership (PPP) motorway in Australia was open to traffic more than two decades ago, and yet no comprehensive evaluation of PPPs in the road transport sector has been sighted. It is the intention of this chapter to fill this gap. Although there have been noticeable advancements in contract design and use of incentive mechanisms to optimize risk allocation between the public and private sectors, Australian PPP motorways have yet to deliver an optimal outcome. It is questionable whether the current risk-shifting approach in the present PPP paradigm is suitable for providing infrastructure-based road services where long-term service provision is a requirement. In such cases, a proactive risk management approach may be preferred.

scholarly journals Aspects Concerning The Rules And The Investigation Of Traffic Accidents As Work Accidents

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-175
Author(s):  
Lucian Ioan Tarnu
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Great Success ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Road ◽  
Concept Of Health ◽  
International Body ◽  
Work Accidents

Abstract When Romania joined the European Union, it was imposed that the Romanian legislation in the field of the security and health at work be in line with the European one. The concept of health as it is defined by the International Body of Health, refers to a good physical, mental and social condition. The improvement of the activity of preventing the traffic accidents as work accidents must have as basis the correct and accurate evaluation of risks of getting injured. The goal of the activity of prevention and protection is to ensure the best working conditions, the prevention of accidents and occupational diseases and the adjustment to the scientific and technological progress. In the road transport sector, as in any other sector, it is very important to pay attention to working conditions to ensure a workforce motivated and well qualified. Some features make it a more difficult sector risk management than other sectors. However, if one takes into account how it works in practice this sector and the characteristics of drivers and how they work routinely, risks, dangers and threats can be managed efficiently and with great success.

Legal and organizational basis for ensuring road safety in the Ukrainian SSR in 1948–1953

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-56
Author(s):  
Maksim P. Tishakov
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Safety System ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Socialist Republic ◽  
Soviet Socialist Republic ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Government

The work, based on previously little available for research, as well as materials and documents found in archival institutions, reflects the legal basis for ensuring road safety in 1948-1953, the state and organizational and legal measures taken in the field of combating accidents in road transport at the republican level by the example Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Attention is focused on the key problems that determine the development of the road safety system, the measures taken, their effectiveness, mistakes and achievements. Measures to counteract accidents in vehicles are investigated from a historical and legal standpoint, a critical and detailed analysis of decrees and orders of the government, departmental regulatory legal acts. It was found that the presence of a significant number of administrative decisions of the republican authorities of Soviet Ukraine, although it was a rather progressive step for its time, did not fully take into account the reality of achieving the set goals, local conditions and peculiarities. At the same time, the functioning of the emerging road safety system was significantly hampered by the lack of a unified national policy in the context of the rapid growth and development of the country’s automobile and road complex.

Substantiation of factors of influence on traffic safety

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (23) ◽  
pp. 205-213
Author(s):  
Andrii Vozniuk ◽  
◽  
Oksana Hulchak ◽  
Volodymyr Kaskiv ◽  
Yevheniia Shapenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Traffic Flow ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Transport Process ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Safety Risk ◽  
The Road ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Factors Of Influence

Збірник наукових праць «ДОРОГИ І МОСТИ» www.dorogimosti.org.uaISSN 2524-0994. Dorogi i mosti, 2021. Issue 23ТРАНСПОРТНІ ТЕХНОЛОГІЇ21312. Annual safety report 2018. URL: https://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/sites/roadsafety/files/pdf/statistics/dacota/asr2018.pdf (Last accessed: 01.12.2020) [in English].13. Monitorynh dorozhno-transportnykh pryhod na avtomobilnykh dorohakh zahalnoho korystuvannya derzhavnoho znachennya Ukrayiny za 2018 rik [Monitoring of road accidents on public roads of state importance of Ukraine in 2018] : report. DP «DerzhdorNDI». Kyiv, 2019. 73 p. [in Ukrainian].14. Dmytrychenko M.F., Lanovyy O.T., Polishchuk V.P. Systemolohiya na transporti. Tekhnolohiya naukovykh doslidzhen’ i tekhnichnoyi tvorchosti (Knyha 2) [Systemology in transport. Technology of scientific research and technical creativity (Book 2)]. Kyiv, 2007. 318 p. [in Ukrainian].15. Duran B., Odel P. Klasterniy analiz [Cluster Analysis]. Moscow, 1977. 128 p. [in Russian].16. Zhambu M. Yerarkhycheskii klaster-analiz i sootvetstviya [Hierarchical cluster analysis and correspondences]. Moscow, 1988. 342 p. [in Russian].17. Holdberg A.M., Kozlov V.S. Obshchaya teoriya statistiki [General theory of statistics]. Moscow, 1985. 367 p. [in Russian].Volodymyr Kaskiv1, Ph.D., Associate Prof., https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8074-6798Yevheniia Shapenko2, Ph.D., https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0937-9400Oksana Hulchak2, Ph.D., Associate Prof., https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8186-4529Andrii Vozniuk3,https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7611-96521 M.P. Shulgin State Road Research Institute State Enterprise – DerzhdorNDI SE, Kyiv, Ukraine2 National Transport University, Kyiv, Ukraine 3 State Road Agency of Ukraine (Ukravtodor), Kyiv, Ukraine SUBSTANTIATION OF FACTORS OF INFLUENCE ON TRAFFIC SAFETYAbsractVelocity of personal vehicles or traffic flow for a certain period of time and on a certain section of the road is the main indicator that characterizes the impact of road conditions, environment, technical condition of the car and psychophysiological factors on the driver.To evaluate the each factor impact of on the velocity, survey was conducted on the M-06Kyiv – Chop road. A cluster analysis of field observation data was performed using the Statistica 12 software, connections were established in the middle of the data set, and the obtained data were organized into certain structures. As a result of the clustering, groups of clusters that have the greatest impact on speed were identified. Determining the hierarchy of factors influencing the speed and safety of the transport process shall improve approaches for modeling traffic flow velocity dependences. The paper describes an analysis of road safety risk factors.Problem Statement. The need to modernize approaches for traffic flow prediction, traffic volume distribution on the road network, means and methods of traffic management, traffic management systems in connection with quantitative and qualitative changes in the transport sector of Ukraine.Purpose. Road safety risk factors validation and ranking.Materials and method. Mathematical modeling and cluster analysis using survey data.Results. The dependence of speed on road conditions was improved using mathematical modeling.Conclusions. The hierarchy of factors influencing the speed and safety of the transport process is determined.Keywords: analysis, cluster, safety, road, method, model, velocity.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Effects of Electrification of the Road Transport Sector on the Possible Penetration of Nuclear Fusion in the Long-Term European Energy Mix

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 3634
Author(s):  
Daniele Lerede ◽  
Chiara Bustreo ◽  
Francesco Gracceva ◽  
Yolanda Lechón ◽  
Laura Savoldi
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Fusion ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
The Other ◽  
Electricity Production ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Deep Penetration ◽  
The Road

The European Roadmap towards the production of electricity from nuclear fusion foresees the potential availability of nuclear fusion power plants (NFPPs) in the second half of this century. The possible penetration of that technology, typically addressed by using the global energy system EUROFusion TIMES Model (ETM), will depend, among other aspects, on its costs compared to those of the other available technologies for electricity production, and on the future electricity demand. This paper focuses on the ongoing electrification process of the transport sector, with special attention devoted to road transport. A survey on the present and forthcoming technologies, as foreseen by several manufacturers and other models, and an international vehicle database are taken into account to develop the new road transport module, then implemented and harmonized inside ETM. Following three different storylines, the computed results are presented in terms of the evolution of the road transport demand in the next decades, fleet composition and CO 2 emissions. The ETM results are in line with many other studies. On one hand, they highlight, for the European road transport energy consumption pattern, the need for dramatic changes in the transport market, if the most ambitious environmental goals are to be pursued. On the other hand, the results also show that NFPP adoption on a commercial scale could be justified within the current projection of the investment costs, if the deep penetration of electricity in the road transport sector also occurs.

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