SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT ACROSS EUROPE Transport Amounts for More Than 30 Percent of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Europe
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SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT ACROSS EUROPE Transport amounts for more than 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. Mobility is a key element of the interconnected European Union and its neighbours. Rail is and has been the way to connect Europe sustainably, by night trains and high-speed connections. The sustainable showcase projects have been chosen in order to raise the interest in ‘ special’ new mobility projects. Night-train providers Historical train connections (services running minimum Nord Express (1886 – 1939 to Russia, 1946 – 1997 to Scandinavia) EUROPEAN ve times a week) MOBILITY ATLAS Side routes Nord Express Facts and Figuresfi gures about Transporttransport andand mobilityMobility in Europe 2021 RENFE (ES) Sud Express (1887 – today, since 1989 only from Henday/Irún) #EUMobilityAtlas eu.boell.org/European-Mobility-Atlas GWR (UK) Side routes Sud Express SERCO (UK) Orient Express (1889 – 1977, on varying routes) TI (IT) Side routes Orient Express Narvik ÖBB (AT) GO AHEAD (NO) VY (NO) Bodø Kolari SJ (SE) Ferry connections Haparanda Line CD (CZ) Reopening of the railway line Kemijärvi HZ (HR) between Boden and Hapanranda (SE) for passenger trains with a PKP (PL) possible extension to Rovaniemi MAV (HU) and Oulu (FI), making it the only Sustainable showcase projects rail connection between Sweden MZT (MK) and Finnland. ATC (RO) CFR (RO) Aurora Botnia VR (FI) Mobility of the future LNG-Battery Hybrid Ferry BDŽ (BG) Trondheim Umeå UZ (UA) Trampe Bicycle Lift Duved TCDD (TR) Trondheim FI SE Vaasa RZD (RU) Sundsvall Motorail Helsinki Comprehensive “Mobility as a Service”– Infrastructure and App, covering public transport, taxis, bike-sharing etc. High-speed train connections Volvo EUROPEAN MOBILITY 2021 ATLAS All cars produced in 2020 and Turku later will have their top speed Helsinki Tallinn ≈ h:min Bergen restricted to 180km/h Free Public Transport Saint Petersburg Oslo for the citizens Örebro Stockholm Sande®ord MS Viking Grace Stavanger LNG Ferry with Tallinn rotor sail Strömstad EE Color Hybrid Rail Baltica Largest plug-in Development of a railroad corridor, ex- pected to be completed in the late 2020s Inverness diesel/electric Solaris Nightstar LV between Tallinn (EE) (potentially Helsinki Aberdeen hybrid vessel Gothen- Poland has a strong tradition in Proposed sleeper from bus assembly; the biggest produ- (FI)) and Warsaw via Latvia and Lithuania. Fort William burg Riga the UK to continental E-ferry Ellen cers of electric buses in Europe Europe. Construction Largest Di¯erent with just under 25% market share of rolling stock (based electric ferry Hybrid is now the Bolechowo based com- on the Eurostar) was Glasgow Ferries pany Solaris. Daugavpils All routes lead ongoing until the pro- Malmö Edinburgh Bremen DK to Moscow ject was abandoned Copen- Green Charge due to competition Fynshav hagen MS Copenhagen Project in coopera- Rødby Hybrid Ferry LT Vilnius from low-cost airlines. Søby Gedser Gdynia tion with Barcelona with rotor sail Kaliningrad European Union and Oslo. Innovative Puttgarden Rostock Świnoujście With its “Sustainable charging project for and Smart Mobility electric vehicles, incl. Hamburg Szczecin prebooking, battery Strategy” the EU aims PL Białystok IE exchange etc. at putting European Berlin Bolechowo transport on track for Warsaw UK Amsterdam 5:00 Subsidised e-taxis a sustainable future. Scrappage scheme for Swansea 3:30 Dortmund taxis up to €20,000 NL 5:30 available for eligible dri- EN Phoenix London 1:00 Brussels Amsterdam – vers switching to a new 1:30 3:00 Kyiv Plymouth Cologne Prague until 2015 all-electric vehicle and 1:00 DE Przemysl up to €32,500 for those Luxembourg Lille BE Slovakian Rail moving to a wheel chair Free Nationwide Public Prague Free rail transport for people under 16 and over 62 Penzance LU Frankfurt 5:00 accessible full electric Transport for everybody 2:00 CZ Zakopane years of age, all students (under 26yrs) and pen- sioners who are residents of EU member states. vehicle. 2:00 Stutt- Kosice 1:30 Paris SK gart Linz Strasbourg Vienna EN Venezia Rennes 3:00 Munich AT Budapest Zurich Salzburg Budapest – Venice until 2011 Basel Graz FR 6:30 Cluj-Napoca EuroNight (EN) Francisco de Goya 3:00 Innsbruck Chișinău Odessa Arad RO Paris – Madrid until 2013 2:00 HU SI Ljubljana EN Joan Miró Milan Timișoara Paris – Barcelona Turin Trieste Zagreb HR until 2013 Venice Belgrade Bordeaux Bucharest “Ljubljana. For you” Bucharest 3:00 50 km of bicycle lanes Removing cars from the city announced to deal with centre and consequently Portugese Bike Valley Hendaye Livorno the Covid-19 induced European hub for improving the living quality. traffic changes. EN Salvador Dalí bicycle tech develop- Vitoria-Gasteiz Marseille BG Milan – Barcelona Soa ment, located east Vigo Sofia Burgas until 2012 of Aveira, aiming at Introduction of a hollistic IT- becoming the centre based Park-and-Ride System. Rome of the European bike Istanbul PT Barcelona EN Pau Casals Naples industry. 3:00 Zurich – Barcelona until 2012 Thessaloniki IT Madrid 1:30 Lecce Valencia Barcelona Albergo Diffuso Rolling Highway Introduction of car- Reviving “dying” small, historic EL A form of combined transport 2:30 ES free “superblocks”. villages and town centres off the involving the conveying of road Lisbon usual tourist track by being part Palermo trucks by rail, referred to as Ro-La of a genuine community. Igoumenitsa trains. The concept is a form of Certified sustainable port, Athens piggyback transportation that Malaga focussing on air quality, crosses geographical barriers, in alternative fuels and social the case shown combined with a MT responsability. RoRo ferry service. CY.