"Integrated transport policy" for future mobility

Guaranteeing mobility is one of the Federal Government's central transport policy objectives. Due to the complexity of the related tasks, optimisation of transport sector sub-systems is no longer sufficient to meet the future challenges facing our transport system. With its integrated transport policy concept, the Federal Government is therefore implementing a multi-disciplinary policy to optimise the overall system. Besides transport infrastructure framing and funding, all other transport policy sectors, e.g. price and innovation policy, will also be brought together in an overall approach within this.

An "integrated transport policy" working party was set up to examine the political process requirements resulting from the strategic thrust of an integrated transport policy, etc. The working party included economic, industrial, political and scientific representatives.

The working party's report deals with the following topics, etc.:

• Acceptability of an integrated transport system as regards economic, ecological and social sustainability, also in terms of the development, reconstruction and maintenance of transport infrastructure.
• Important integration effects resulting from the consolidation of transport infrastructure, regional planning, regulatory planning and technology. These particularly include low-traffic regional development, reduction of infrastructure requirements and the best possible usage of infrastructure capacities.
• Convergence of political areas such as regional planning and transport, with which integration effects can be enhanced, e.g. promotion of settlement development on important transport arteries, traffic-reducing settlement and location decisions, greater regional orientation, e.g. in the case of production and procurement requiring less traffic.
• Creation of multi-modal networks and an improved interface infrastructure with which, e.g. intermodal transport chains, market placement of intermodal products such as "Rail and Fly" and the market establishment of modern logistical services can be created.
• More efficient capacity utilisation throughout the entire transport infrastructure and the related optimisation of traffic flow thanks to integration effects.
• Macroeconomic and social integration effects due to growth and employment stimuli from the transport sector.
• National economic effects arising from the reduction in environmental pressures and the consequences of accidents.