01006658

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/1909-11

http://scholar.google.com...turm&publication_year=2005

As a result of the July 1999 European Summit held in Gothenburg, Sweden, all European Union policy areas are subject to the guiding principle of sustainable development. Within this context, the European Commission published a white paper on transport policy to 2010, focusing on the need to foster more environmentally and socially sustainable means of transport to achieve a modal shift away from road transport. The white paper mentions inland navigation as a mode with great potential to contribute to a shift toward more sustainable modes than roads and recognizes that among other measures, infrastructural improvements must be realized on the European waterways. However, European environmental legislation, namely, the Water Framework Directive (WFD), is likely to challenge the strategy of necessary improvements on European waterways. The target conflict arising from environmental legislation that is capable of contradicting efforts to ensure sustainability in the transport sector is examined. Within this context, several aspects of WFD are described: development; the current implementation status in the national law of European Union member states and the potential consequences for waterway infrastructure, dredging, and navigability; and the general role of inland navigation in a competitive transport market. Possible instruments foreseen in the WFD to balance the interests of environmental concerns and those of the navigation sector are also addressed.

01006646

English

pp 74-81

2005

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

0309093821

Print

Figures (6) ; References (2) ; Tables (1)

Environmental policy; Improvements; Inland waterways

European Union; Water Framework Directive (Europe)

Europe

Administration and Management; Environment; Marine Transportation; Policy

TRIS, TRB

Oct 25 2005 3:46PM

• Elasticity of Demand for Barged Corn Shipments on the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway
• European Transport Policy and Role of the Danube River
• Geographical Characterization of Ship Traffic and Emissions
• Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund
• Long-Term Forecasting of World Grain Trade and U.S. Gulf Exports
• Measuring Nontraditional Benefits and Costs of Inland Navigation
• Model of Spatial Market Areas and Transportation Demand
• Multiscenario, Spatially Detailed Forecasting of Utility Steam Coal for the Ohio River Navigation System
• Oil Spills in Maritime Transport: Call for Action
• Rural Water Transport and Development: Grand-Lahou Region, Ivory Coast
• Study of Short-Run Grain Movements on the Inland Waterway System
• Understanding Grain Movements for Demand Estimation: The Columbia-Snake River System in Washington State
• Who Gains from and Who Pays for Channel Deepening? The Proposed Delaware Channel Project in Delaware