European White Paper offers some hope for ailing aviation sector but still favours rail

At the end of Mar-2011 the European Commission published its White Paper on Transport, outlining plans to operate aviation in "an environmentally sustainable way" over the next 40 years. It is a weighty document and one that rubs shoulders with individual members’ own policy documents, for example the UK’s airport strategy White Paper, which is (over)-due at some time in 2012. [2793 words]

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This report contains the following subheadings:

• Uneven balance of transport infrastructure between east and west
• Call for improved multimodal networks
• Need to avoid comprising Europe’s ‘global aviation hub’ aspirations
• The strategy – what needs to be done
• EUR1.5 trillion bill for EU infrastructure development
• Extension of the policy beyond boundaries
• Jankovec: rail is not enough