Title: Railfreight: On the Right Lines? - The Report of Phase Two of the Green Links in Europe Project
Abstract: This report casts its recommendations in the context of the debate on the relationship between transport policy and environmental issues. The starting point of the Green Links Steering Group was that in the medium term economic growth is the driving force by which the problem of unemployment must be confronted. Local authorities are also keen to transfer freight from road to rail and to create jobs in peripheral regions by investing in railways as opposed to more road infrastructure. The research has however demonstrated the complexity of the interaction between the economic, transport and environmental dimensions of the project, and alternative perspectives are outlined. The aim is to inform the debate on European and British transport policy by taking a distinctive east-west view and to illustrate what is needed to build a future for railfreight. After the introduction the Report describes and analyses aspects of freight transport in Europe - modes, players, relationships, the marketplace, geography and economics (Chapters 2 and 3). The next two chapters discuss policy issues, first at the level of the European Union (Chapter 4) and then in Britain (Chapter 5). The practical and policy conclusions are brought together in an assessment of freight strategies for Britain (Chapter 6). These ideas are developed in chapters dealing with Humberside (Chapter 7) and the Pennines (Chapter 8). A final chapter looks at Ireland (Chapter 9). Green perspectives are introduced at various points as appropriate. (A)
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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