the UIRR exhorts the EU to put into effect legislative modifications in order to promote the arranged transport



The International Union for Road-Rail Combined Transport (UIRR), trade association of the transport arranged with center to Brussels, has exhorted the European Union to introduce modifications to the communitarian legislation to the aim to promote the development of the arranged transport and to stop the increase of the transit of heavy motor vehicles through the Alps, traffic that cause congestion, pollution and a accelerated degradation of street infrastructures.

Doing again to relationship introduced in recent days from EurActiv, that it evidences as this year on the A12 freeway that joins Austria with Italy through the Step of Brenner is very journeyed two million truck in more regarding 2014, "undesired increase of the road traffic" - has explained UIRR - that it has been favorite "from collapse of the price of the oil and consequently of the price of the diesel oil" and from "inadequate highway tolls that do not reflect the costs of all on the road the externalities connected to the transport", the association of the arranged transport has found that "both factors produce a lowering ofthe transport costs goods on the road, a reduction that the rail shipment goods, and in particular the operators of the arranged transport, is able to not to equal". "The price of the energetic consumption for the traction, than in increasing measure comes from renewable sources - it has remembered the UIRR - is not in correlation with that of the diesel engine and the oil, while the rights of access to the traces are quite in increase, more recently because of their correlation with the internalizzazione of the acoustic pollution of the rail shipment".

Emphasizing that "the arranged transport, is in its version of the transport not accompanied that in that of accompanied transport (RoLa), offers an excellent solution in order to attenuate the negative consequences of this undesired increase of the traffic of heavy motor vehicles", the UIRR has found that "a series of measures of regulation in order to correct the signs that the shippers receive relatively to the rates, to the aim would be however necessary to make the right choice".

In particular, second the UIRR, "the normative of the European Union on the taxation of the energetic produced ones, unchanged picture from 2003, would have to be deeply see again in order to update the method of calculation of the taxes so as to reflect the energetic content of the fuel (necessary in order to value the levels minimums of octrois) and to interiorize the gas emissions greenhouse and the externalities of the dependency from the oil, while the Eurovignette directive, that the last time is modified five years ago, would have to obligate to replace the current circulation with tolls based on the distance being encouraged the use of rate making to time (cartoons) and would have also to demandinternalizzazione of all the external costs of the street transport that currently are at the expense of the contributors: congestion, acoustic pollution and polluting emissions, incidents and destruction of the biodiversity".

"The relative signs to the rates perceived today from the operators of the market - it has emphasized the president of the UIRR, Ralf-Charley Schultze - are forged by an inadequate and unilateral regulation, that it must be quickly modified if we want to preserve the quality of the life to which we are accustomed in Europe. It is the directive on the taxation of the energy that on the highway tolls must be urgently dawned in order to safeguard the living conditions which the citizens in all enjoy the European Union".