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Intermodalitiy and Intermodal Cargo Transport in the European Union

Efficient transport system is an essential prerequisite for the competitivness of the european Unuion. The predicted increase in international trade, sudden expansions of the Union to the middle and eastern European countries and wider co-operation of the Mediterarranean countries will make the role of transportation eve more significant. Unless the transport industry reconsiders its requirement for modal-independent services and uses the additional capacities in others modes of transport, the road traffic is likely to further increase its share in the market, which amounts today to 72%. In order to achieve social, economic,and ecological sustainability, efficient and balanced use of existing capacities in the overall traffic system of Europe has become the key challenge. Therefore, the Communuty, among other things, strives towards real balance of tke business policy which gives preference to the developement of unique, integrated traffic systems for theb Community as a whole. Promoting intermodality is a means of business policy which enables systemic approach to traffic. Traffic service are offered as modally independent links from home to home, based on a series of feasible alternatives regarding transport mode trough a new, effi9cient implementation of the traffic system thus reducing the transport costs ind enabling creation of additional values.

intermodal cargo transport; integrated traffic system; efficiency; competitiveness

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