Commission publishes first EU Transport Scoreboard
11 Apr 2014 03:35 PM
The European Commission
has published a scoreboard on transport in the EU. It compares Member
State performance in 22 transport-related categories. The Netherlands and
Germany top the scoreboard with high scores in 11 categories, followed by
Sweden, the UK and Denmark.
The aim of this first EU Transport Scoreboard is to give a snapshot
of the diversity of Member State performance in transport matters across Europe
and to help Member States identify shortcomings and define priorities for
investment and policies. It brings together data from a variety of sources
(such as Eurostat, the European Environment Agency, the World Bank and the
OECD). The Commission's intention is to refine the indicators in the years
to come, in dialogue with Member States, industry and other stakeholders, and
to track Member State progress over time.
Commission Vice-President Siim
Kallas, responsible for mobility and transport, said: "The new scoreboard
is a fantastic tool that shows visually where we stand in making our transport
systems more efficient, more customer-friendly, safer and cleaner. It can of
course only offer a snapshot, but it gives us and Member States a point of
reference and a source of inspiration for our work
together."
The scoreboard can be consulted
either by mode of transport (road, rail, waterborne, air) or by one of the
following categories:
-
Single market (access to market,
regulation)
-
Infrastructure
-
Environmental
impact
-
Safety
-
Transposition of EU
law
-
Infringements of EU
law
-
Innovation and research,
and
-
Logistics.
In most of the resulting tables,
the top five performers are marked in green and the bottom five performers in
red.
The scoreboard is complemented
by country-specific statistics without rankings (expenditure on transport,
share of the different modes of transport, expenditure of EU funding in the
area of transport).
Please see MEMO/14/277 for more information country by
country.
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