The proportion of 🇪🇺 freight transported by road (≈77%) is still rising📈
Efforts to move freight off the roads have not been effective in removing barriers that penalise other modes of transport.
🌱These issues need to be addressed if the EU wants to achieve its green goals.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1640368073680076800
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This map shows the evolution from 2010 to 2020 of the relative share of each mode of transport for inland freight (excluding air & maritime freight).
◽️In 2010, rail & inland waterways represented ≈25 % of the total.
◽️By 2020, their share had further decreased to below 23 %.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1640369982088388609
👉Currently, the transport sector accounts for almost a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe.
Nearly three quarters of this amount is due to road transport.
🚚Trucks and lorries carrying freight on roads are responsible for around a quarter of road transport emissions
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUauditors/status/1640370398205206528