Now live: Discussion between EU Commissioner @AdinaValean & UN Special Envoy @JeanTodt on #RoadSafety challenges in the Global South 🗣️
🔴 Tune in to the concluding session👉 http://europa.eu/!J3qDHX
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600869946736906241
#StandWithUkraine: Commissioner @AdinaValean at today’s high-level meeting on financing of transport infrastructure along the #SolidarityLanes 👇
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600865544273825792
🚛Shortage of lorry drivers has also become a #RoadSafety issue. During traffic controls, we often hear “I pay fines because it’s cheaper than hiring extra drivers” – Marijke Eskes, @Roadpol_eu at 🇪🇺 Road Safety Conference
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600834094077825025
Travel & tourism enjoy strong demand, therefore it is important to avoid disruption, congestion or closed borders. We need open markets, affordable & more #sustainable connectivity. Our 🇪🇺 aviation agreements also boost this! – DG Hololei w/ @WTTC President & CEO Julia Simpson
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600809762249396225
❓ How can companies ensure the safety of their drivers? How can we allocate enough space for vulnerable road users?
❓ How can young people be involved in road safety? How can data help improve #RoadSafety?
💡Join our thematic sessions - live now: http://europa.eu/!J3qDHX
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600803668638449664
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. Strong support for using key performance indicators to steer road safety strategies. We also need to bring the human element into road safety data.
– Conclusions of panel 1 at today's #RoadSafety Conference
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600800404518105088
🇪🇺 #RoadSafety Results Conference – opening session: decisive factors in achieving #VisionZero, according to our panelists: better infrastructure, reduced speed, education, political will & funding!
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600790467746353152
Neither COVID-19, Russia’s war of aggression nor the current energy crisis have reduced the importance of achieving our road safety targets: Our aim is to halve road deaths & serious injuries by 2030, & #VisionZero by 2050.
– DG Hololei @ #RoadSafety Results Conference
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600788329712087041
📢The 2022 EU #RoadSafety Conference is about to kick off, with opening words from DG Hololei, MEP @ElenaKountoura, 🇨🇿 Minister @makupka & @EU_CoR
@Emil_Boc
Followed by a panel debate on KPIs, targets & strategies with @EUAmbSchmidt!
🔴Live here at 9.30 http://europa.eu/!J3qDHX
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600762105245728769
A modern #TEN_T across 🇪🇺 & beyond will offer efficient & sustainable transport:
- connecting 430 cities w/ ports, airports & rail
- passenger🚆travelling 160km/h
- shorter waiting times at🚆border crossings
- improved links with 🇺🇦🇲🇩 #SolidarityLanes
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600488226543861760
✈️It's International Civil Aviation Day!
On this #FlyDay, we thank all aviation workers for their dedication to keeping the🌍connected while ensuring highest level of safety.
Our work w/ all partners towards more safe, secure & sustainable future aviation continues. –DG Hololei
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600466530587668480
🗓️ The EU #RoadSafety Results Conference is tomorrow!
❓Where do we stand in 2022 & are we on track for #VisionZero?
🔎In focus: professional drivers, vulnerable road users, young drivers & automated vehicles
Looking forward to seeing you there! 👉http://europa.eu/!J3qDHX
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600429919816732672
🚀 @HorizonEU Work Programme 2023-2024 has been launched
➡️ EUR 650m funding for research & innovation actions in transport & mobility
🗓️ 13 December - Calls open
📌 15/16 December - Cluster 5 Info Days
RT @HorizonEU: The 🆕 #HorizonEU work programme for 2023-24 will invest €13.5 billion to help researchers & innovators find solutions for environmental, energy, digital and geopolitical challenges.
Find out how exactly #EUfunding on R&I will tackle these challe…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600412836705861632
With today’s agrement on new stability requirements, we are making ferries sailing in Europe safer for the benefit of our citizens and transport workers. @EU2022_CZ @europarl_en
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/AdinaValean/status/1600067895039381504
And thank you @MI_GOV_PL, @MF_GOV_PL, @MFIPR_GOV_PL & @KAS_Lublin for your hard work! 👏 🇵🇱
#SolidarityLanes #StandWithUkraine
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600159245579603968
Across 🇪🇺, #SolidarityLanes take different forms:
In Dorohusk🇵🇱, border authorities created a separate 🚛lane for 🇺🇦 exports & imports, to help them cross the border faster.
👏 Thank you 🇵🇱 for your solidarity!
#StandWithUkraine
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600152869130604544
#SolidarityLanes are also key to ensuring #FoodSecurity, bringing 🇺🇦 grain to world markets via road, rail & inland waterways.
📽️Grain train in Dorohusk🇵🇱 after crossing the 🇺🇦🇵🇱 border #StandWithUkraine 👇
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600151624508637184
At the #SolidarityLanes border crossing in Dorohusk, 🇺🇦&🇵🇱 are working together to identify investment needs to increase capacity & reduce waiting times.
To finance such investments, EU, @EIB, @EBRD & @worldbank have mobilised €1bn: https://europa.eu/!96vPCT #StandWithUkraine 👇
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600150279009148928
#SolidarityLanes: Since Russia’s unjustified invasion, 🇺🇦exports & imports are transported via new routes across EU – a huge logistics task for authorities in 🇺🇦🇲🇩&🇪🇺.
In Dorohusk🇵🇱, officers are now dealing with volumes 16x higher than last year – and rising. #StandWithUkraine
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600149226456961024
Important discussions with #RoadSafety experts from #WesternBalkans & @EUWB6_TCT in Brussels today.
📋On the agenda: state of play of implementing the Western Balkans road safety action plan
🎯Our common goal: #VisionZero
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1600130387665072128
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Working for efficient, safe & clean transport in Europe. Updates from the Directorate-General for Mobility & #Transport of @EU_Commission.