Advancing Europe’s sustainable and connected transport system - a territorial perspective
Opinion factsheet
Na tejto stránke
- Transport
- Air transport
- Maritime transport
- Rail transport
- Sustainable mobility
Opinion number:
CDR-4345-2025
Status:
Currently under discussion
Objective
The opinion aims to ensure that the EC Communications on the Sustainable Transport Investment Plan (STIP) and Connecting Europe through High-Speed Rail (HSR) deliver a coherent and territorially balanced pathway towards a more sustainable, resilient and connected European transport system. It seeks to strengthen the role of LRAs in planning, implementation and investment prioritisation, ensuring that EU ambitions translate into effective outcomes on the ground.
The opinion advocates for:
A strong territorial perspective, ensuring that transport investments benefit all territories, including cross-border, peripheral, rural and outermost regions, and strengthen urban–rural connectivity;
Integrated multi-level governance, promoting closer coordination between EU, national and local/regional actors to improve alignment between infrastructure planning, permitting, and implementation;
Efficient and targeted investment priorities, supporting decarbonisation, interoperability and multimodality through well-sequenced and realistic infrastructure development;
Better connectivity and cohesion outcomes, ensuring that high-speed rail and strategic transport corridors contribute to accessibility, economic development and social inclusion, while avoiding territorial divides;
Greater coherence across EU policies and instruments, reinforcing complementarity between EU funding, national investment strategies and long-term transport planning objectives.
The opinion advocates for:
A strong territorial perspective, ensuring that transport investments benefit all territories, including cross-border, peripheral, rural and outermost regions, and strengthen urban–rural connectivity;
Integrated multi-level governance, promoting closer coordination between EU, national and local/regional actors to improve alignment between infrastructure planning, permitting, and implementation;
Efficient and targeted investment priorities, supporting decarbonisation, interoperability and multimodality through well-sequenced and realistic infrastructure development;
Better connectivity and cohesion outcomes, ensuring that high-speed rail and strategic transport corridors contribute to accessibility, economic development and social inclusion, while avoiding territorial divides;
Greater coherence across EU policies and instruments, reinforcing complementarity between EU funding, national investment strategies and long-term transport planning objectives.