By Dr. Per Anders Örtendahl (auth.), Dr. Roland Thord (eds.)

We all recognize that networks are basic must haves for prosperity and creation. Transportation and communique are indispensible to society, they're the weather which bind all financial platforms jointly. with no networks and communica­ tion all social and financial existence may be diminished to remoted phenomena. for that reason, transportation cannot be assessed within the comparable manner as different companies. A easily functioning process of communications is additionally a prerequistite for social and fiscal integration among separate nation-states. The modernization of the infrastructure is hence an pressing activity and a precondition for conducting the full of Europe's bold political, financial and social time table. because the desire for verbal exchange and transportation doesn't comprehend any nationwide borders, the functioning of the networks should be followed to this new monetary and political geography. Congestions of towns, highways, railroads, airlines and tele­ communications needs to be tackled, if invaluable operating, commuting and rest time isn't to be wasted and heavy burdens at the atmosphere refrained from. eu site visitors, is for instance, anticipated to double in the subsequent two decades. In definite delivery modes the expansion is anticipated to be even swifter - air passenger shipping doubled in 10 years and items shipping on roads doubled in 15 years.

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Similarly, the EC in conjunction with other bodies, such as the European Civil Aviation Conference, has brought forward a package of measures to coordinate investment in air traffic control and navigation equipment on a European wide basis and have also attempted, less successfully, to stimulate the creation of a European high-speed rail network (Commission of the European Communities, 1986b). Again the planned time span of implementation extends into the late 1990s and beyond. At the private sector level, significant changes in the way transport is viewed within the overall production process has meant that international freight transport has been going through a considerable period of change.

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