Currently, such transport services are organized in only a few European countries, even though the social costs of this form of cargo transport are much lower than those of traditional road transport.Co-modality is a term introduced into EU transport policy in 2006 to describe a system of actions aimed at the coexistence and cooperation of various modes of transport, in order to achieve optimal use of existing infrastructure resources and all other resources of the entire transport system of a globalizing Europe. This also means abandoning, in the European Union’s previous transport policy, the pursuit of sustainable transport development outlined in the 2001 White Paper through the promotion of the so-called modal shift policy, which in reality meant pitting all other modes of transport against road transport. Today, the primary goal is to seek an optimum in the entire sphere of functioning of all transport modes, including multi-modal transport.
However, the goal of the co-modality policy is not to discard all ideas related to intermodal transport. Perhaps it is only today, when co-modality has become a current issue, that Ro-La type connections combined with road transport are taking on a new meaning – not on the basis of competition and the elimination of one of the forms of transport, but of complementarity and cooperation. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine