Michal Grinberg

Non-Budgetary Funding of Transport Infrastructure   Initiating a debate concerning non-budgetary forms of funding transport infrastructure and exchanging experience in the field of investments implemented in the Public-Private Partnership formula are the two objectives of the informal meeting of European Union ministers for transport, to take place on September 5th-6th 2011 in Sopot. The Polish Presidency shall be represented by Cezary Grabarczyk, minister of infrastructure.   The meeting shall be attended by representatives of European Union member states, by a…

Time-limit for receipt of tenders: 19/09/2011 The development of transport policy needs to be supported by robust quantitative analysis, providing a comprehensive and consistent picture of the European transport sector and its evolution. Transport modelling is an important tool for providing such quantitative analyses of transport activity trends as well as the effects of alternative framework conditions (e.g. energy prices, macro-economic developments) or policies (e.g. internalisation of external costs, market stimulation for accelerated uptake of new technologies, deployment of Intelligent…

Consultation period: 11/08/2011 – 6/10/2011 In its Europe 2020 strategy, the European Commission proposes the Flagship Initiative ‘Resource efficient Europe’. This states that the European Commission will work to present proposals to modernise and decarbonise the transport sector. In line with this strategy, the European Commission has recently adopted the White Paper ‘Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area –Towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system’, which announced that the European Commission will develop “a sustainable alternative fuels strategy…