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This book traces the evolution of European Union transport policy, exploring how member states’ competing interests and internal EU tensions have shaped its development. Offering a comprehensive, mode by mode overview, it charts the historical background to current policies and highlights future challenges and opportunities.
With clear explanations of the origins and drivers of EU policy, it offers students, researchers and policy makers a coherent guide to the political, economic and environmental contexts in which transport policy decisions are made. Covering topical themes—including markets, climate change and Brexit—it offers an essential foundation for the study of European transport policy.
Handley Stevens joined the European Economic Organisations Department of the Foreign Office in 1964. After 30 years in the civil service concluding with three senior posts at the Department for Transport, he was Visiting Research Associate at the European Institute, London School of Economics.
Martin Jones OBE worked for the Department for Transport and at the UK’s Permanent Representation to the EU between 1989 and 2024. He led DfT’s input to Brexit preparations and negotiations.
Together, their engagement with European transport policy development spans 60 years.
Foreword
1. Introduction
2. Mapping the Contours
3. The Quest for a Common Transport Policy
4. Transport and the Environment
5. How European Transport Policy is Made
6. Road Transport
7. Transport by Rail and Inland Waterways
8. Sea Transport
9. Transport by Air
10. Infrastructure and Multi-Modal Programmes
11. Transport and Brexit
12. Drawing the Threads Together
13. Conclusions
List of Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index