European Commission, 2009.

The Green Paper summarises the Commission's assessment of the TEN-T policy implementation so far and sets out options for its future development in the light of the new challenges. It brings infrastructural needs of the common transport policy more into focus, e.g: How to better interconnect and integrate all transport modes in order to enable efficient, safe, secure and sustainable co-modal transport services for passengers and goods? How to reflect measures towards an optimised infrastructure use (e.g. deployment of intelligent transport systems, pricing and taxation) in TEN-T planning? How to apply a truly European planning approach that concentrates on key Community objectives while taking due account of national rules and procedures as well as of the need for commercial freedom in responding to market needs. How to reflect, in the TEN-T, future needs of new technologies in the transport and energy sectors? How to reinforce Europe's infrastructure connections to the world and to Europe's neighbours? How to enhance the effectiveness of the instruments for policy implementation – both financial and non-financial?