Heavy freight. Big challenge. One goal. : environmentally sustainable freight transport: international, national, local
publisher: German Environment Agency ; authors: Martyn Douglas, Juliane Bopst, Wolfram Calvet, Miriam Dross, Katrin Dziekan, Katharina Koppe, Martin Lambrecht, Martin Lange, Juliane Schicketanz, Frank Wetzel and Percy Appel, Anna Chanin, Christian Fabris, Andrea Fechter, Kilian Frey, Detlef Gebauer, Michael Golde, Detlef Grimski, David Hartmann, Olaf Hölzer-Schopohl, Helge Jahn, Andrea Kolodziej, Christine Kornher, Anja Leskovar, Benjamin Lünenbürger, Thomas Myck, Elke Örtl, Maximilian Pagel, Carola Pahl, Ulrike Pirntke, Katja Purr, Inke Schauser, Ulrike von Schlippenbach, Martin Schmied, Dana Shilton, Annett Steindorf, Doris Tharan, Julia Treichel, Christoph Töpfer, René Weinandy, Jan Weiß ; editorial office: Dipl.-Ing. Christa Friedl, Economic Journalist, Krefeld
Freight transport keeps the world running. In Germany freight transport has grown massively these past 30 years, by 75 %. Its climate-harming emissions are nowadays 25 % higher. Continuously high burdens of air pollution, noise and land consumption represent the downside of freight transport. The German Environment Agency (UBA) with this brochure attempts to present a vision for an environmentally sustainable freight transport by the year 2045 and recommends over 70 individual measures. Those measures addressing international, national and local types of transport would initialise necessary changes in order to achieve the above-mentioned vision and carry out important aspects of, fittingly, changing of points. This brochure addresses economics, politics and society.