Transport price signals : monitoring changes in european transport prices and charging policy in the framework of TERM

The European Environment Agency (EEA), jointly with the Commission's Directorate-General for the Environment, Directorate-General for Transport and Energy and the Statistical Office Eurostat, developed the transport and environment reporting mechanism (TERM). TERM aims to monitor progress in integrating environmental concerns into transport policy throughout Europe and comprises 40-odd indicators, which cover all relevant aspects of the transport and environment system (see Annex A for a complete list of TERM indicators and indicator groups). These indicators form the building blocks for regularly published environmental issue reports, such as TERM 2000 (EEA, 2000), TERM 2001 (EEA, 2001a) and TERM 2002 (EEA, 2002), and focus reports such as 'Road freight transport and the environment in mountainous areas' (EEA, 2001b).