INTERMODAL TRANSPORT TO REDUCE CO2 EMISSIONS

Abstract

The logistics and transport have played a strategic role in the process of globalization of trade allowing the development of the free market. The new targets for the containment of costs and CO2 emissions are challenges to innovation such as the methods of the technical resources, focusing on new propulsion systems and new fuels, trying to improve infrastructure such as ports, interports, railways and roads to make them more efficient and less intrusive for the area, the nature and ecosystems. The directive about transportation in Europe has been drawn up in Brussels in 2011. This document, the White Paper, showing the analysis of the transport sector, it determined some elements like: the necessity of the international cooperation to make efficient the decisions, the need to diversify energy supplies and the necessity to contain the polluting 
emission and maintain the global warming under 2° Celsius. It is necessary to support new modes of transportation in order to deliver higher volumes of goods and a greater number of passengers using transport or the combinations of transport more efficient. The need to create more favourable conditions for the achievement of the goals set from Europe is urgent and can only be met through intensive work, starting by schools and universities. Also a closer collaboration between 
the public and private sector will be key to a creation of conditions for development intermodal transport, to create a growing demand for sustainable transport.