The European Commission published the second edition of the “EU Transport Scoreboard”, a benchmark which compares how member states perform in 29 categories covering all aspects of transport. The objective of the Scoreboard is to help member states to identify areas requiring priority investments and actions, in order to create a Single European Transport Area with high standards, notably in terms of sustainability.
EU Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc said: “The 2015 scoreboard shows how dynamic the European transport sector is. I am pleased to see that good progress has been made compared to last year, for example for infrastructure quality and the opening of rail freight markets. The Scoreboard also shows what still needs to be done, in order to create jobs in the transport sector or to improve its sustainability.”
The Scoreboard brings together data from a variety of public sources (such as Eurostat, the European Environment Agency and the World Economic Forum).
The Netherlands top this year’s edition with high scores in 16 categories, followed by Sweden, Finland, the United Kingdom and Denmark.
According to the Scoreboard, Bulgaria has a high share of electrified railways. The Czech Republic’s competition both in the freight and passengers’ rail market has grown considerably in recent years. Finland’s quality of rail, port and air infrastructure is rated second best in the entire EU. France is rated highly for its road and railroad infrastructure. Germany gets high ratings for its transport infrastructure for all means of transport, although the ratings are slightly less positive than in the previous reporting period. In Greece, consumer satisfaction with rail, urban and air transport is higher than the EU average. Ireland has the lowest share of electrified railway lines in the EU. Luxembourg leads the ranking as regards the electrification of railway lines, with more than 95% of its lines electrified. Poland has a high share of electrified railways (over 62%). Portugal’s competition in both the freight and passengers rail market is lower than in other countries. Romania’s market share of rail freight companies competing with the main operator is the highest in Europe (56.8%). However, in the passenger market, the share is lower. The United Kingdom is far advanced in its completion of the TEN-T core network, with the conventional rail network already fully completed. Its market share of competitors in passenger rail is the highest across the whole EU (89.7%).
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