Because less oil and coal will be driven through Germany in the future, fewer heavy freight trains will be on the road, the Ministry of Transport expects.
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Berlin Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) says goodbye to the long-held view of German transport ministers: shifting traffic from road to rail serves climate protection. This emerges from a report by the Federal Ministry of Transport, which it submitted to the Bundestag’s Transport Committee in the last week before Easter. It states unequivocally: “Climate and modal shift goals must be separated.” The report is available to the Handelsblatt.
The ministry is also distancing itself from the goals that the SPD, Greens and FDP have set themselves. According to the coalition agreement, the railways should transport twice as many people by 2030 and significantly increase their share of total freight traffic to 25 percent.
“The defined goals are based on the earlier understanding that progress in terms of the climate impact of transport can primarily be achieved by shifting from road to rail and inland waterway transport,” says the ministry report. That is no longer the case.
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