EU ROAD PASSENGER TRANSPORT SET FOR CONSTANT EXPANSION TO 2030 SAYS NEW REPORT
April 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) passenger road transport sector is set for constant expansion until 2030, according to a new detailed report written for the European Commission. It predicts that 2005's EU passenger numbers by private (and fleet) cars and motorcycles of 4,714 gpkm (one billion passengers carried over one kilometre) will rise to 5,115 by 2010; 5,498 in 2015; 5,849 in 2020; 6,171 in 2025; and 6,441 by 2030. Partly as a result of this, the analysis - carried out by the National Technical University of Athens, Greece - predicts energy ...
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