The main objective of the Transport Protocol of the Alpine Convention is to pursue a sustainable transport policy which will reduce the negative effects of and risks posed by intra-Alpine and transalpine transport to a level which is not harmful to people, flora and fauna and their environments and habitats; inter alia, by transferring an increasing amount of transport, especially freight transport, to the railways, in particular by creating appropriate infrastructures and incentives in line with market principle.
This objective and the implementation of the Transport Protocol are supported by the activities of the Working Group Transport.
1. What is the Working Group Transport ?
The Transport Protocol was adopted by the ministers at the VIth Alpine Conference in Lucerne, 2000. The tasks of the Working Group Transport of the Alpine Convention were redefined in 2000 to support the exchange of information and experience among the Parties of the Alpine Convention related to chapter IV of the transport protocol (“control and assessment”). Before the Transport Protocol was adopted a working group was mandated to elaborate and negotiate this protocol.
The contracting parties to the Alpine Convention delegated experts of the relevant transport ministries to be members of the Working Group. Observers to the Convention may put forward representatives selected by the observers themselves.
Since 2000 the Working Group Transport has operated on two-year mandate on specific issues. At the moment it is concentrating on sustainable mobility of people in the Alps, especially with regards to urban areas and their surroundings, the development of coordinated information in the transport and tourism sectors, environmental quality of passenger and goods transport in the Alps, cooperation with the “Alpine Space” Programme and finally on costs and pricing of transport in the Alps. With regard to the Climate Action plan, the group also has the task of exchanging information with the Zurich Group in order to synchronise these partly parallel processes. The Working Group was due to get its 6th mandate at the XIth Alpine Conference in Brdo, March 2011 for the years 2011 to 2013.
List of Members
2. Objectives
The main objectives are:
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to develop coordinated information in the spheres of transport and tourism;
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to implement the Alpine Convention and mainly the transport protocol to identify a common method for the elaboration of the reference document concerning art. 15 of the protocol;
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to work on reducing the negative impact of transport on health and environment;
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to analyse, inform and develop good practices especially for sustainable mobility in urban areas and their surrounding.
3. Activities, documents, results of the transport working group
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Download the decision of the last Alpine Conference held in Brdo (8th March 2011) regarding the Transport Working Group (
Find in DE, FR, IT, SL)
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Reports of the Working Group Transport
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The real costs of transport in transalpine corridors (
Find in DE, FR, IT, SL)
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Tourist Sustainable Mobility in the Alps (
Find in DE, FR, IT, SL)
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Public transport accessibility of Alpine tourist resorts from major European origin regions and cities.
Synthesis Report -
Sustainable Mobility in the Alps. Examples of Good Practices and Analysis of the Mobility System. (
Find in DE, FR, IT, SL) (
Annex EN)
Collection of good practices on transport
4. Links and Additional Information
Austria
France
Germany
Italy
Liechtenstein
Monaco
Slovenia
Switzerland
European Union
http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/health-topics/environmental-health/Transport-and-health
http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/health-topics/environmental-health/noise
- Transport and Environment
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/air/transport/index.htm
http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/health-topics/environmental-health
http://www.transportenvironment.org/
http://www.alpnap.org/ and http://www.alpnap.org/links.html
http://www.imonitraf.org/