Foresight for Transport: Future of transport and sectoral policy integration in Europe

The FORESIGHT for TRANSPORT project used the foresight method to analyse and assess how mobility and transport is influenced by developments or policies that are non-transport specific and will help prepare the Common Transport Policy for the future. The following five areas were under investigation: decision-making in the context of multi-level governance; energy and environment; enlargement; the information society and advanced communication technologies; and time politics.

FORESIGHT for TRANSPORT has five major goals: (1) Set up and run expert panels for each of the non-transport policy areas; (2) Prepare consultation documents to outline the key factors that affect transport and plausible developments or scenarios in these thematic areas for the year 2020; (3) Submission of the main findings of the expert panel consultations to the public via a Delphi survey; (4) Development of measurable indicators that will help assess the impact of non-transport policies and related societal trends on transport policies and mobility and (5) Development of a monitoring procedure to monitor developments in non-transport fields.

The project represented the first attempt to establish a foresight exercise tailored to the needs of the European Common Transport Policy (CTP) and establish a procedure that assists in the cross-sectoral policy co-ordination and, more specifically, in the integration of non-transport concerns in transport policies and vice-versa. adelphi managed the environment and energy themes and the preparation of and analysis of the Delphi survey and expert consultations.