Strategies for European innovation policy in the transport field

Abstract Technology offers opportunities to realise policy goals. The FANTASIE project, executed for the European Commission, has done a search for promising technological innovations in transport and has assessed their possible impacts on the goals of the Common Transport Policy. Individual policy measures that could foster these promising technological innovations have been identified. Beyond individual measures, robust and adaptive strategies need to be developed that can be adjusted to changing circumstances in order to cope with the complexity and high level of uncertainty involved. In addition, the balance between national and European policy measures deserves particular attention. This leads us to suggest a number of policy packages that reflect the aforementioned principles of transport innovation policy design, as well as the specific constraints of the European policy context.