FREIGHTVISION – Freight Transport FORESIGHT 2050

Sustainable freight transport is one of the core goals of the European transport policy. The European Commission (EC) is faced with different stakeholder groups and a variety of proposals that should be done to achieve sustainable freight transport. The EU project’s (“FREIGHTVISION – Freight transport FORESIGHT 2050”) objective is to develop a long-term vision and robust and adaptive action plan both for transport and technology policy for sustainable long-distance freight transport, which are supported by the relevant stakeholders. This will be achieved by applying a new methodology, a FORESIGHT process. In this process, both experts and decision makers from research, industry, policy making, and society are brought together creating channels for communication and assist in this way in the development of a long-term vision and action plan for freight transport in Europe. This paper describes the overall methodology and first results. Detailed descriptions of the various parts will be given in future papers.