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CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF TRANSPORT
VOLUME I
TRANSPORT AND THE
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EUROPEAN
CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF TRANSPORT
VOLUME
26th Annual Report- 1979
TRANSPORT AND THE
ACTIVITY OF THE CONFERENCE
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The European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) was instU tuted by a Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th October 1953. It comprises the Ministers of Transport of the following 19 countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark,
Finland,
France,
Germany,
Greece,
Ireland,
Italy,
Luxemburg,
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United
Kingdom
and
Yugoslavia
(associated countries : A ustralia,
Canada, Japan,
United States).
The purposes of the ECMT are : to take whatever measures may be necessary to achieve, at general or
regional level, the maximum use and most rational development of European inland transport of international importance ;
to co-ordinate and promote the activities of International Organisations
concerned with European inland transport (rail, road, navigable ways), taking into account the work of supranational authorities in this field
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LES TRANSPORTS
ET L'ACTIVITE DE LA CONFERENCE
© ECMT, 1981
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16, France.
CONTENTS
Parti
GENERAL ACTIVITY
Page Chapter I.
STRUCTURE AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE
Chapter II.
ECMT ACTIVITIES
Chapter III.
EXTERNAL RELATIONS
7
9 14
Part II
ECMT ACTIVITIES IN PARTICULAR FIELDS
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
ORGANISATION OF TRANSPORT
Transit problems
19
B
Combined transport
20
C
Investments
21
D
Energy and Transport
24
SPECIFIC PROBLEMS
26
A
Urban and Regional Transport
26
B
Road Traffic Signs and Signals
28
C - Road Safety
D Chapter HI.
19
A
30
Activities of the Eurofima Company
ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION
32 35
Part III
TRAFFIC AND INVESTMENT TRENDS
Chapter I.
GENERAL
47
Chapter II.
RAILWAYS
53
Chapter III.
ROADS
55
Chapter IV.
INLAND WATERWAYS
63
Annex:
Intra-European Civil Transport - Traffic statistics
*
117
ANNEXES
Annex I.
Resolution n° 704 of the Council of Europe
1 23
Annex II.
1.
List of Officers of the ECMT
125
2.
List of Delegates at the Belgrade and Paris sessions
1 26
Parti
GENERAL ACTIVITY
TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPOR T OF THE ECMT
[CM(80)4]
Chapter I
STRUCTURES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE
The year 1979 saw the Conference in process of giving practical effect to the Resolution adopted at the 47th Session of the Council of Ministers on 31st May and 1st June, 1978 in Brussels, calling for the reorgan¬ isation of the ECMT's activities and working structures. As pointed out in the previous annual report, this reform has changed the ways in which problems are
tackled and, as the Ministers wished, has also meant that major po