European ministers look for answers in London
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EUROPEAN transport ministers meeting in London last week were out to discover the answers to problems of investment choice, the use of the present network of transport and evaluating demand. British Transport Minister William Rodgers said that neither tachographs nor drivers' hours regulations were on the agenda for the Four-day meeting.
France's M. Billet said the difficulties of European transport were not merely passing 3ut were basic structural 3roblerns.
The EEC he said, needed to Jo a lot of thinking on its .nethods of research in order :o solve those problems, but :he meeting had shed more ight on the needs of the )resent and the future.
And there had to be a far !loser look at the use and ?conomics of freight :ransport.
On passenger transport, M. 3illet said it was clear that, in ill developed countries, tran;port had to be supported by noney from public funds. "We lave to adopt a criteria of fficiency measured against he social and economic !onsequences," he said.
Earlier, Mr Rodgers said ■ olicy decisions in transport lad to be based on sound .conotnic advice if we were to ;et value for money.
It was necessary for the !ouncil of transport ministers o have reliable and high ivality advice on all transport natters — and that was what he council had now, he added.
The council was one of a eries of biennial meetings of heads of transport from the One — although not all Iranport Ministers attended — Lnd included delegates from iniversities, research and onsultancy agencies.