ABSTRACT
The early years in the evolution of the Common Transport Policy (CTP) were operator-oriented with a clear bias towards facilitating competition by action on tariffs, banning discrimination, and improving frontier crossings. In the late 1960s and early 1970s a shift of emphasis began to emerge and infrastructure appears more frequently as an item of CTP concern. The selection of modes and of projects for investment will involve a restructuring of spatial relationships in Europe. Certain corridors of movement can be identified as particularly important for Community freight and people movement, and the selection and investment will itself focus more actively on that route. Disbenefits can arise from the re-allocation of economic activities which result from changed accessibility surfaces and locational adjustments among large manufacturing and distribution firms. The CTP’s involvement with infrastructure has followed very closely its well-established philosophy of facilitating economic development and the quick and easy movement of freight.
