Boris ŽIVEC Director of Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Rail Transport Vice-president of the RNE (Railneteurope) Cohesion, sustainability, multimodality and interoperability as main criteria for planning the TEN-T comprehensive and core networks

Modal split in 1000 mio tkm EU energy and transport figures - Eurostat Modal split in freight transport growth during the last 40 years, precisely from1970 to Recently about 98% of the energy used by the transport sector comes from fossil fuels (as being stated by the project Green mobility on the move – intelligent Energy April 2009) Boris ŽIVEC

Europtirails Pathfinder Click&Ride European wide attractive activities of the railway sector

Boris ŽIVEC Overview on the alignment and time horizon for completion of the Priority projects TEN – T EA June 2010

Boris ŽIVEC Alert Europe’s Energy portal 22 October 2047 at 20:58 is an estimated date of exhaustion of today's Oil reserves From 1997 to 2007, EU-27 energy intensity fell by 17 percentage points with decreases in all Member states, with the most significant in new Member States

Boris ŽIVEC Might we foresee the consequences of so rapid GDP growth on transport sector, followed by the impacts on environment and energy consumption

Boris ŽIVEC For the South Eastern Europe we are commonly with the national partners from the complex region through the SEETAC project seeking the possibilities for future sustainable transport system, that would base on multimodality and rational use of energy.

Boris ŽIVEC It is a high time for in depth consideration of the dilemma on Stand and Withstand of the EU as global economic force for us and much more for our successors Thank you for your attention