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2. Transport and political environment
Despite the trend towards deregulation, transport remains a particularly public sector activity. All European governments have a Minister of Transport.
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Ancient roots
The reasons for this intervention are diverse, profound and long-standing. Some existed long before the advent of capitalism, when they affected the exercise of political power, whether civil or military. Covering the territory with sufficient infrastructure is a constant preoccupation of those in power.
Even today, the density of the basic road network is highly uniform across Europe, even in areas where its economic role, and therefore its direct social profitability, is very low. In the event of war, means of transport are immediately mobilized, placed under the management of the State and placed at its service. In peacetime,...
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Bibliography
Digital media
Service de l'observation et des statistiques (SOeS), Chiffres clés du transport, Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing, 2012.
Service de l'observation et des statistiques (SOeS), Memento de statistiques des transports, downloadable :
Regulations
• Directive 1991/440/EEC of July 29, 1991 on the development of the Community's railroads.
• Directive 1996/71/EC of December 16, 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services.
• Directive 2002/15/EC of March 11, 2002 on the organization of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport activities.
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