the EU commission has proposed new norms for the construction of the Tir



Yesterday the EU commission has proposed new norms for the realization of the Tir, which update of directive 53 of 1996, with the objective to induce the constructors of heavy motor vehicles to produce more aerodynamic means that - second the esteem of Brussels - will afford to reduce the consumption of the 7-10%, to cut to the gas emissions to greenhouse effect and to increase safety of the roads.

The proposal previews the authorization to construct cabins with a rounded off form and to equip means of aerodynamic ailerons on the posterior part of the towing. "These measures - it has explained the EU commission - will remarkablly improve the aerodynamics of the vehicle, with a saving of about 5.000 euros the year in fuel expenses for a typical motor vehicle that work on long distances and with a distance of 100.000 kilometers. Such saving will be translate in a reduction of 7-10% of the emissions of gas to greenhouse effect (or 7,8 tons of co2 for the same motor vehicle that work on long distances and with a 100.000 distance of km). At the same time it will improve the range of visibility of leading, contributing every year to save between 300 and 500 lives of vulnerable street users, which pedestrians and cyclists".

"A brick - it has found the vice president of the EU commission and commissioner for transport, Siim Kallas - is the less aerodynamic form can be imagined, for this is necessary to improve the form of the heavy motor vehicles on the roads. These changes will return cleaner and sure street the transport, will reduce the costs of the fuel for the haulers and will give to the European constructors an advantage in the planning of the motor vehicle of the future, a more ecological motor vehicle for the world-wide market".

The Commission has evidenced moreover as the proposal represents "an industrial opportunity for the constructors of motor vehicles: the European constructors of heavy vehicles - Brussels has remembered - are market leader and the field constitutes one of the greater industrial investor in research & development. The planning of the new aerodynamic cabins and the posterior ailerons will supply an occasion to the constructors for the development of new models, and will favor the creation of places of work and the economic increase in Europe".

According to the EU commission, the new norms will allow also to promote the intermodal transport: "the reduction of practical the administrative ones - Brussels has explained - will allow a easier transfer of the container of 45 feet between ships, roads and railroads".

In occasion of the presentation of the proposed new, the EU commission has remembered that last june the Kallas vice president has supplied of the lines guides on the conditions to which longer the heavy motor vehicles can cross the frontiers and that the main aspect of such lines guide consists in emphasizing that the use of longer vehicles is than competence of the single Member States, online with the sussidiarietà principle, according to the various local conditions. "No Member States - the Commission has restated - is held to authorize the use of longer vehicles if it does not consider it opportune. However, the lines guide specify that the use of longer vehicles can be authorized from adjacent Member States until remains limited to the transport between those two Member States that already allowed it, and does not only affect considerably the international competition. The aforesaid lines guide - it has specified the Commission - are time incorporated in the review of the directive".

This precisazione evidently does not convince the British association of railway operators Freight on Rail, second which the proposal introduced yesterday from the Commission will allow with the EcoCombi trucks of greater length to cross the international borders at last reaching in the United Kingdom and causing to billionaire costs at the expense of the contributors for the adaptation and the maintenance of street infrastructures. "Although this - she has accused Freight on Rail - the European bureaucrats have not estimated the impacts and the costs for the society of this politics, in contrast with the European norms". "If currently the British government says that he will not afford to mega the trucks of circular in the United Kingdom - he has explained the association - under the enormous pressure from the field of the road haulage will succeed in itself for competition reasons to allow the employment of these trucks, once that mega the trucks come authorized to travel to international level, although all the negative consequences for safety, the congestion of the roads and the atmosphere. Therefore, the government of the United Kingdom would have to continue to resist in the firmer way to the pressure for their introduction".

"He is irresponsible by Europe, above all in a period of austerity - it has concluded the representative of Freight on Rail, Philippa Edmunds - to introduce politics without to analyze the total impacts that will involve enormous costs for the contributors. The British contributor has as soon as ended to pay for the strengthening of the bridges to the 40-44 tons and newly will be forced to pay the cost of billions of pounds in order to adapt infrastructures and for the greater wear and deterioration of our roads because of mega the trucks. In single Austria, the adaptation of the track freeway and net double would cost 5,3 billion euros. Europe would have instead to promote the transport goods on track, in agreement with its same politics".