ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a brief overview of some basic concepts of transport policy. It also presents the development of the Common Transport Policy (CTP) to find out how the development of the European transport policy created pressure to adapt at the national level. The series of decisions regarding road haulage which have been adopted since the inception of the European transport policy in the mid-1980s shares the bias of Single Market policies. The core goal of the European Common Railway Policy (CRP) is to reverse the decline of the European railways by introducing competition among different railway companies. Intermodal competition, especially with road transport, is to be supplemented by intramodal competition on a European scale. The CRP also aims to create a common market for railway transport services. The liberalisation of market access in the road and the rail sectors have generated adaptation pressure for rules which are beyond the formal reach of the CTP.
