ABSTRACT
An effective policy rooted in liberalization and ‘freeing the market’ may well produce adverse effects as critics of the Common Agricultural Policy would claim. The Common Transport Policy (CTP) has no clear vision of transport as a process and an important determinant of economic and social justice, environmental quality and the quality of life in its widest sense. The CTP views transport as a crude product, the consumption of which can be increased with little thought for the consequences. Liberalization is primarily about the goals of efficiency, cost minimization and eliminating bureaucratic controls as at frontiers. Benefits will be created and destroyed, dis-benefits will be generated and redistributed. A large institution does have the option of moving the transport debate along different lines and indeed subscribing to a fundamental analysis of objectives and the means of attaining objectives.
