weekdays on d, w. ah, a lot of them. good afternoon, or is there a train to school here from here? yes, 5, 26 am only in the morning. yes. we're on the cusp of that. the fastest, deepest, most consequential transformation of transport. this is every bit as transformative was when mo, the car replace the whole the to the piece 3rd runway would effectively generate an additional $3000000.00 tons of c. o. 2, it is absolute madness to do that and tons of climb across his mountain. ah, look in a position to come on in is not pushed 2 years from now is the self driving trucks will be the norm. gosh, but i won't be around to sit down with us on sunday. ah, ah, railways and roads, chris crossed the european landscape like arteries. we used them to commute to travel into transport goods. nearly every aspect of our lives depends on them. a gigantic mobility infrastructure has been created in europe. but as a result were now faced with serious problems. fuel prices are exploding. cities are clogged with traffic while in the countryside. hol, regions are cut off traffic and transport cars, the highest c o 2 emissions in europe. while other sectors are slowly reducing emissions. the ecological footprint of the transport sector is growing. ah. at the beginning of the corona virus, panda mac, we had a brief glimpse of what it looks like when the world standstill. traffic came to a halt and we got a brief respite from pressing questions. like, how can we make transport cleaner? can this clean transport be accessible to all? because today we all depend on transportation. we europeans love to travel nowhere. our suitcases packed more often than they are in europe. above all, we love to fly low cost airlines are particularly popular. they dominate the market and make flying cheaper and more flexible. ah, these are all flights in europe on july 16th, 2017. twice as many as in 1996 after a short depth due to the pandemic, the curve is now rising again. in 2033, it's estimated. the number of passengers will have doubled once more. i air transport is responsible for 14 percent of all transport emissions. but the true cost of flying to the beach is much higher than the price of the plane ticket. more and more young people want to see this change like here in vienna lying, it's very difficult to d carbonite if looking. so the airline industry is trying to greenwashing plans to continue to grow company. other was supposed to initially elsewhere and technological transformations. way too far in the future, but we need a reduction now so, and that can only be achieved through a reduction in air traffic. mir her cap thing her as co founder of this stage, grounded network. she has been fighting the expansion of vienna's airport for years the africa from been had ac. vanna airport currently has to run ways like that. and it is wanted to expand for a very long time on expansion plants are announced to 1998. i'm typing and there has been resistance from the region ever since, and that's and of course, and recent miasma. climate issue has become increasingly serious with arrived in the climate crisis. and the airport still wants to take over an additional $660.00 heck tis for this 3rd runway, a climate damaging wants to project and they put the 3rd runway would effectively generate an additional $3000000.00 tons of c. o. 2. it is absolute madness to do that in times of climate crossen. when they have say soon that says we have saved 660 hectares of austria's most valuable agricultural land to keep from being used for climate damaging aerial growth. that is really good theology. we have rained in the air, woods, growth maniac with them, but the button is not one that comes on. it is common, it cannot be that an international airline ticket is turned off at a lower rate than food. this has to stop me. transport is a complex issue, one that affects us all. decades ago, we here in europe decided to outsource the production of many consumer goods and basic necessities rather than produce them are, tell me what this meant for transport was clear. we would be more and more of it take a high quality german e bike, for example. it's made of over a 1000 individual parts that are produced in all different regions of the world. me, the raw materials for the batteries come from south america or australia. the batteries are manufactured in china, some of the electronic parts in germany. the engine is assembled and hungry and then shipped back to germany. the german tires are made in indonesia, the japanese brake disks are made in malaysia. the rim tape is made in vietnam, and the brake components are assembled in malaysia or china and then installed in germany. the chain is made in japan. the fork in taiwan. the through axle is also produced there, but then assembled into the wheel in portugal, along with the rims and spokes before being delivered to germany. only if all these parts are delivered on time can the bike be completed. almost all of these goods are shipped from asia to europe by ship. first they pass through the suez canal, then they cross the mediterranean. the destination is usually in northern european port rotterdam onto her or homburg. for example. in shipping is responsible for at least 3 percent of global c o 2 emissions and is coming under increasing scrutiny. while the harm it causes the climate is clear, shipping is subject to exceptions. this is true for air transport as well. neither is covered by either the paris climate agreement or the emissions trading scheme. most goods are delivered according to the just in time system. in other words, they are produced only when needed in order to avoid storage time. only when transport runs absolutely smoothly can the european on a me function. the pandemic and the war in ukraine have shown us how interwoven and fragile p supply and production processes are. and how helpless we are when they are interrupted. shipping is followed by the next important link in the transportation chain trucks. even coal, if is a truck driver, he loves his job. his home is in bulgarian. it's a short video girl. love bower and all that bullshit. but it's about a little protein a will in order to started with my grandmother, go dressed, hustled her brother, god rest, his soul was also a truck driver 25 or 30 years ago. when he gets lost, you must, you are. when he came home, he always brought us children, something like the dishes, we will 246 i grandkids. he always had a whole bag of candy for us. walk one time and he put me in the truck, sat me on his lap and that was it. would it cost him like no, from then on. i wanted to be a truck driver too. i forgot. that was my dream. its own. i know how to do that. i'm still driving his whole. i know. got some 6 point. 2000000 trucks drive europe's roads. huge number and like even call if most of the driver is come from eastern europe or rural dish inevitable, there are many eastern european truck drivers in western europe. this is mainly for financial reasons and forums of the wages differ enormous me. if you in 1000 euro had you on 2000 euro that you had a look that's already a big difference. it's all due to the money to like her. where are you going? iraq, iraq, yes. great. is a quiet the i don't understand. i'm a much mean even a little neighbor, neighbor romanian, no. bulgaria, nevada. sophia close to love div. yes. mother love law firm in france, they still diesel from me. but also while i was sleeping, told me i'm over in france in france as a real problem. awesome gemalto. i'm going to rosa holland ho holland. yes. on. bosh, marcia. this part of the load is going to marsey on this part to get belgium consolidated cargo, benchmark or rubashaw robot. torch lamp germany. nuremberg done. and then back to iraq. to seal ammonia, conchella. e law has strict rules for laurie driver is that they're supposed to return to their home country every 4 weeks for example. but although the laws are supposed to help, the driver is work healthier and have more free time. there is a resistance, eastern european drivers fear these rules will restrict their ability to work, rendering them on competitive ah 75 percent of freight transport in europe is handled by trucks. no wonder road transport is so damaging to the climate. in 2019 and accounted for 26 percent of all c o 2 emissions in the u. while total c o 2 emissions have fallen. those generated by ro transport have actually present over the same period. if europe wants to become climate neutral vehicles of the future will have to be emission free truck manufacturers are working hard on alternatives to the diesel engine with one another gorse hours for the warning. for the one of the major technical challenges the truck sees the question of how we can implement c o 2 free transport for freight traffic on the road single. the outdoors. these are powerful vehicles. their engines have a lot of power and they need it voluntary. they drive many kilometers a year last month, they need high payloads and a lot of flexibility. and we sure that these features will remain very important for future vehicles as well. once my team and i are interested in development in the arena refusal in particular, alternative fuels that could possibly be considered as energy sources for the powering trucks. farrakhan at the moment we're looking at hydrogen falls, but there is definitely other candidates that interest us to see them there are definitely environmentally friendly or alternative to the truck. nevertheless, only one european country has consistently chosen alternatives. switzerland. in 1994, the swiss population decided to introduce a higher tax on petrol and to use the revenue to finance rail transport. 7 7 via hutton shown site long island leash, uber length last couldn't be. we had been thinking for a long time about what we could do about this merch way project coming in to valise is gone. and then we discovered that other continents had the same problem, horn and off ice verizon. thus image male, we saw that more and more traffic was coming to call it more and more projects were coming home. and that this was being felt in everyday life. with these trumps driving through the villages and really making life difficult a yard, typically the slave initially and and then we said thus we can do something about it could together reminds home it was good mom, krista mutter was one of the founders of a popular initiative to protect the alpine region from too much traffic wanted any so p for which brought jak gig in the mirror care in our initiative was formed to fight heavy goods traffic in transit credit. in other words, or against the laurie's that simply crossed switzerland on their way from germany to italy. i mean, we understood very quickly that simply launching an initiative against the mote away would not work. so you have to convince people to vote for the initiative. and if you say it's against the motorway, the elk, that somehow doesn't work, also you have to formulate it positively. and that's when we had the idea of an alternate address in it. what do we do with a traffic? what we shifted to the railway is for law, couldn't off debug. with wellsystems a to you, the steel is and what is our goal? the goal is no more than $650000.00 calories a year, crossing the elm stomach. and in order to achieve based on good one of the things that is being subsidized, who is the switch to rail traffic her? so terminals being belt by switzerland can and should also participate in terminals in northern italy and southern generally. no, but kylie could ah, civil or if it was successful it was a huge move. yes, so it was a great experience to lovato. switzerland is the only country in europe where the train is the most important means of transport for both people and goods. that in a country who is mountainous terrain doesn't make it an obvious candidate. the ponies believed to give or to the full cut embroidery thread and cheat. the real we is popular and the people have repeatedly decided to spend billions on further expansion. these people and all real transport is fully integrated into the economy for both passenger and freight transport in the, in piccadilly. the large swiss retail chain, negro, is working to reduce its carbon footprint to an absolute minimum. that's my almost all deliveries are made by train. me it always the curious, they pretty fault they all by the cabling, negro is the largest private employer in switzerland. the by the you know, we employ almost a 100000 people bit earlier than we belong to. the people take approximately 2000000 people in switzerland are our owners, i contribute. we are a cooperative which oft truancies is reached, teach for us. it is important to make logistics all fissions and sustainable. that's all. that's why we worked according to the principal sheet real transport before road transferred. below frost on sport, the scent of ear free transports are absolutely marginal for a lot of u. k flow and most one percent of our gas or light. it's also involved if, if in exceptional cases we nevertheless have to fly good sign that up, we charge a fee for these transport ice viola. we put this money into a fund which we then use. i get to promote our own because sustainability project for often so it is wides, puny renoir, him and t content, a bond for tea. it is switzerland was a pioneer in the development of rail transport. saw our byte booth on the passenger side is and on the freight site or meet development to salmon on to i didn't grow it in the same ve line we're working on. other projects target is thorough. i one is called cargo su tara, hold on to bone. this is about building a free trail. we halted under the ground east. there was a 2nd innovative sustainability project. why is the each to mobility project in switzerland yet, which allows us to start transporting goods using fuel, cell technology, lukea, to begin and meagre also has its goods from abroad delivered almost exclusively by train, transporting goods by rail producers 43 times less c o 2 than air transport and 6 times last been transport by truck. the hooper cargo terminal north of milan is an indirect consequence of the swiss referendum. i don't see a bust guys. can i chuckle froth about that? i'm not as okay. mark on the 12345. you can use the cell. don't ship law dillard's. i did. i select that. yours doors, boom. done law in 3 in or in. but at the, i'm sorry, a memo. i checked the departing train. we have various destinations all over year. i am my, me, germany, switzerland, northern, your uncle, sweden, to at the moment we have about 25 to 30 pairs of trains here, departures and arrivals per die. we're working a full capacity and he says are ala b. o regina? can i by any chance? tell me if the a g b. u for 6 to 85. a one is arriving. marinelli, i don't see it anywhere in the departures. yes, it's arriving. ok. thanks to christie, that any gave all these trains that we brings northern europe, travel through switzerland as be through a goto tunnel. today, the trains along with them i used to be held that they used to be 550 meters long to die. they are 650 meters long, so you can say there is more work, and that is a good thing for so many. nowhere is the railway network as dense as in europe. railways have shaped our lives on the continent for the last 2 centuries, connecting cultures and boosting the economy. to day 226000 kilometers of track, criss cross europe. if you lead them end to end, you could go around the world 5 and a half times. but there's a catch. the ease rail network is a system of 26 separate rail networks that are not fully compatible with one another. to connect to europe, the you spent 27000000000 euros from 2014 to 2022 thirds of that went into expanding the motor ways. while only one 3rd was invested in rail networks. today we can easily reach major cities by high speed train. often more quickly than by plate but there are enormous gaps when it comes to local transportation. in some regions of europe, the railway network is decaying. the economic boom no longer reaches these areas. traffic arteries that once brought vibrancy or decaying, cutting off small towns and villages. a tragic example at the decline of the railway is coach any in north, in macedonia. the whole platform was full of people. you can't imagine her crowded it was. it took a thick with noodle. either she did it, it was clear enough to triple once a day, a freight train with over $100.00 wagons passed mindfulness. these train went through the whole of east in macedonia, 100 freight cars, and all of them here at coach any station a momento, lot in blue today. the industry is getting worse and worse with us, not like before during communist times. now come on now. no freight train has arrived for over half a year, but it would be possible at any time the station is open for freight. transferable, missouri was sick literally and that was done. it's old warren is affordable. what about the but the school so it is so the, the passenger train runs in the evening once a day the in the morning it takes people from here to scorpio and back in the evening where i didn't. oh, good. glad it wasn't them me. you not, you knew how important international train would be for these villages and towns for ship. valesh, coach any ve nature come and cha, don't travel, berrago, pitch of all the train could reach them all vanish and i was ab, brutal on to communism. we have laws even when you were the european union as a mafia. unbelievable was europe should learn from us, not the other way around. your digital names. you as good as you are without traffic. there is no life because goods and capital must be constantly on the move of men. the exchange of goods means life to his heels, the only the trains have to be used. unfortunately, that's no longer the case. the companies of disappeared and have a blessed the walk with them. if we had express trains, would i stay here and work for 200 euros? no, i would go to school p a t earn more money there with a book that's what trains are for. oh, gotcha. brownwood which means they have no way to drive anywhere up with those who have a car go to scorpion watching the rest of the stay here and courtney. it sat as all the catastrophe. it could be different, but that's the way it is. i need him a that or what then let's get to work. i didn't i buy one. mm. it's not only in europe, south and east that regions are under served by public transport. the situation is similar here in northern france, where there are no buses or trains. people move away, the more people turn their backs on their region. the more public services are cut, a vicious circle, the result deserted, stretches of countryside. ah, oh. so senator, this must have this me, wilson in france, something new is being tested here. the local government comes to the people of it's the only lives on that and we help people with their official paperwork and we take care of all kinds of documents, gal, gene, austere id drivers, license, vehicle registration, et cetera. only in a while. we're here because the next biggest city is quite far away, but you have to drive 45 kilometers for every official visit and yet, but, and there are no bosses or trains. he ha, a book with beth. many people don't have a driver's license at all. well, so we've noticed that there is an urgent need, especially in rural areas like this one in the in department and northern france. it's not easy. mpg. jessica, we have been active here for 4 years and have received more and more requests for rule that rule that up for you here about the pension application i left. exactly. she already filled it out, but they sent back more paperwork again. let's see what you all are gone. shorter law on lukewarm. so the good. no, you can't exactly say there's a lot going on here without a car. it's complicated is there are almost no shops here. if you don't have a car, you have to ask your neighbors for help because otherwise it's difficult. i'm glad they're here. they're a great help to us. even though me come in, my colleague is waiting for you that, that yes. of yahoo handling on look. sorry, i'm sure our service will continue and will become a model throughout france. maybe even in other countries, at least i hope so. you see, because there really is a great, neat i, the internet is all well and good. but even if you have a computer, there's no one to help you. at some point, we usually process lot of pension applications. that's the last application. people have to fill out in their lives. a lot of them are afraid of doing something wrong in the process. a so the need some one to support them. kitchen. i think the human aspect is the most important thing about our service on the terrace. ah, what happens to places that are cut off from the rest of the country? what does it do to the people who lived there? certainly a well functioning local transport system could change a lot. but in fact, the opposite is the case. in the 1920 s, france had attract network of 60000 kilometers. one 3rd was for rural areas alone. today it's down to 18000 kilometers for the whole of france. one reason for this development, the rise of the automobile. the 19 sixties and seventies witnessed the birth of individual transport. having your own car was seen as a sign of prosperity and success. first in western europe than in the east as well . people drove their own cars wherever possible, rather than using public transport. this radically changed our lives and our cities . ah, car brands today or national emblems? these corporations are part of national identity. they have a great deal of influence. as large employers there corded by politicians, car traffic is responsible for more emissions than trucks and airplanes. accounting for some 62 percent. and the amount of pollutants is increasing. how can that be? one reason, s u, v, it's extremely popular. they burn above average amounts of gasoline. any success in reducing passenger car emissions has been wiped out with them. but that will soon come to an end. the industry is facing historic upheaval, not least because of rising fuel prices. ah, welcome to v m w i dr. you with that to experience the next generation of b, m w, i drive not them a bill gone on did is in the near for decades, the car industry was protected by the fact that the technology for internal combustion engines was so extremely complicated. local, it takes 10 years on a lot of money to develop an internal combustion is all it grew up. but with the advent of electric cars is barrier guided is all it said by a little simple shim do. now you can offer customers attractive products without having to resort to the internal combustion engine, said by yale, did my job tell me. engineer felipe shaw is a guru of the european e car seat. he's developed various electric vehicles over the last 25 years. now he works for their core, a french company that is building a geek, a factory for electric car batteries. ask gonzalez in the verizon. i've got here. you can see an interesting comparison about between an internal combustion engine, probably from a random began are scenic november and the electric motor of the new megan think that he's off the side of the complexity of at 1st glance, you can already see that they differ in terms of size compactness, i materials on closer inspection, you also notice differences and complexity, the number of hoses, cables, connections belt, yeah. offer this clearly shoes, probably how much more work and resources it takes to produce an internal combustion engine than an electric motor. if obama gallagher, anything ever yes of that thought to love, this was the jobs will be lost in this part of the manufacturing process. yell if you make a recent study suggests that the 6000000 or so jobs in the european car industry. some of you know, about 10 percent are used to meet internal combustion angels. it's almost like half a thought, so these jobs will more or less disappear over time. if it isn't like even one boss dead on a new jobs will be created to build these electric motors as well as all the other components of electric car and exit mercy. boone is also an organ. i went, you anything, according to the study, got these jobs that had almost balance each other ugly. but will there actually be as many jobs in the future? it's a topic of dispute. there's also disagreement about europe's future as a global car producer the batteries generate the lion's share of the cost of electric vehicles. they are mostly imported from china or other asian countries. europe must be careful not to become even more dependent on 3rd countries. to keep up, the industry has launched a major initiative to produce its own batteries. the european batteries alliance 14 gig factories for batteries are currently operating in europe. 7 are, you are p n. for our asian and 3 american. this number is expected to at least triple in the next 10 years with european projects leading the race ah, the switch to electric cars could and our dependence on oil. but do electric cars help see the climate and the environment. the production of these vehicles consumes an enormous amount of energy. rare earth are needed for the batteries. only after 80000 kilometers does an electric car have a better climate impact than a car with a combustion engine? until then, the auto has to compensate for the energy guzzling production, and the cars are only more climate friendly if they are powered by green electricity. and there's one more problem to tackle traffic jams. the interesting fol theresa and also stated is jablonka play is asked cities and streets were concentra, but that's changing more and more cities and moving towards considering cars as to the gas is safe to withdraw and bikes as the main mode of transport. extra though support we've lease hilly talents has worked as a traffic engineer for 35 years. she has helped many dutch cities become more bike, friendly, and overhung from. i'll talk about switching from car to bike is good for your health. good for the environment. we are good for the climate and good for you. it makes us more satisfied. the physical activity releases endorphins and that makes you happy. so psyching as a kind of happiness, drugs were hooks opium. ah, they're awful, the sheets, she bicycles are a good means of transport for distances up to 7 or even 10 kilometers for experienced cyclists. smart, but with the bikes today, you can travel much further distances. the bikes can compete with cause for medium distances. we the learner awesome, but you can see in here you can see the old, well the adults in anston you there like there is the most away. the main connection between the 2 biggest city said adam and nathan ward. brooke, it is very busy, but rush hour, it gets very crowded and there is congestion belie marcus will make the politicians in this region have decided not to build another mote away, but incent to build a cycling express way to get people to switch to cycling like to fall, it is 15 kilometers from the center of ne, may 1 to the center of atom, basically. but you don't have to cycle the whole distance off of it was more about connecting the surrounding villages to the, to city the filtering. but with the advent of e bikes, it has become clear that you can easily cover the whole distance, and you're there in half an hour from your by effort to plug all the stuff, switch to your one of our units ability is willing to change the infrastructure often something good comes out to me through it attracts more people for people feel more comfortable for he did the big cities in the netherlands, especially which iceland amsterdam already me thing can focusing more on cyclists, on pedestrians. and i think this will also become more and more common in the rest of the netherlands and throughout your vall, booted from roper cycle paths are changing the face of cities. in some regions, a lot of money is being spent on this. the pandemic has encouraged a change and thinking these psychopaths have been added in various european cities over the last 5 years. but to this day, europe is still a continent of the car. so how can we get our act together and develop a climate friendly transport system? it's just possible that electric cars could fundamentally change the way we think about billy. so we're on the cusp of the, the fastest, deepest most consequential transformation of transport in a 100 plus years are in is this is every bit as transformative was when mo, the car replace a horse, it'll transform global geo politics. it will impact climate change. i mean that the consequences of this disruption i just profound james are beer, is the founder of the independent think tank rethinks in london. he looks at how new technologies are changing society. we think by 2030 or so that disrupting played out. we're going to see self driving vehicles come to the market and that changes everything. because self driving vehicles allow us to unlock the wheel benefit of electric vehicles, and that's a long lifetime. ah, there are 20 moving parts an electric vehicle compared to 2000 in a gasoline vehicle. so just less to go wrong. vastly lower maintenance cost but more importantly a much longer vehicle lifetime. so an electric vehicle can last about a 1000000 miles. but that's irrelevant in the private ownership model we have today where we will own our own cause because we do 10000 miles a year. but when you go to a fleet ownership model, we don't own our vehicles. we just take robo taxis. each of those calls will be 100000 plus miles a year. and so you get the benefit of the long vehicle lifetime. and so you can spread the upfront cost of the vehicle over the vehicle lifetime. so each mile you travel costs, just a millionth of the cost of the vehicle and that has huge benefits the society as a whole. people are excluded from transportation. now who can afford a caulk, kong access jobs sort of further away comp, partake in the economy. but once we have an autonomous driver, it seems inevitable. those barriers will fall down and it will be transformative in all kinds of ways. we're going to see a, you know, very, very different world emerged from the 20 thirty's as, as, as, as, as we realize the benefits of this new system it will transform, you know, where we live, where we work, that you structure of us cities. it will open all kinds of new possibilities on a personal level, i'm most excited about not having to drive again, i think. but as just because i don't like driving. but i think most excitingly is just the fact that anyone anywhere will be able to access transfer. i think we know we believe that in cities, we're gonna have free transportation. i think that transforms all kinds of things that brings everyone who wants to participate in the calling me into the coming no ones excluded from participation because of where they level or lack of transportation or the cost of transport. and i think that's profoundly different for us to, to what we see today. and we might even in the future have a right to transportation, you know, as part of a universal basic income all or some other form of social social contract that we develop. driverless taxi's are already being tested in several cities. me, us the weather and when this technology will become more widespread remains to be seen. it also remains to be seen whether more than just metropolitan areas will benefit from the development. the network of charging stations for e car is, is growing denser. but here to there is inequality. so far, many parts of europe have been left out. i think we have the potential to solve some of almost complex, some pressing problems from inequality to climate change enabled by technology across all kinds of sectors. that guarantee that we capture all those benefits. my concern is that we fail to capitalize on the opportunities we take their own decisions. we try to prop up and protect uncompetitive, dying industries that comes out the leadership. ultimately, our ability to take the right decisions to live. liver us a much better world, much more prosperous, much more resilient, much fairwell we have plenty of opportunities to make mobility in europe more sustainable and fairer starting now, many technologies are already available. how consistently we approach the changes to pence above all on political decisions. along with our willingness to make changes to our habits, ah ah ah ah. well, i said we, we say it loud when nancy was diagnosed with h i v. she refused to be held back in her vote, cause she tackles issues that letter to young african j. yeah, we don't shy away from asking difficult question or controversial topic. a 30 minute goes on d. w, with 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