9 Amendments of Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA related to 2012/2298(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas there will need to be a real change in users’ attitudes and in the standards which they demand if businesses and service providers are to be persuaded in large numbers to shift their paradigms and exploit the innovation opportunities offered by the creative convergence and out-of-the-box thinking described in point 5.3 of the Commission communication (COM(2012)0501);
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that a European transport- technology strategy for Europe’s future sustainable mobility should be based on the Union’s targets and legislation regarding the reduction of energy consumption, traffic noise, air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions up to 2020, 2030 and 2050, as well as improving health and quality of life, increasing the quality of services, providing increasingly customised solutions geared ever more closely to users’ needs, and enhancing safety and security;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points to the usefulness of the Commission’s proposed Transport Research and Innovation Monitoring and Information System (TRIMIS) and maintains that it should be incorporated into the user perspective, given that it will be an ideal way to detect the barriers to innovation created by force of habit, identify opportunities, and encourage the spread of new service possibilities to spur and promote changes in social attitudes to sustainable transport;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Considers it essential for local and regional authorities to be involved in European innovation policy governance as applied to transport and mobility; points out that that these public authorities can bring their experience and expertise to bear both in integrating technologies, infrastructure, vehicles, and passengers and in fostering new social habits where mobility is concerned; notes that local and regional authorities can identify, and have to manage, the most acute mobility problems, that they are constantly testing and inaugurating good practices and innovative ideas, and that, given the variety of situations with which they have to deal, they are especially familiar with innovation;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines the need for research on fair competition in the transport sector, including and on the barriers created by vested interests linked to current business models; calls for attention to focus also on the technological tools fornecessary to improvinge the enforcement of, and controls on, social conditions and minimum working conditions and wages for persons employed in the sector;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Strongly supports R&I in the area of individual mobility, for example walking, cycling and other mobility tools whose average weight and volume is significantly less than that of the transported body/object; considers that approval authorities will need to be particularly alert to, and deal promptly with, such technical or administrative problems as might arise, the object being to open up the market to new transport options matching the above characteristics;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Underlines the need for the EU institutions to set examples of good practice within their own mobility management services, such as the further development of Parliament’s mobility point for its Members, staff and visitors, and to manage the necessary effort and its fruits in a transparent way, making this their hallmark;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls for research likewise to extend to the tax and administrative sphere in order to pave the way for creative incentives in terms of taxes, fees, and public tariffs aimed both at private individuals and at manufacturers or providers of products, services, and/or content with a view to encouraging cycling and walking, whether as such or combined with public transport and other forms of sustainable mobility;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Reminds the Commission of the urgent need to improve safety for all road users, in particular the most vulnerable ones, such as children, elderly people, pedestrians and cyclists, cyclists, and people with disabilities or reduced mobility; endorses R&I projects that combine technological solutions with behavioural approaches;