However, we need to make things very clear to the companies managing intermodality.

For others, the issue is intermodality of different transport forms.

In this situation, a greater reliance on intermodality is necessary.

Intermodality is the key concept of present and future European transport policy.

We now have a certain degree of intermodality, and we must take it further.

Clearly, a discussion on intermodality requires, at the same time, a sharp cultural change in the culture of enterprise.

Intermodality is absolutely essential if we want to make our transport systems more effective and efficient.

However, the Commission does not agree to the reference to road and waterway intermodality.

In order to achieve intermodality it is necessary to have services and regulations that are common to all modes.

This project must facilitate the development of intermodality within the European Union.

The subject presented here is important as it discusses in depth transport intermodality.

I am thinking of the whole question of intermodality.

Intermodality enables people to design their mobility using all modes of transportation.

We should think globally about the intermodality of transport.

The promotion of intermodality is a tool enabling a system approach to modern transport.

So there is no question of our being able to opt for intermodality. We are being forced into it.

We acknowledge that improving intermodality is an instrument to achieve the same objective.

But intermodality is hampered today by an enormous development of road transport with its economic advantages.

At the same time, uniform rules make things easier for transport operators and thus improve intermodality.

The motorways of the sea initiative, put forward in the 2001 White Paper, has intermodality at its heart.

Safety and intermodality are particularly sensitive issues here.

The same applies for the further transport-related topics of intermodality, research, development and new technologies.

I think that the Commission too should be clear about this and should issue proposals to promote intermodality.

Interoperability is the next item on the agenda, and we are currently setting the points for more intermodality.

Greater use of intermodality is one answer.