whatever it takes. policeman follow with w. fire made for mines. lou. hello, 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 of transformative was when mo, the car replaced the whole the to the p, a 3rd runway would effectively generate an additional $3000000.00 tons of c. o. 2 is absolute madness to do that and tons of climb across this mountain. ah, look in a position to come on in is not wish to years from now. 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 criss 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, 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're peons 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 line is very difficult to d. carbonite if look into the airline industry is trying to greenwashing plans to continue to grow company. other was supposed to initially all swear and technological transformations away too. far in the future, but we need a reduction now so and that can only be achieved through a reduction in air traffic lights. mere her cap thing her as co founder of this state 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 plans 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 my is my climate issue has become increasingly serious with arrived in the climate crosses. 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 you have say soon that says we have saved 660 heck days of austria's most valuable agricultural land to keep from being used for climate damaging aerial growth. that is really good. i think we have rained in the air, woods, growth maniac of them, but the button is not one. the company is cannon. it cannot be that an international airline ticket is turned off at a lower rate than food. this has to stop it. 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 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 just 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 enemy 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 bulgaria. it's a short video girl, love bower and all that bullshit. but it's about a little protein, a war in order to started with my grandmother, she go dressed, hustled with 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 our 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 all disgusted like no from then on. i want to be a truck driver to go on and that was my dream. it. so my 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 shuttle just, you know, a little above their own. an eastern european truck drivers in western europe. this is mainly for financial reasons and forums of the wages differ enormously. if you, in $1000.00 euro had you on 2000 euro that you had, although it's already a big difference. it's all due to the money to like that. 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. wow. look, bob law firm in france. they still diesel from me for an answer. while i was sleeping. charlie, i'm over in france in france. that's a real problem. awesome gemalto. i'm going to rosa holland ho holland. yes. bosh, marcia. this part of the load is going to marsey on this part to get belgium consolidated cargo, benchmark or rubashaw robot dash lamp germany, nuremberg done, and then back to iraq, to sal. ammonia crunch. la, la e la has strict rules for laurie driver is they are 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 uncompetitive. ah, the 75 percent of freight transport in europe is handled by trucks. no wonder road transport. it's 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, though is generated by ro transport have actually risen over the same period. ready if europe wants to become climate neutral vehicles of the future will have to be emission free with 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 tracks is the question of how we can implement c o 2 free transport for freight traffic on the road single, the outdoors, these a 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 of fuels law in particular, alternative fuels that could possibly be considered as energy sources for the powering trucks. far common 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 the hot than shown site long am eigen leash uber length last couldn't be we had been thinking for a long time about what we could do about this much way project coming in to valise is gone. and then we discovered that other continents had the same problem, horn and all foyce verizon. thus image male, we saw that more and more traffic was coming to call it more and more projects were coming. and that this was being felt in everyday life. with these trumps driving through the villages and really making life difficult, a ya typically the slave initially and and then we said thus we can do something about it could together mind so much was getting more krista motor was one of the founders of a popular initiative to protect the alpine region from too much traffic wanted any so p for brock eoc cake. and the mirror care in through our initiative was formed to fight heavy goods traffic in transit credit. in other words, against the laurie's that simply cross switzerland on their way from gemini 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 all that somehow doesn't work, 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 it was just also to yield the steel is and what is i going? so the goal is no more than $650000.00 a year. crossing the l some. it wasn't 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 are being belt by switzerland can and should also participate in terminals in northern italy and southern, generally not but kylie could ah, civil or if it was successful it was a huge move. yeah, so it was a great experience to low fargo. 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 whose mountainous terrain doesn't make it an obvious candidate. to be honest, beliefs to give often does fall, cut, emery good and cheap. the real we as 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 gay body. negro is the largest private employer in switzerland to fight. they don't. we employ almost a 100000 people better than we belong to. the people take approximately 2000000 people in switzerland are our owners. i can too much. we are a corporate and shaft whose east is reached 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 ro transferred electronic don sport, the scent of ear free transports are absolutely marginal for a lot of you to the flu. and most one percent of our gasser lies adults involved. if, if, in exceptional cases, we nevertheless have to fly good sign that we charge a fee for these transport ice via we put this money into a fund, which we then use, i get to promote our own because sustainability project we often so it is wides, puny. renoir, him and 3 contented bomb, 14 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 had put in groups in the same ve line. we're working on other projects 30 to start m i. one is called cargo, su tara, hold on to bone. this is about building a free, trilling, halting under the ground east does a 2nd innovative sustainability project. life is the each to mobility project in switzerland, yet which allows us to start transporting goods using fuel, cell technology. lukea to pin meagre also has its goods from abroad delivered almost exclusively by train. transporting goods by rail producers $43.00 times less c o 2 than air transport. and 6 times last been transport by truck. the hooper cargo terminal north of the launch is an indirect consequence of the swiss referendum i did was just guys. can i chuckle froth about that? it? i'm not as okay. mark on the 12345. you can use the central donnell ship law dillard's. i did i select the laws. door's been done law in 3, in or in, but at the, i'm sorry, a memo. i checked the defaulting trail problem. we have various destinations all over your i am my, me, germany, switzerland, northern, your uncle, sweden, to at the moment we have about 25 to 30 pairs of trains, hair 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, you for 6 to 85, a one is arriving or not. 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 are longer than they used to be held that they used to be 550 meters long to die. they are 650, makes as 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 plane. 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 wagons, passed by full of these train, went through the whole of easton macedonia, the 100 freight cars, and all of them here at coach any station 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 truck . it almost will stick with emory and that was done. it's a reporter news, a florida from a buffy. but this feels over it is so the, the passenger train runs in the evening once a day in the morning. it takes people from here to scorpio and back in the evening, american republic loaded last, if both of them knew you not, you knew how important international train would be for these villages and towns for ship. valesh, coach, any ve nature come in, sher del chapo, bearable pitch, travel, the train could reach them all, vanish and i was ab, brutal on to communism. we have laws, we would work with european union as a mafia. unbelievable was europe should learn from us, not the other way around. your digital names you as good as because you are without traffic. there is no life because goods and capital must be constantly on the movement of the exchange of goods means life. took a zillow, though, like the trains have to be used. unfortunately, that's no longer the case. the companies have disappeared and probably won't because i mean 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. williams, those who have a co go to scorpion, the rest of the stay here and co trinity. it sat is all a catastrophe. it could be different, but that's the way it is. i need a mother what then? let's get to work. i have you been to that a with by them? it's not only in europe, south and east that regions are underserved 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, we'll go finish doing this house now. his 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. we take care of all kinds of documents, ecology and honesty, id, drivers, license, vehicle registration, et cetera. only while we're here because the next because city is quite far away, but you have to drive 45 kilometers for every official visit yet. but and there are no bosses will train c ha, a book with beth. many people don't have a driver's license at all. oh, so we've noticed that there is an urgent need, especially in rural areas like this one in the, in department in 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 up for you here about the pension application. i laugh exactly. she already filled it out, but they sent back more paperwork again with well, let's say robert, your own shoulder 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 and only come in my colleague is waiting for you at that yes. of yahoo! and then on looks at me. 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 someone to support them. kitchen. i think the human aspect is the most important thing about our services 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 live there? certainly a well functioning local transport system could change a lot, but in fact, the opposite is the case. in the 1920s, 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, our 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, 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, dr. looked immobile vaughnam 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, chemical. it takes 10 years on a lot of money to develop an internal combustion is all in good health. but with the advent of electric cars is barrier. david is ali said by a little to push him do now you can offer customers attractive products without having to resort to the internal combustion engine. i 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 got here. you can see an interesting comparison about between an internal combustion engine, probably from a random began, are scenic that november and the electric motor of the new megan. think that is the of the fire to compress it. say that at 1st glance, you can already see that they differ in terms of size compactness. i materials on closer inspection you all soon with this 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 gala dahl 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 thought so these jobs will more or less disappear over time. if it is not like you won't be the one that boss dead on the new jobs will be created to build these electric motors as well as well as all the other components of electric car and exit mercy. phone is also an organ. i went, you anything according to the study, 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 in 14 giga factories for batteries are currently operating in europe. 7, our european for our asian and 3 american. this number is expected to at least triple in the next 10 years with european projects waiting the rate on the switch to electric cars could and are dependence on oil. but do electric car thief, the climate and the environment. the production of these vehicles consumes an enormous amount of energy. the rare earth are needed for the battery. only after 80000 kilometers doesn't 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 aliasing fall to asia and also stated is jaqueline completely. cities and streets were concentrated, but that's changing more and more cities and moving towards considering cars, i have the gas safety and bike that the main mode of transport i said to support release really, talent has worked as a traffic engineer for 35 years. she has helped many dutch cities become more bank friendly and overheard from about switching from car to bike is good for your health. good for the environmentally are good for the climate and good for you work . 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 to day, you can travel much further distances. the bikes can compete with cars from medium distances. we the learner awesome. but you can see, you can see the old, well, the little and anston you. there lack, there is the motorway and main connection between the 2 biggest city seen and him and named nathan ward. brooke, it is very busy at rush hour. it gets very crowded and there is congestion. the light markers will make the politicians in this region have decided not to build another mote away, but incent to build a cycling expressway. to get people to switch to cycling on. like to fall, it is 15 kilometers from the center of ne, may come to the center of optim actually, 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 off your back to play all this stuff, switch to your one of our unit ability is willing to change the infrastructure, often something good comes out to me. it attracts more people for people feel more comfortable for you to the big cities in the netherlands, especially which iceland amsterdam are ready, we think and 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 hope 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 in thinking these cycle pass 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 or in is this is every bit as transformative as 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 destruction i just profound james r. bear 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 real benefit of electric vehicles and that's a long lifetime. there are 20 moving parts an electric vehicle compared to 2000 in a gasoline vehicle. so it's just less to go wrong. vastly lower maintenance costs, 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 lifetimes 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 cog, can't access jobs that are further away comp, partake in the economy. but once we have an autonomous drive of, it seems inevitable. those barriers were full down and it will be transformative and all kinds of ways. we're going to see a, you know, very, very different world emerge. you know, from the 20 thirty's, as, as, as, as, as we realize, the benefits of this new system will transform, you know, where we live, where we work, the structure of our cities. and it will open all kinds of new possibilities on a personal level, i'm most excited about not having to drive again and i, but that's just because i don't like driving. but i think most excitingly is just the fact that any one, any way will be able to access transfer. i think we know we believe that in cities we're going to have free transportation. i think that transforms all kinds of things that brings everyone who wants to participate in the economy into the economy. no one's excluded from participation because of where they level or lack of transportation or the cost of transport. i think that's profoundly different for us to, to what we see today and we might even in the future have a right, the 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 in the u. s. 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 cars is growing denser. but here too, there is inequality. so far, many parts of europe have been left out. i think we have the potential to solve some of our most complex. hm. pressing problems from inequality to climate change enable by technology across all kinds of sectors does not guarantee that we capture all those benefits. my concern is that we fail to capitalize on the opportunities we take the wrong 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 live, or us a much better world, a much more prosperous, much more resilient, much fairer. well, 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 pens above all unclear decisions. along with our willingness to make changes to our habits. ah ah ah ah ah. is the end of the pandemic in site? we show what it could look like. will return in the normal and we visit those who are finding it difficult with successes or you know, weekly coping 19 special in 30 minutes on d. w 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