What are the latest trends defining EU road freight operations? Who is travelling what and how far? This Intelligence Briefing breaks down the latest EU road freight data and developments.

IRU welcomes the joint committee vote in the European Parliament on the CountEmissions EU proposal. The committees’ report allows sub-contractors, which are mainly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to use secondary data. It also rightly puts an immediate focus on reporting based on the ISO standard, as it is too soon for a switch to a life-cycle approach.

The IRU Brussels team recently visited one of Amazon’s largest fulfillment centres in Europe to better understand the company’s community-based decarbonisation and driver shortage strategies.

Europe’s road freight transport industry, cities and regions all agree on the need to become carbon neutral by 2050. Given the diversity of actors and challenges, which include the frictionless transport of goods, access to consumers, and the reduction of air and noise pollution, how to reach this goal is a more complex question.