Roads matter to everyone

Roads carry by far the greatest share of all traffic. They link important political and economic centres to peripheral areas and holiday regions. Roads make it possible for us to get to almost anywhere where people live.

Marked changes can be expected in pan-European and international regional planning. Austria will find herself shifting more and more towards the centre of Europe and will need to handle high volumes of traffic. We must meet this challenge without making the adverse effects of transport on people and the environment any worse.

At a time of increasing mobility, great demands will be made of transport infrastructure and transport users. We shall need new standards for vehicles and new road traffic laws, to ensure that the enormous volume of traffic is managed as efficiently as possible. Transport and those who use it must all live and move together as a harmonious whole.

Roads will be playing their part.