The present government has promoted most projects and actions on sustainable mobility issues, Minister of Transport, Communications and Works Yiannis Karousos said on Thursday, speaking at the 7th Conference on Sustainable Mobility and Intelligent Transport Systems held on December 8 and 9 in Nicosia. Karousos said that Cyprus has been added to two corridors of the Trans-European Transport Network, the Western Balkans corridor (Cyprus, Greece, Balkans, Croatia, Italy, Austria) and the Black Sea, Aegean and Baltic Sea corridor, which starts from Cyprus and ends in Helsinki and connects to Mariupol in Ukraine and Moldova, thus sending many geopolitical messages.
Cyprus also achieved the expansion of its internal road network with the inclusion of the Paleochori-Agrou motorway in the Trans-European Transport Network, Karousosos added, while the city of Larnaca was included in the major urban centres along with Nicosia and Limassol due to the semi-occupation of the capital and the existence of the airport outside the capital. "The aim is that telecommunications and energy should also pass smartly through this road network, which must be built in a way that allows the Green Deal objectives to be achieved," he said.
In recent years, various initiatives have been promoted to reduce pollutants and sustainable mobility, the minister continued, citing as examples the completion of the tender process for the transition to the new public passenger transport system and the launch of the evaluation of tenders for new modern and "green" bus stops Focusing on the aviation sector, he said that Cyprus has promoted a tool for EU-level solutions called the "Entitlement Subsidy Mechanism", which provides support to airlines to achieve their targets, while reducing the negative impact of the cost of compliance with new fuel and refuelling standards for air carriers.
Technology and transport systems play a very important role, Karousos continued, with Cyprus having already put in place cameras and sensors in cars He added that from 2014 onwards the majority of biofuels consumed in Cyprus are produced from used frying oils after a cyclical processing process.
The existing energy environmental targets in the transport sector foresee an increase in gross final energy consumption to at least 14% by 2030, she added, adding that hydrogen can also contribute to this effort, for whose use in transport Cyprus is expected to have developed its strategy by 2014.
The existing energy environmental targets in the transport sector foresee an increase in gross final energy consumption to at least 14% by 2030, she added, adding that hydrogen can also contribute to this effort. CNA
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