14-15 October 2008 the European Commission organize the TEN-T Days 2008 in Brussels in order to analyse the TEN-T policy in the face of the major political challenges of the decades ahead. The conferences will have the participation of Antonio Tajani, Vice-President of the European Commission.

Plenary sessions will be about:

• TEN-T policy is more than the sum of 27 national transport infrastructure programmes: What do Member States expect from it, and what can and should they do to get it ready for the challenges of the next decades?
• Objectives, priorities, instruments and actors of the TEN-T policy: Are they up to the requirements of the future? Is there a need for adjustment, or for a reform?
• A vision for Europe and for the European transport system in the first half of the 21th century: Technological and social innovation – leading the way towards a fundamental reduction of carbon emissions?
• Community action against climate change ahead of the 2009 United Nations Conference in Copenhagen
• Energy for transport: Constraints and opportunities – How can the two sectors align themselves to cope with future requirements?
• The perspective of a TEN-T user: To provide efficient and safe services in high quality across Europe and beyond: how does a major infrastructure manager and operator expect the TEN-T of the future to look like?

Semminar will have 12 Specific workshops:

• W1: Transport and Environment: Potential fields of TEN-T policy action towards the achievement of environmental targets    
• W2: Freight logistics and Green Transport Corridors: Transport infrastructure without bottlenecks and missing links to enable efficient services across the modes    
• W3: Air transport: Development perspectives and future infrastructural challenges
• W4: The "added value" of TEN-T policy: Have 15 years of Community action proven its worth, and how to further strengthen its effectiveness?    
• W5: Intelligent services and systems for road transport optimisation and co-modality: Development perspectives and future infrastructural challenges    
• W6: Role for private sector in the delivery of TEN-T projects
• W7: TEN-T Outline Plans: Options for their future shape and methodological choices for their establishment    
• W8: Rail freight corridors: Development perspectives and future infrastructural challenges
• W9: New generation technologies: Medium and long –term perspectives for vehicle and energy technologies and their impact on TEN-T
• W10: Instruments to implement TEN-T policy: records and potentialities    
• W11: Waterborne transport: Development perspectives and future infrastructural requirements
• W12: Ensuring an optimal funding of TEN-T infrastructure

More information of the workshop can be found at the official web site of the Brussels TEN-T Days 2008.