Throughout the decade, other policy documents – including the 2006 Mid-Term Review of the 2001 White Paperon Transport (European Commission, 2006), the 2007 EU’s Freight Transport Agenda (European Commission, 2007) or the 2009
EC’s Communication on the Future of Transport (European Commission, 2009) – advocated intermodal transport as a means of curbing the unsustainable growth of the transport sector, largely driven by road transport, without jeopardising the economic, social and sustainable development of the EU. Recently, the 2011 White Paper on Transport (European Commission, 2011) underpinned the relevance of intermodal transport for achieving the long-term sustainability of the EU’s transport system.