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The increase in passenger and freight traffic represents a great challenge for transport infrastructures, logistics and technology. With its High-Tech Strategy, the Federal Government is focusing on innovative concepts and technologies to carefully develop growing passenger and freight traffic. The new technologies are necessary to meet increased transport demands in future and satisfy the need for the safer, faster and more sustainable mobility of persons and goods.
Environmentally Sustainable Mobility
A rise in the volume of traffic means an increase in environmental and climate policy challenges: Today, transport is responsible for about 20 percent of all CO2 emissions and about 70 percent of mineral oil consumption. It also causes noise which is harmful to health. The Federal Government's climate protection objectives therefore begin with transport: lower emissions of greenhouse gases, greater energy efficiency and a higher percentage of renewable energies. A modern
Vehicles and transport - a very important market with a future
Logistics, the automotive industry and trade are the three industries with the biggest turnover in Germany:
Approximately one in seven jobs in Germany depends either directly or indirectly on the automotive industry.

• The industry had a turnover of 330 billion euros in 2008 and employed about 750,000 people.
• Approximately 2.6 million people are employed in logistics (across all industries).
• The railway industry earns 60 percent of its turnover of 10 billion euros in the field of exports.
• The German shipbuilding and offshore supplier industry had a turnover of 13 billion euros in 2008.