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Summary - This article traces the genesis and development of the Common Transport Policy (CTP) of the European Union, whose birth is concurrent with the 1957 Treaty of Rome. An analysis is performed over the decades, and particularly thanks to the introduction of the Structural Funds, of how the CTP has gone from breaking down borders between Member States as a tool for achieving the single market, to bringing individual city districts closer together to increase their spatial and social cohesion. The urban dimension, as well as the environmental one, is gradually gaining greater importance in the context of the CTP and the major trans-European transport network (TEN-T) design. Today, almost seventy years after the birth of the Union, the Common Transport Policy is in every respect a fundamental policy tool for the promotion of collective mobility and to pursue the decarbonisation objectives identified by the Green Deal of the European Commission.

https://www.medra.org/servlet/view?lang=it&doi=10.57597/IF.12.2022.ART.2.