Legal and lnstitutional lmprovements

To facilitate transport transition, a wide variety of stakeholders for all modes of transport must work together in a coordinated manner. Legal certainty also plays an important role in this process.

This chapter provides an overview of important topics related to the transport transition, its legal framework, and relevant institutions; it also identifies important challenges related to these issues. First, it discusses the influence of international, European, and national climate legislation on Germany’s transportation sector. Subsequently, the topics of electric mobility in motorized private transport, legal innovations concerning autonomous and connected driving, smart mobility and mobility data, and the concept of mobility laws are examined.