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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. Germany's automobile industry is one of the key sectors in the country. Approximately one in seven jobs in Germany depends either directly or indirectly on the automotive industry.

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.