The timely deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure across the EU, and smart taxation and charges, which encourage operators to decarbonise, are paramount for successfully decarbonising road transport. Raluca Marian is the Director EU Advocacy and General Delegate of IRU’s Permanent Delegation to the European Union. Collective passenger transport is a decarbonisation tool in its own right. Yes, it groups people and moves them away from private cars. But it would bring even further benefits if cleaner vehicles and fuels were readily available across the EU. (....)