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By sectors of the economy, the biggest volume of savings envisaged as a result of applying the measures in the Action Plan is found in the transport industry. Thus, of the savings anticipated over the lifetime of the plan (87.9 million toe), this sector accounts for 38% of the total (33.4 million toe).

The 2008-2012 Action Plan for the 2004-2012 Energy Efficiency and Saving Strategy (E4), implies the continuation and consolidation of the measures carried out in the 2005-2007 Action Plan. The description of the measures is as follows:

1. Urban Mobility Plans. Financial assistance to fund mobility plans, set up public bicycle lending systems, conduct feasibility studies on mobility measures, perform follow-up studies on the results of implementing sustainable urban mobility measures and run pilot trials.
2. Company transport plans. Financial assistance to fund studies of transport plans in companies or centres of activity (industrial estates, health-care and educational establishments, shopping centres, etc.), pilot projects.
3. Increasing the share of collective transport in road transport. Financial assistance for studies and basic intermodal infrastructure design, reserved lanes, design and bringing into operation of online public transport information tools (road and rail).
4. Increasing the share of transport by rail. Financial assistance for studies and basic infrastructure design to increase the uptake of the sector in freight transport. Training courses, communication actions, documentation development.
5. Increasing the share of transport by water. Financial assistance for studies and basic infrastructure design to increase the uptake of the sector in freight transport. Training courses, communication actions, documentation development.
6. Transport infrastructure management. Study into the setting up of a general pay-per-use system for transport infrastructure. Financial assistance for comprehensive studies on networks of transport interchanges, logistics centres, and basic designs of infrastructures that increase intermodality and encourage the use of more efficient means of transport. Funding of pilot projects.
7. Management of Road Transport Fleets. Financial assistance for the conducting of fleet management audits, support for the financing of investments in technology systems and applications oriented towards improving the energy efficiency of road haulage fleets, lines of support to fund pilot projects and courses on efficient fleet management.
8. Management of Aircraft Fleets. Financial assistance to conduct fleet management audits, support lines for the financing of pilot projects and courses on efficient air-transport fleet management. Funding of pilot projects and the replacement of engines with more efficient ones.
9. Efficient Driving of Private Vehicles. Financial assistance for the providing of efficient driving courses for car drivers and driving instructors at driving schools forming part of the teaching system whereby learner drivers obtain their licence to drive a car.
10. Efficient Driving of Lorries and Buses. Financial assistance for the provision of courses on efficient driving aimed at drivers and driving school instructors.
11. Efficient Piloting in the Air Travel Sector. Financial assistance for the provision of training courses for pilots on energy efficiency techniques. Development of documentation and communication workshops. Demonstration pilot projects in the sector.
12. Renewal of Road Transport Fleets. Establishment of minimum quality criteria for fleets for the granting of licences to collective passenger transport companies or road haulage firms. Development of a system of labelling for industrial vehicles. Financial assistance to mitigate the extra cost of alternative vehicles in relation to equivalents with traditional designs and engine types.
13. Renewal of Aircraft Fleets. Financial assistance for studies and demonstration pilot projects including energy efficiency criteria in the selection of aircraft.
14. Renewal of Maritime Fleets. Financial assistance for studies and demonstration pilot projects including energy efficiency criteria in the selection of ships.
15. Renewal of the stock of cars. Financial assistance to mitigate the extra cost of alternative vehicles as compared to equivalents using traditional designs and engine types.

These measures constitute the same conceptual framework as the 2005-2007 Action Plan, concentrating management efforts on reducing the least efficient modes of transport which have the greatest impact on the environment (road transport). The Plan's objectives also include an additional effort to increase the adoption of biofuels and other alternative fuels for transport, with a target of increasing their share to close to 8% by 2012.