Author Archives: nradmin

EU project to reduce emissions

Posted on November 29, 2020 by nradmin
Road transport is a major source of air pollution that harms human health and the environment. A three-year EU project, in which VTI is participating, aims to achieve a wider societal impact by providing citizens with the knowledge and tools to understand, assess and control their pollutant...

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A flexible and sustainable port network by adaptive port planning

Posted on November 25, 2020 by nradmin
Ports are complex systems that have always been evolving to satisfy new demands for their different layers of physical infrastructure, operation and management, and products and services. Under a volatile and rapidly changing environment, addressing uncertainties in the planning process increases...

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Collaboration with China underway and planned for India

Posted on November 18, 2020 by nradmin
VTI has a well-developed collaboration with other research environments in the EU and also a long tradition of spreading knowledge about traffic safety internationally, especially in countries where traffic safety is low. The Institute is now working in various ways to broaden its global...

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Innovative solutions to improve level crossing safety

Posted on September 18, 2020 by nradmin
The European project SAFER-LC identified innovative level crossing safety measures and piloted some of the most potential ones at eight pilot sites. The measures which were estimated to have the highest safety potential were ‘Additional lights on locomotive’ and ‘In-vehicle train and LC...

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Evolution Road – new electric road tested both inside and out

Posted on September 17, 2020 by nradmin
In the beginning of May, the next-generation electric road was inaugurated in the city of Lund in southern Sweden. Ground based conductive charging technology will be tested on a kilometre long stretch of electric road in the bus lane in Getingevägen. This means that the power comes from rails in...

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