Author Archives: nradmin

Operational Measures Against PM10 Pollution in Stockholm

Posted on May 25, 2015 by nradmin
The concentrations of inhalable particulate matter (PM10) in the air in several Swedish cities do not meet the EU air quality directive and the Swedish Environmental Quality Standards. Since 2011, intensifying efforts are made to reduce particle levels in Stockholm, where the problems are...

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Winter Testing in Driving Simulator Being Improved

Posted on May 25, 2015 by nradmin
The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) is constantly researching ways to develop and improve the ability of its driving simulators to simulate reality. One such piece of research is WinterSim, a three-year doctoral project aiming to recreate certain properties specific...

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Countermeasures For Fatigue in Transportation

Posted on May 25, 2015 by nradmin
The overall aim with this study was to gather knowledge about countermeasures for driver fatigue in road, rail, sea and air transportation. The knowledge has been used as an input for evaluating advantages and disadvantages with different countermeasures and to estimate their potential to be used...

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Conference: ERPUG 2015 forum

Posted on April 14, 2015 by nradmin
The latest in road profiling and road surface characteristics. European Road Profile User's Group are proud to invite you to the ERPUG 2015 forum, October 15-16, 2015, in Budapest, Hungary. It will take place in central Budapest at the Technical University. Registration is now open, see...

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Unique Model Calculates Costs of Winter Maintenance

Posted on March 2, 2015 by nradmin
In the late 1990s, VTI and the Swedish Transport Administration (then known as the Swedish Road Administration) began discussing the creation of a model for calculating the socioeconomic costs of various strategies for the winter maintenance of the national road system. VTI has now been working...

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