Category Archives: Policy and Planning

Sweep-salting in Karlstad: Challenges and opportunities

Posted on December 7, 2015 by nradmin
The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) has analysed the conceivable advantages and disadvantages of sweep-salting bicycle paths in Karlstad, a seaside town in Sweden with an estimated 90,000 inhabitants. The town’s location and climate make sweep-salting a good method...

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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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Norway’s Path to Sustainable Transport

Posted on October 30, 2014 by nradmin
Thanks to the substantial purchase tax levied on new passenger cars, the Norwegian government has a quite powerful climate policy instrument at its hand. Continued application of this instrument may halve the greenhouse gas emissions from Norwegian cars within two or three decades. On account...

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Best Practice Factory for Freight Transport

Posted on October 28, 2014 by nradmin
BESTFACT project collects, develops, evaluates and circulates good ideas for city logistics, green logistics and co-modality as well as e-freight. Best practice descriptions (95 so far) are freely available from the project website. BESTFACT develops, disseminates and enhances the utilisation...

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Reforms in Vehicle Registration Tax Can Reduce CO2-emissions

Posted on April 7, 2014 by nradmin
The Norwegian Parliaments target to reduce new passenger vehicles average CO2-emission to 85 g/km (type-approval value) in 2020, can be achieved by reforms in the vehicle registration tax. In three out of four scenarios, described in this report from Institute of Transport Economics, the target...

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