Norway and Sweden chose different approaches to development of new renewable energies

Posted on December 7, 2020 by nradmin

Cheap hydropower slowed down the development of renewable energy sources in Norway in the period 1960 to 2015. Sweden, however, was, and still is, significantly more ambitious when it came to renewable energy production from for example wind power and solar energy. A recent TØI study has...

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Speed display signs reduce driving speed at pedestrian crossings on collector streets

Posted on December 7, 2020 by nradmin

A recent study evaluated speed display signs at pedestrian crossings in a low-speed (40 km/h) urban environment. Installing speed displays significantly reduced the mean speed, proportion of speeding vehicles, and approaching speed at pedestrian crossings. The speed ​​displays were installed...

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Future concepts for sustainable urban mobility are demonstrated in new EU project

Posted on December 4, 2020 by nradmin

At the start of 2020, SHOW was launched, an EU project aimed at demonstrating and evaluating advanced concepts for sustainable urban mobility in real environments. The SHOW project has a budget of 36 million euro, almost 30 million euro of which is funding from the EU, and brings together 69...

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Common Nordic initiatives can make aviation significantly more sustainable

Posted on December 3, 2020 by nradmin

The Nordic region can make aviation more sustainable by collaborating on a funding mechanism for renewable fuels financed by common passenger taxes. In January 2019 the Nordic prime ministers signed a declaration on a common Nordic vision for carbon neutrality and particularly committed their...

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Feasibility, costs and benefits of retrofitting ADAS to improve road safety

Posted on December 1, 2020 by nradmin

In order to decrease road fatalities, the European Parliament has made several ADAS mandatory in new models from June 2022 onward. Through retrofitting, the uptake of these ADAS in the vehicle fleet could be improved. VTT and Ecorys have studied the feasibility, costs and benefits of retrofitting...

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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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