ITS Applications for Improving Safety and Mobility of Vulnerable Road Users

Posted on June 8, 2016 by nradmin

The VRUITS project (Improving the Safety and Mobility of Vulnerable Road Users through ITS Applications), co-funded by the European Commission, investigated how safety and mobility of Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) can be improved through Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), and provided...

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A CO2-fund for the Norwegian Transport Industry?

Posted on June 8, 2016 by nradmin

Heavy transport makes up a large part of the land-based GHG-emissions from the transport sector in Norway. Every year, 70 000 trucks emit around 2,5 million tons of CO2, and pay in over 1,2 billion NOK in CO2-duties on fuel. A means to accelerate the phasing in of trucks with renewable propulsion...

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Properly Placed Vegetation in Cities Improves Air Quality

Posted on June 8, 2016 by nradmin

A city’s vegetation can affect its air quality both positively and negatively. The positive effect is that the total amount of air pollution decreases because the air is being filtered. On the other hand, vegetation in crowded street canyons can degrade the air locally if deployed in such a way...

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A Future Without Traffic Signals?

Posted on June 8, 2016 by nradmin

Neither traffic signs nor traffic signals may be necessary if all vehicles are self-driving. But many questions remain as to what will be required in the future, which is why the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI), Linköping University (LiU), and the Royal Institute of...

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Ecodriver: a Major EU Fuel-efficient Driving Project Completed

Posted on June 8, 2016 by nradmin

For four years, researchers at the Swedish National Road and Transport Institute (VTI) have been working on Ecodriver, a wide-ranging project under the auspices of the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme involving twelve partners in eight countries who have jointly assessed innovative systems for...

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Palm Distribution of Road Conditions and its Application in Incident Risk Analysis

Posted on March 1, 2016 by nradmin

Traffic accidents can be caused by different factors. By analysing these factors a method for incident risk management can be developed. This method can be used by traffic management centres to proactively reduce traffic incidents. In two previous studies a method to apply the Palm distribution...

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Fatigue a Problem in the Transport Sector

Posted on March 1, 2016 by nradmin

29 per cent of a sample of Norwegian transport operators report at least one episode of sleeping or nodding off while operating in the course of a three-month period. Based on retrospective ratings of the most recent operating period, alertness is found to decrease rapidly towards the final hour of...

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The Need for Environmentally Friendly Freight Transport: with a Focus on Maritime Shipping

Posted on March 1, 2016 by nradmin

It is no exaggeration to say that our life depends on freight transport. It does. But how can we reconcile the need to reduce shipping volumes (in view of climate change) with the need for more shipping (partly because the world population is constantly growing)? These thoughts dominated the...

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Wind in the Sails of Inland Waterway Transport

Posted on March 1, 2016 by nradmin

Many factors favour inland waterway transport in Sweden. It offers relief to the heavily burdened Swedish road system. Its reliability (“just-in-time”) is high. The gains it offers in terms of sustainability and the environment are major. Moreover, several recent projects point to major...

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Money and Shame Lead Drunk Drivers to Refuse Alcohol Interlock System

Posted on March 1, 2016 by nradmin

Losing one’s driving licence is an annoyance, and convicted drunk drivers report that it negatively affects their health, work life, and family life. Even so, two-thirds refuse the option of applying for a licence that is conditional on using an alcohol interlock during the probationary period....

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