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Tag Archives: freight transport
Modal shift – a way to achieve the environmental objectives
Shifting freight transports from road to rail and water can contribute to achieving the Swedish environmental and climate objectives by 2030. How this could be done is something that researchers from VTI and Gothenburg University are investigating within the three-year project Mosel, which stands...
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Posted in Environment and Climate, Freight Transport, Policy and Planning
Tagged environment, freight transport, modal shift, Mosel, rail transportation, waterborne transport
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VTI in research programme Triple F (Fossil Free Freight)
VTI is part of the consortium that has been commissioned by the Swedish Transport Administration to conduct a research programme with focus on fossil free freight transports. The programme, called Triple F, will run for 12 years. Part of the programme is targeted at policy instruments.
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Posted in Energy and Fuel, Freight Transport, Policy and Planning
Tagged carbon dioxide, emissions, fossil free, freight transport, Triple F
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Automation is making rail competitive
Road transport is developing rapidly and its productivity has increased sharply. Rail transport, however, has not developed at the same rate. Automation and digitalisation are essential if rail freight in Europe is to survive.
When a freight train is put together, the coupling of the wagons is...
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Tagged automation, digitalisation, freight transport, railway
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Manual on transport, logistics and multimodality
Posted in Freight Transport
Tagged freight transport, goods transport
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Freight transport on road and rail analysed
Freight transport accounts for a large proportion of the emissions, noise and congestion produced by road traffic. Transporting freight in larger but fewer lorries could reduce the problem. At the same time it might entail freight being diverted from more environmentally beneficial modes of...
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