Tag Archives: freight transport

Modal shift – a way to achieve the environmental objectives

Posted on March 8, 2019 by nradmin
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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VTI in research programme Triple F (Fossil Free Freight)

Posted on March 4, 2019 by nradmin
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. The...

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Automation is making rail competitive

Posted on March 5, 2018 by nradmin
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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Manual on transport, logistics and multimodality

Posted on March 2, 2018 by nradmin
The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, VTI,  is one of several important partners in a project whose purpose is to create knowledge and insight regarding the transport sector. In an initial subproject, VTI has produced a manual on transport, logistics and...

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Freight transport on road and rail analysed

Posted on February 1, 2018 by nradmin
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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