SVI 2001/533 - Cleaner Drive
Overview
Background & policy context:
Cleaner Drive is a project initiated by the European Union with the lead of the Energy Saving Trust (UK). For Switzerland the project was financed by the Swiss Federal Office for Roads (FEDRO - ASTRA), the Federal Office for Energy (FOE - BFE) and the Federal Office for Education and Science (OES - BBW).
Objectives:
CLEANER-DRIVE is a 3-year collaborative research project supported by the European Commission DG Transport and Energy. It aims at exploiting the experiences, stakeholder contacts and market influence of national programmes for overcoming barriers to the introduction of cleaner vehicles in Europe.
One of the key objectives of CLEANER-DRIVE is to develop a robust European methodology for vehicle environmental rating which draws attention to cleaner vehicles and technologies, and to pilot its use in a web-based tool. Switzerland first develops VEL2, a program for efficient vehicles in the canton Tessin and second transfer this information to the other parts of the country.
Methodology:
The decision support tool will make the rating methodology visible to the user and is the core of the seven national websites on clean vehicles. The decision support tool has been developed after intensive stakeholder consultations amongst users on the requirements for a rating methodology and a web-based information tool. Thereafter a period of one year of stakeholder feedback was held. Based on the feedback important changes were made.
Share this page