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The last decades have witnessed a global trend toward airline deregulation, with significant impacts on national provisions for air service to smaller communities. One of the consequences of liberalization is that the carriers are no longer constrained to ...
PortugaliTEAM This research project aims at developing an integrated model of land-use, transport and energy for the evaluation of a range of "green policies" aiming at enhancing sustainability and well-being. The model includes both individual/househol ...
PortugalSAVED Over the past 5 to 8 years, the number of accidents and fatalities has become constant, or even slightly increasing, following a 10 to 15 year period of a steady decrease of those indicators in countries with long road safety tradition. This suggest ...
PortugalEMSURE The challenge of the project consists of developing models, methods and technologies to assist decision makers and companies in making the Portuguese Centro Region truly sustainable as far as energy and mobility are concerned. The project addresses ...
PortugalAIRDEV Air transport sector has been undergoing profound changes over the recent decades. Globalisation, political instability, terrorism and economic turmoil have driven the sector towards a turmoil. On the other hand, the sector continues to show a robu ...
PortugalAROUND During the last three decades, roundabouts have gained increased popular and political acceptance and are now used worldwide. Roundabouts are known by their high performance levels in safety, traffic capacity and in atmospheric emissions, especiall ...
PortugalMISC The goal of the MISC project is to devise efficient, secure and dependable system architectures for a massively distributed urban scanner composed of private cars, taxis, city buses and trucks, which, while pursuing their usual routes at various spee ...
PortugalThere are a number of issues related to the management and security of passenger and baggage transport. In order to improve baggage security one must be able to reliably identify and track each item. The latter two are the most critical aspects which can ...
PortugalIAAPE Every trip begins and ends with a walking trip, and everyone is a pedestrian at least for a part of its journey. Walking is often the only way that many people can access everyday activities, yet, the streets and public spaces, once meant for pedest ...
PortugalSoMoMUT Pedestrians have an important role in urban accessibility, representing, in the case of Lisbon city, ca. 20% of daily urban trips. The choice for soft modes (pedestrians and cyclists, in this case) instead of using motorized modes has benefits con ...
PortugalMOPUS The escalating use of the private car for the satisfaction of ever-growing travel needs had, among other factors, contributed to undermine the quality of life, as well as the economic competitiveness and the overall sustainability of metropolitan ar ...
PortugalSOTUR The Strategic Options for Integrating Transportation Innovations and Urban Revitalization (SOTUR) project seeks to leverage transportation innovations (including those identified in the SCUSSE and CityMotion research projects) to promote desirable u ...
PortugalSCUSSE The project aimed to conceive, organize and simulate the implementation of new smart transport modes and services to optimize integration with lifestyles, and also with already existing individual and collective transport. To do so, three levels of ...
PortugalCityMotion This project focused on the development of a knowledge infrastructure, computational models, and user applications that allowed access to real-time information about the state of transportation-related resources as well as predictions regarding ...
PortugalLCC The implementation of High Speed Railway (HSR) networks involves a large amount of financial support imposing, at the conception and design stage, a complete and rigorous estimation of the total costs involved in the lifecycle of the system. Using app ...
PortugalRISK High-Speed Rail (HSR) system’s construction and operation is a complicated management subject involving environmental issues, train schedules, safety, rolling stock and infrastructure reliability (transport infrastructures are critical and vulnerable ...
PortugalMICROFCELLS Fuel cells have unique technological attributes: efficiency, absence of moving parts and low emissions. The Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC) has attracted much attention due to its potential applications as a power source for transportation an ...
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