TRIMIS
Transport Research and Innovation Monitoring and Information System
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Transport analysts- economists in particular- have often claimed that price policies should be one of the main pillars of transport policy-making. The idea would be that prices reflecting marginal costs would induce individuals to change their behaviour i ...
NetherlandsTheDirectorate-General for Civil Aviation and Maritime Affairs (DGLM) contributes to keeping the Netherlands connected to the rest of the world and, consequently, to a vital economy by ensuring the sustainable development of mainports, aviation and shippi ...
NetherlandsThe amount of fatal road accidents dropped from 3300 casualties yearly in the early 1970s to less than 800 nowdays. Still, it remains a major object of concern to the Dutch government. SWOV conducts scientific research in order to contribute to road safet ...
NetherlandsTraffic and transport contribute to many environmental problems. The programme of the former RPB (now the PBL- Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) mapped the current and future environmental pressure factors of traffic and transport within the fr ...
NetherlandsRail transport needs to be efficient, effective and functional to enhance the quality of this mode of transport. This quality will lead to a travellers' mode choice that is more and more in favour to trains than to cars. Prorail is a rail infrastruct ...
NetherlandsNLR has been operating as an independent foundation serving both public and private organisations since 1937. Its precursor, the Government Service for Aeronautical Studies, was founded in 1919. In 1940, the then Nationaal Luchtvaart Laboratorium (Nationa ...
NetherlandsEstablished in 1917, the institute mobilises individuals and organisations to raise the quality of spatial plans, urban design and development projects. NIROV works to maintain and improve standards in planning policy and practice in the Netherlands and i ...
NetherlandsTraffic conditions have to be studied on a regional scale, where in most cases inter- and intra-urban networks function as one coherent system. However, traffic analysis as well as control generally only consider parts of these coherent networks, often le ...
NetherlandsThe federal sustainable mobility programme was running for the period 1996-2001, as one of the specific programmes under the Scientific Plan for Sustainable Development Policy. The authorities already had a number of instruments to regulate the transport ...
BelgiumThe Second Scientific Support Plan for a Sustainable Development Policy- SPSD2 is a continuation of SPSD1. SPSD2 retains the objectives of SPSD1, being: to develop and consolidate a Belgian scientific expertise to offer the country's authorities the ...
BelgiumIn 2001, the need for long-term policy-oriented research to support the activities of the Flemish Government became apparent. As a result, 12 Flemish Research Groups consisting of one or more universities or research organisations performing long-term res ...
BelgiumThe existing mobility and transport system is not sustainable in terms of "people, planet and profit" and will not automatically change in the required direction at the pace deemed necessary. There is a need for an improvement in the quality of ...
NetherlandsThe Netherlands Institute for Transport Policy Analysis (Kennisinstituut voor Mobiliteitsbeleid, KiM) is concerned with policy studies and analysis, i.e. knowing more about transport. As an independent institute within the Ministry of Transport, Public Wo ...
NetherlandsSenterNovem is an agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and was established on 1st May 2004 after the fusion between Senter and Novem, two agencies of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. The agency since then joins the knowledge of innovation and susta ...
NetherlandsSSD is the continuation of the first and second Scientific Support Plans for a Sustainable Development Policy (SPSD I [1996-2001] and SPSD II [2000-2005]). SSD was approved by the Council of Ministers in March 2005 and covers a wide range of scientific re ...
BelgiumThe spatial economics domain covers a large number of complicated policy problems that require sound scientific analysis. There are plenty of examples to illustrate the complexity of the problems that the discipline addresses. How can the limited amount o ...
NetherlandsThere is a national and international demand for methods of estimating the effects and costs of road safety measures. In 2002, SWOV developed the Road Safety Explorer for Regions. This instrument has been applied in all regions and is worth further develo ...
NetherlandsThis project deals with the development of a programmatic approach of the accessibility problems in the 'Randstad' (most dense area in the Western part of The Netherlands), in particular from the perspective of logistic nodes like Schiphol Airpo ...
NetherlandsRecognition and predictability are important requirements in a sustainably-safe road infrastructure. What has been done until now is mainly a case of making the traffic solutions for various road types uniform. It is clear that this way of working contrib ...
NetherlandsThe over-representation in serious crashes of young, novice drivers indicates that novices have been insufficiently prepared for traffic participation. This is especially so for learning higher order skills, such as danger recognition. This mainly concern ...
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