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The 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 Ministry for Urban Development and Roads is responsible for the following transport related authorities in Malta:- Coordination of Urban Development Projects- Malta Transport Authority (MTA). The MTA was set up in 2001 in order to improve co-ordinat ...
MaltaThe Ministry for Competitiveness and Communications is responsible for the following transport related authorities in Malta:- Civil Aviation- Malta Maritime Authority. The Ministry’s responsibilities were assigned to "Ministry for Infrastructure Tr ...
MaltaSSD 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 ...
BelgiumSHAPES Commuter cycling can enhance the long-term physical health of the general population. But it is not well understood whether cyclists are exposed to higher risks due to air pollution and accidents. A non-marginal shift to cycling helps to realise a ...
BelgiumLIMOBEL LIMOBEL deals with three priority research areas that are interrelated: transport and mobility, energy and environmental issues. It is well known that, while generating many benefits, transport also causes many problems, of which congestion, accid ...
BelgiumMOBLOC The research project aims at analysing retroactions between demographics and evolution of mobilitiy at different time-scales. In particular, location choice for households, daily accessibility and internal migrations appear to have strong interacti ...
BelgiumISEEM The ISEEM project aims at becoming an interdisciplinary network of researchers. It covers subjects such as economic development and endogenous growth, land and resource use, commuting and transportation, location of economic activities and housing m ...
BelgiumPROLIBIC Within the research programme ‘Science for a Sustainable Development’ (SSD) a number of cluster projects were defined. These clusters aimed at gathering knowledge from different individual projects as well as giving support to policy makers. Ener ...
BelgiumMD/DD/17 It is well known that the inland navigation generates less negative impacts in term of congestion, safety and environmental pollution than the road. It is thus important to understand what are the main barriers which hinder a shifting of cargo fr ...
BelgiumDSSITP The objectives of this project were to find ways to enhance the growth of intermodal barge and rail transport. Both combinations have a particular market structure and operations, but it is important to analyse them together in order to take care o ...
BelgiumTheme 1- Mobility and Multi- Modality Management 2001-2005 follows on from Theme 2- Mobility and Multi- Modality Management 2000-2001. The first programme was focused on 3 main themes- the environmental management of airports, the regional express network ...
BelgiumMD/DD/02 This project has taken up the challenge to gain more insight into the complex relation between freight transport and welfare. It has used the knowledge and experience of the three teams involved. The UFSIA team has investigated, on the one hand, ...
BelgiumMD/DD/16 The research aimed at drawing lines of actions for public policies to foster sustainable mobility in and around Brussels. In so doing, it has translated in practical terms the abstract concept of sustainable development in the field of mobility. ...
BelgiumCP/37 Sustainable mobility at the local level, in cities, towns or districts, requires a balance between accessibility, livable conditions and environmental quality. Despite technological progress and strict standards for new vehicles, a balanced local tr ...
BelgiumADICCT In Belgium, as in many other developed countries, car traffic has steadily increased in recent decades. Volumes of traffic have become too high for the road capacity, especially under specific circumstances such as the weekday peak hours. This cong ...
BelgiumBMW Analysing mobility demand leads more and more research to take behaviour patterns in to account. One of the most serious approaches is activity-based models. The main idea in this promising line of thought is to view traffic not as a standalone phenom ...
BelgiumDWTC169 Transport and sustainable development are undoubtedly linked to each other. The fact that the car is the most commonly used transport mode has obvious negative effects on the environment. The predictions for car use do not promise an immediate cha ...
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