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MERKUR Worldwide Boom of Electrically Driven Bicycles Within one decade, the number of electrically driven bicycles in China increased from around 210,000 units (1999) to about 120 million (2009). Due to the locally lacking emission control, many Chinese ...
AustriaNAHTRANSPORT Due to escalating (sprawling) development of settlements and the concomitant traffic volumes in a globalising economy, distances of transport and therefore energy use and emissions as well have grown tremendously in all parts of the supply ch ...
AustriaZENEM The future electricity grid will be confronted with new challenges. One challenge are additional loads by electrical consumers such as electric vehicles. But on the other side electric vehicles offer higher energy efficiency and have the potential t ...
AustriaNANUPOT Reducing energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions and the diversification of fuel supply are major challenges road transport is facing today. Efficient and alternative propulsion technologies are one approach to face these problems. This Report ...
AustriaPiA The Project PiA (paradigm change in propulsion technology) aimed to explore innovations contributing to the facilitation of the use of light battery, electric vehicles through new approaches. The research resulted in solutions ensuring that:-Narrow, u ...
AustriaBallade 2 The project addressed new topics of infrastructure for electromobility by taking an all-encompassing viewpoint and building upon the precursor project BALLADE – User-friendly Ubiquitous Charging Infrastructure for electromobility Regarding the m ...
AustriaSiLithium In order to reduce CO2 emissions and fossil fuel dependence the development and uptake of electric vehicles play a key role. Achieving performances acceptable for a wide range of users, and not only for the early adapters, requires the developme ...
AustriaHybridlokomotive The aim of the engineering/scientific cooperation is to develop an electric locomotive driven by water-electrolysis/fuel-cell energy-transform and hydrogen-storage-system for shunting with and without overhead wire-use. For the first time ...
AustriaOSCD The emergence of electric driving and sustainable charging is a significant development and challenge for the electricity grid. It is also an essential component in order for Europe to shift to the low-carbon circular economy it strives to be, as the ...
AustriaTrolley 2.0 Trolley bus systems provide modern public transport for small and medium sized cities, and they supplement the public transport networks of big cities. Although extensions of trolley bus lines are more expensive compared to standard diesel bus ...
AustriaLoS VEgAS The problem in logistics planning and deviation management currently is that the used tools were placed on existing historical systems, which are now department-specific isolated solutions which have to be unified for multimodal view. The basic ...
AustriaGreenCityStreets Green City Streets develops public participation tools using information technology. The project develops, tests and evaluates these tools, and publishes the results on its website. The website also serves as a clearing house for informat ...
AustriaJuergen For the collection, handling, dispersion and use of intermodal traffic information by third parties a number of legal issues are involved. A specific “Traffic telematics and traffic information law” does not exist. Particularly the data privacy la ...
AustriaE-CARUSO The Caruso project provides tools for private car sharing. For the new project 'E-Caruso' we are focusing on optimizing these tools for car sharing with electric vehicles. The communication between the on-board-diagnostics of the vehicl ...
AustriaEUFAL Although daily use and trip patterns in commercial transport fit Electric Vehicles (EVs), and vehicle technology is available, the use of EVs in urban freight and city logistics is well below the potential identified in various projects. The challen ...
AustriaMETRO.FREIGHT.2020 In most European congested urban areas the railtracks of the 19th and 20th century serving locations of industry and goods stations were removed, transformed for the public transportation, closed down or used for other utilisation. The ...
AustriaAntriebssysteme-ZVB The Zillertaler Verkehrsbetriebe AG (ZVB) and the government of Tyrol are working for some time on the future strategic orientation of the Zillertalbahn. In the year 2015 a study was prepared which has examined possible strategic actio ...
AustriaOxidiesel Caused by the fix blending rates of the European Union, biofuels become more and more important. Currently, the biogenic components in diesel fuel are mainly covered by fatty acid methyl ester (FAME). However, the EU 2020 targets regarding diese ...
AustriaOxy-Gen2 One of the causes of inefficiency, the diesel engine is the backbone of road mobility for people and goods. Therefore, it is a priority to identify sustainable alternative fuels with no usage restriction. Within the project, the selection and eva ...
AustriaAs a result of increasing global integration and societal mobility, the international aeronautics industry is experiencing dynamic growth. It is one of the most sophisticated sectors with a strong influence on other industry and service sectors and air tr ...
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