TRIMIS
Transport Research and Innovation Monitoring and Information System
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Traditionally the development of haulage has been evaluated on the basis of economic development. After the 1980s, domestic haulage has fallen behind from the rate of economic growth. In practice this means that GDP does not explain the changes in haulage ...
FinlandThe study is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Transport Systems Plan 2002. The results support the decision making process that aim to determine the future transport system for the region. The study concludes that if the transport demand increases a ...
FinlandAn act entered into force in the beginning of 2003 prohibiting the driver of an motor vehicle from using a mobile phone while driving, if that driver is holding the phone in his/her hand. The study assessed the long-term effects of hands-free legislation ...
FinlandDUI (Driving Under the Influence of alcohol) is one of the greatest dangers in road traffic. In Finland, every year approximately 80 people die and 1000 are injured in accidents caused by DUI. A three year BAIID (Breath Alcohol Ignition Interlock Device, ...
FinlandMETKA Finland needs a strong and thriving metropolis. The growth and expansion of the region poses challenges for land use, environment and transport that will require wide co-operation amongst the authorities. The future structural development of the lar ...
FinlandA vision for 2030 is “A prosperous Finland – efficient sea routes”. Its objective is to ensure that: Finnish foreign trade and domestic waterborne transport are smoothly functioning and socio-economically viable and international competitiveness is ensur ...
FinlandThe existing road tax regime was not originally intended as a transport policy tool, but rather as a means of generating tax revenue for the government. However road taxation could also serve as an effective transport policy tool that could help to direct ...
FinlandThis report presents the background of technical experimentation with broadband installation on trains and new business models arising due to broadband installation. The study investigated, from the technical and economical viewpoints, the feasibility of ...
FinlandPost-war Finland has been built up successfully. Establishing a Nordic welfare state has been a joint effort that has given us a highly-developed infrastructure, comprehensive services, world-class education and innovation policies as well as, above all, ...
FinlandFinland’s Second Generation Intelligent Strategy for Transport shares the vision, objectives and principles of the Strategy for Intelligent Transport published in 2009. The implementation of this strategy will be customer-oriented and cross-administrative ...
FinlandTransport 2030 Transport policy is facing major challenges. Controlling climate change is the most significant of these. Greenhouse gases produced by the transport sector increase year after year and they now account for about a fifth of all of Finland’s ...
FinlandThe transport system consists of transport infrastructure, means of transport, transport services, people who are travelling and goods that are being transported, as well as the associated services, information, statutes and organisations. Transport polic ...
FinlandMain Road 7 is a narrow road with closely spaced interchanges. The number of vehicles between Hamina and Vaalimaa amounts to 6,000 per day, 3,500 of which cross the state border. The share of heavy-duty vehicles is 30 %. During peak periods, the large tra ...
FinlandHALTI Improving traffic safety in Finland calls for intense action. Automated enforcement (speed cameras) is seen as an effective measure, which is also widely accepted among citizens. However, police resources and current legislation make it very hard to ...
FinlandIt is necessary to determine the transport-related, socio-economic and other essential impacts of trials of new Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), applications and services in a reliable and consistent way, so that the wide-range implementation of corre ...
FinlandTASKU The most well-known identification technologies used in tracking and tracing are bar codes and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). Of these two, RFID is rapidly becoming more commonly used. Its advantages are the possibility to read/write in tags ...
FinlandToKi Quantitative analysis of historical supply chain data has proven itself as a useful tool for initiating development actions in a supply chain network. Using time-based performance metrics such as lead times, promised delivery times and delivery punct ...
FinlandLIIKUTUS Nordic countries have their visions of traffic safety. E.g. Finland has a vision, which states that no one should die or be seriously disabled due to a traffic accident. In the project appraisal system, which is based on calculation of the socio- ...
FinlandThere is a need for examples of traffic safety, equal accessibility for all road users and the promotion of human health. Special attention needs to be paid to integrating solutions into the landscape, to the valuable and small-scale village environment, ...
FinlandNAVIfuture The purpose of the NAVIfuture Project has been to produce an expert assessment of the development by 2005 of the personal navigation market. The definition of personal navigation used in this survey is a broad one, covering positioning technolo ...
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