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ETIS-AGENT Transport Policy makers need information that will support their decisions regarding the potentiality of the implementation of a particular policy. This information is coming in the form of performance and supporting indicators. These indicator ...
EuropeanCONSAVE 2050 Following a proposal of a German Aviation Scenario Circle AERONET has performed two workshops on 'Long-term Scenarios of Aviation and its Emissions' at- DLR, Cologne, 17–18 October 2000,- the Airport Palma de Mallorca, 19-21 March 2 ...
EuropeanSEAM Unquestionably, all shipping operations exert pressures on the marine environment. In parallel, legal framework on this issue is rapidly evolving at international, European and local levels, in order to reach a safe and environmentally acceptable mar ...
EuropeanECBOS In the EC approximately 30,000 people a year are injured as bus or coach occupants in accidents involving transports of more than 5,000 kg of weight. Some 150 of these suffer fatal injuries. The kind of accidents which occur throughout EU countries ...
EuropeanIMMORTAL Road traffic safety is a significant issue for society. In the European Union there are approximately 45,000 fatalities per year. At an assumed cost of 3.6 million euros per fatality, the total annual financial loss can be estimated to be 162 mil ...
EuropeanSIMTAG SIMTAG is part of the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme for RTD, Competitive and Sustainable Growth Programme. The Project addresses Task 2.2.4/2-establishment of harmonised security and safety procedures for freight intermodal t ...
EuropeanERA-NET TRANSPORT Europe has a longstanding tradition of excellence in research and innovation. However the centres of excellence are scattered across the continent. Up to now, there was little co-operation between research projects funded by the national ...
EuropeanEUROPOLAR Polar research tackles some of the major concerns of society and it is, therefore, essential for Europe to benefit from an efficient advisory and policy support mechanism dealing with the Polar Regions. Until now cooperation between European cou ...
EuropeanSTART As it has been clearly shown in the Green Paper on Energy Efficiency, that progress to improve energy efficiency in the transport sector is vital. Policy measures can provide incentives for technical advances. The first step was the adoption of an E ...
EuropeanAERONET III Forecasts show continuing growth of 3-4 % per year for air transport to meet the needs of modern society. Despite good progress and impressive reductions in aero-engine emissions, further R&D is necessary to safeguard the environmental sus ...
EuropeanECATS The January 2001 report 'European Aeronautics: A Vision for 2020', set the goal for Europe to become the uncontested world leader in the field of aeronautics by 2020. Reducing the environmental impact of air transport, with regard to emiss ...
EuropeanBYPAD Platform BYPAD (Bicycle Policy Audit) is an instrument for the evaluation of local and regional cycling policy and improvement of its quality. BYPAD has been applied and developed continuously since 1999, with the support of the European Commission. ...
EuropeanCALM II Noise still belongs to the environmental pollutants causing a great deal of concern. This is an essential societal problem, and transportation is seen as its primary source. Accepting mobility as a basic human need and as an essential precondition ...
EuropeanDIFIS A great number of wrecks exist in the sea or on the ocean bed all over the world, many of them having a quantity of hydrocarbons trapped in their tanks (cargo and/or fuel). Each one of these wrecks constitutes a more or less serious threat for the e ...
EuropeanECODRIVEN Showing car and truck drivers how to drive their vehicle in safe and fuel-saving ways is cost-effective, easy to achieve and leads quickly to solid environmental improvements, namely substantial contributions to Kyoto and air quality targets. Ye ...
EuropeanHUNPOL-TRANS The enlargement of the European Union in 2004 provided the opportunity to enlarge scientific cooperation. In fact, cooperation between East and South-east European countries is essential to tackle topics in environmental research with a wider ...
EuropeanMOTOS The process of integrating transport policies within the enlarged Union was a challenging issue for the New EU Member States. Transport policy tools of the New EU Member States had to be developed and integrated within the European model tools, to e ...
EuropeanNET-TRACK The Commission proposed the European Research Area (ERA) in January 2000. It has since been endorsed by the Heads of State and Government, and is now the major research policy debate in Europe. The ERA has been described by the commissioner Phil ...
EuropeanRCI In Europe, different road charging systems are operated by professional companies that make use of State-of-the-Art technologies. Current road charging is successful but a public standard that is needed for interoperable road charging solutions that w ...
EuropeanTRANSFORUM The European Union has repeatedly expressed its commitment to the principles of sustainable mobility. Member States and the Commission are working together to develop a transport system that provides access to people, places, goods and services ...
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