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TRC (EXTR@WEB II) The White Paper on Transport Policy and its Mid-term Review describe the challenges and the objectives for efficient, sustainable and user-friendly energy and transport systems in Europe. Research plays an important role in achieving the ...
EuropeanVIVACE ACARE, the 'Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe', defined five major strategic goals that need to be achieved by 2020 to provide more affordable, cleaner, safer and more secure air travel: Cheaper and passenger friendly ai ...
EuropeanMODURBAN According to the ERRAC (European Rail Research Advisory Council) study, 'Light Rail and Metro Systems in Europe: Current market, Perspectives and research implication', there are 170 LRT networks and 36 metro networks in Western Europe. ...
EuropeanTRIMOTRANS Road transportation is facing rapidly increasing congestion. On the other hand, the available capacity on railways and inland waterways is underutilised. A redistribution of the carriage of goods is urgently needed. Up until now the most import ...
EuropeanVISIONS Europe’s maritime industry has an impressive track record of being competitive with leading edge innovations. However, to defend this position in a globalizing world, long term market, society and technology challenges must be identified and tackl ...
EuropeanLINK The trends of growing long-distance traffic by road and air and stagnating rail and local public transport lead to an unsustainable imbalance. In the focus on the combined use of various transport modes for long distance and cross border travel, impr ...
EuropeanWATERBORNE-TP The European Council Lisbon Declaration setting a new strategic goal for the European Union: 'to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010' and in addition the European Union Transport Pol ...
EuropeanEMDM The EMDM project responds to the challenge of safe and secure maritime transport development in Europe as part of an intermodal system. The safety of maritime transport would be improved by a better knowledge and analysis of incidents and accidents. ...
EuropeanENCOMAR-Transport The new EU Member States, Applicant Countries, Russia and Ukraine are important strategic partners for jointly improving the competitiveness of the European maritime cluster in order to cope with increasing transport demand. The New Memb ...
EuropeanMOVE Energy consumption in the European Union is rising and so its our dependency on fossil fuels. At the same time, the EU has signed the Kyoto Protocol committing it to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in 2012 by 8%, in comparison to 1990 levels. Had tra ...
EuropeanASTER ASTER is a project carried out on behalf of DGVII of the European Commission in 2000-2001. The ASTER project has been initiated in response to Key action 2.2 of the Fifth Framework Programme (‘Competitive & Sustainable Growth’) of the European C ...
EuropeanBETA Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control systems (A-SMGCS) are developed and deployed to cope with airport safety, capacity and efficiency demands. A-SMGCS need to be prototyped in real environments and require the enhancement of procedures for ...
EuropeanCLEANER-DRIVE CLEANER-DRIVE is a 3-year collaborative research project supported by the European Commission DG Transport and Energy. CLEANER-DRIVE aims to exploit the experiences, stakeholder contacts and market influence of national programmes to overcom ...
EuropeanPARTICULATES Health effects of particulate emissions from road transport have been of interest for many years. Historically, particulate emissions from road vehicles have been controlled and progressively reduced through legislation based on particulate m ...
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EuropeanSPOTLIGHTS-TN Transport policy making processes are more and more complex. To support decision makers in this very demanding task, advanced tools and models are needed. Spotlights-TN is a scientific forum for European transport modellers to explore ways f ...
EuropeanTHINK-UP Co-operation and co-ordination becomes indeed a more and more important necessity not only between the countries or regions but also between different types of institutions which operate at different level: first there is the European Commission ...
EuropeanTIPP Transport policies are needed to guarantee efficient transportation systems that satisfy the mobility needs of people and firms and with a minimum cost and harm to the society and environment. Clearly this would not be possible without public effort. ...
EuropeanVERRES-VLTA This study, funded by the European Commission and undertaken by a European consortium has been able to investigate a wide variety of issues related to the evacuation of Very Large Transport Aircraft (VLTA). Some exploratory evacuation trials h ...
EuropeanCHILD The main goal of CHILD is to improve the child safety in road accidents. CHILD will enable the investigation of injury mechanisms and tolerances for different ages of children and to establish injury criteria and risk curves. CHILD aims to increase ...
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