The Research Programme Urban Transport (FoPS) is a funding programme of the Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructures (BMVI) for improving transportation conditions in communities.
Large public organisations tend to create a huge amount of knowledge through commissioned research studies. However, making use of this knowledge often is difficult as technical or scientific reports may be voluminous and/or difficult to digest for non-expert readers.
As mobility is an important part of our life, and the interconnectedness of the economy leads to more and more transport, we expect to see significant growth in freight as well as in passenger transport in the future. Forecasts predict that the global vehicle population – currently about 1.2 billion
The Operational Programme on Transport 2014-2020 (OPT) is one of six operational programmes of the Republic of Bulgaria, which are financed by the Structural and the Cohesion Funds of the EU. The OPT programme is the operational programme with one of the largest budgets in Bulgaria. The goal of OPT
Because public roads are fixed, have a long lifetime and are expensive, the development, maintenance, operation and reconstruction must be prepared with detailed research work. The development, operation and maintenance of public roads will be a national and communal duty also in the future, as will
According to recent projections, the volume of freight traffic is expected to rise from 371 billion tonne-km in 1997 to 608 billion tkm by the year 2015. This corresponds to an increase of 64.1 %. With an expected increase of 105 %, road transit through Germany will contribute a significant share to
The Bulgarian rail transport sector is one of the major and very important transport sectors of Bulgaria. The transport strategy of MOTC (Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications), BDZ Ltd.- (Bulgarian Railways) and The NSRI (National State Railways Infrastructure Ltd.) is to develop the
The development and improvement of the Bulgarian national road infrastructure as an integral part of the Pan-European infrastructure has been identified as a priority in the policy of the Bulgarian Government.On the base of scientific and technological research the PMSS target is to ensure that the
The aim of the Central Technological Development Programme established by the Government Order No. VII. 10. 98/1996 is to promote: the technological development and innovation connected to the international scientific technological development that is efficient on national economic level and that
