Big data has opened a wide spectrum of opportunities in the field of transport research. Observing the recent emergent interest in the application of big data within transport, as well as the extended scope of its applications, it is evident that most of the challenges have yet to be addressed. Leveraging Big Data to Manage Transport Operations (LeMO) project will explore the implications of the utilisation of big data to enhance the economic sustainability and competitiveness of European transport sector. The project will study and analyse big data in the European transport domain in particular with respect to five transport dimensions: mode, sector, technology, policy and evaluation. LeMO will accomplish this by conducting a series of case studies, in order to provide recommendations on the prerequisites of effective big data implementation in the transport field. Through case studies, LeMO will investigate methodological, technological, governmental and institutional issues, which in turn contribute to evidence-based decision making. LeMO will supplement these case studies with a horizontal analysis that identifies the barriers and limitations of the transportation system to exploit big data opportunities. In collaboration with strong advisory and reference group, and expert stakeholders, LeMO will devise and develop research and policy roadmap that will provide incremental steps necessary towards data openness and sharing to make transport safer, more efficient and more sustainable. Notably, LeMO will bring crucial issues linked to privacy, data security and legal aspects to the forefront, paving the way for future legal framework for the collection and exploitation of big data in transport. Furthermore, LeMO will disseminate project findings to a large population of stakeholders, including transport authorities and industries leading to better understanding of travellers' and consumers' behaviour, targeted information and identify policy interventions.
Electricity generation gives rise to negative impacts on the environment and human health throughout all stages of its life-cycle. To date, power generation remains the largest GHG-emitting sector in Europe. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is by far the most commonly-emitted GHG across the sector, being a product of combustion processes. An almost complete decarbonisation of the EU’s electricity sector is needed in order to meet the EU’s objective of becoming the first carbon-neutral continent by 2050. Electricity can play an increasing role in decarbonising energy use across a number of sectors, such as transport, industry and households. Information about the carbon intensity of electricity generation is therefore relevant for many stakeholders. The EEA and its European Topic Centre for Climate Change Mitigation and Energy (ETC/CME) produce each year country- and EU-level data on the average annual CO2 emission intensity of electricity generation.
EUCalc replies to topic a) Managing technology transition. The EUCalc project will deliver a much needed comprehensive framework for research, business, and decision making which enables an appraisal of synergies and trade-offs of feasible decarbonisation pathways on the national scale of Europe and its member countries + Switzerland. The novel and pragmatic modelling approach is rooted between pure complex energy system and emissions models and integrated impact assessment tools, introduces an intermediate level of complexity and a multi-sector approach and is developed in a co-design process with scientific and societal actors. EUCalc explores decisions made in different sectors, like power generation, transport, industry, agriculture, energy usage and lifestyles in terms of climatological, societal, and economic consequences. For politicians at European and member state level, stakeholders and innovators EUCalc will therefore provide a Transition Pathways Explorer, which can be used as a much more concrete planning tool for the needed technological and societal challenges, associated inertia and lock-in effects. EUCalc will enable to address EU sustainability challenges in a pragmatic way without compromising on scientific rigour. It is meant to become a widely used democratic tool for policy and decision making. It will close - based on sound model components - a gap between actual climate-energy-system models and an increasing demands of decision makers for information at short notice. This will be supported by involving an extended number of decision-makers from policy and business as well as other stakeholders through expert consultations and the co-design of a Transition Pathways Explorer, a My Europe 2050 education tool and a Massive Open Online Course.
Objective: Increasing awareness by the public opinion about environmental issues, energy and material conservation at all stages of product life (from raw materials to disposal/recycling) is putting the industry in general and the transport industry in particular under increased pressure to reduce CO2 emissions and save energy. Environmental protection and safety will be increasingly influenced by legislation. The European transport industry is estimated to generate 22 percent of the carbon dioxide emission. As the car population is expected to grow 40 percent by the year 2010 new tough targets for reducing emissions by 30 percent in 2010 are being set by the EU, against the state of the art technologies of 1995. It is generally agreed by the industry that reductions of this size will require a change in current technologies. Multi-material technology (sandwich and/or hybrid materials) is becoming increasingly important in new vehicle design. Public service vehicles (buses and coaches) are regarded as primary targets for application of sandwich construction and multi-materials. Public service vehicles (PSV) play a major role in the transportation industry of both industrialized and developing countries. The proposed project will be focused on the development of a novel technology to manufacture bus/coach bodies using sandwich multi-material panels. The main overall objectives of the project are: - Solving the problem of reducing weight and production costs of land transport vehicles through the development of a technology of modular bus/coach construction, using 'all composite' multi-material sandwich panels instead of steel/aluminium space frame lined with sheets of different materials. - Devise design methodologies that reduce production lead time through reduction of number of components, functional integration, and allowance for dismantling, easy repair and recycling. Primce Contractor: INEGI - Instituto de Engenharia Mecanica e Gestao Industrial, Leca do Balio, Portugal.
This study establishes the external health costs caused by air pollution in Switzerland in the year 2000. The primary focus is on road and rail traffic related air pollution. First of all, the population's exposure to airborne pollutants is determined. Based on this, the additional cases of illness and death caused by air pollution are calculated. Using specific cost rates per incidence of illness and death, the impacts on health are then converted into monetary units. Where road traffic is concerned, health costs related to air pollution run to some 1,525 million CHF, of which 57 percent or 871 million CHF are caused by passenger transport, while the remaining 43 percent or 655 million CHF are caused by freight transport. The corresponding figure for rail traffic is 100 million CHF (46 percent passenger and 54 percent freight transport). Air pollution overall - caused by traffic, industry, commerce, households, agriculture and forestry - results in costs of 4,204 million CHF. This figure corresponds to 628 CHF per capita, or compared to GDP it is in the order of magnitude of 1.12 percent.
Die ProgTrans AG (Basel) und das ZEW (Mannheim) haben 1998 ein neues Informationsinstrument auf Basis einer Expertenbefragung entwickelt und umgesetzt, das 'TransportmarktBarometer von ProgTrans/ZEW'. Das Panel umfasst gut 300 ausgewählte Experten aus der verladenden Wirtschaft und der Transportwirtschaft in Deutschland. Diese Auswahl garantiert eine hohe fachliche Kompetenz der Teilnehmer und gewährt eine auf breiter Basis gestützte Experteneinschätzung zu den Entwicklungen in den wesentlichen Transportmärkten. Nach einer Pilotphase im Jahre 1998 wurde deshalb entschieden, die Erhebungen auf unbegrenzte Zeit weiterzuführen. Die Experten werden seither viermal im Jahr gebeten, ihre Einschätzungen hinsichtlich der Entwicklung der Transportpreise und -mengen für das jeweils kommende Halbjahr in sieben verschiedenen Transportmarktsegmenten abzugeben. Zum Dank für die Mitwirkung erhalten die Teilnehmer die Ergebnisse der Auswertung kostenfrei. Darüber hinaus werden Ergebnisse der Presse zur Verfügung gestellt. Auch in Zukunft sollen weitere Interessenten aus der verladenden Wirtschaft und Transportwirtschaft die Möglichkeit erhalten, Teilnehmer der Panel-Erhebung zu werden.
To establish a single European Transport Area that can supply Europe with efficient, secure and sustainable transport solutions, for the smooth functioning of the internal market - to reduce CO2 emissions and road accidents of traffice and transport systems - optimising the performance of logistic chains, making greater use of more energy-efficient techniques and modes and making the transport industry a more advanced, attractive and fair employer - to develop a toolbox for green corridors consisting of guidelines, tools and recommendations for greening of logistics and transport Wenn möglich, beschreiben Sie das Vorhaben auf Englisch.: SWIFTLY Green (Sweden-Italy Freight Transport and Logistics Green Corridor) is a European project aiming to develop a toolbox for green corridors. The toolbox will consist of guidelines, tools and recommendations for greening of logistics and transport. It will be based on best practice and transferable results from a thorough mapping and analysis of previous and on-going projects. Project for greening of transports The mission for the SWIFTLY Green project is to support the development of green logistics and transport in Europe. The concrete result will be a toolbox for increased consideration of green issues in the TEN-T planning and implementation of the TEN-T core network corridors.
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