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Discussing the VECTO test to measure CO2 emissions from trucks and buses
The European Commission has developed a test procedure called VECTO to measure CO2 emissions from new trucks and buses. The VECTO test procedure is a simulation tool that aims to provide truck buyers...
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Low-carbon cities ‘a $17 trillion opportunity’
New research has suggested that investing in public and low-emission transport could bring massive financial savings in addition to making a sizeable contribution to reducing greenhouse gases....
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CO2 standards for 2025 needed – Parliament report
CO2 standards for new vehicles have been proven to work and new targets should be introduced for 2025 and 2030, a report for the European Parliament’s transport committee has said. The limited...
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Eliminating truck blind spots – a matter of (direct) vision
The way trucks are designed and configured has a major impact on what truck drivers are able to see from their cab (direct vision). A new study by Loughborough Design School (LDS) has analysed the...
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How can the EU accelerate the market for ultra-low carbon vehicles?
When? Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 18:00 to 21:00 Addressing representatives of Member States, Commission Representatives and MEPs, this event will release and discuss new evidence on which...
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Transport: Europe's biggest climate problem – read T&E's 2016 annual report
Type of publicationAnnual reviewTransport ModeAll modesAviationCarsFreightFuelsInfrastructureLorriesPublic and urbanShippingVansRelated issuesAir PollutionClimate Change and EnergyNoisePolicy...
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Air pollution on the rise in Spain
Some 97% of Spain’s population is being exposed to harmful levels of air pollution, a report by T&E’s Spanish member Ecologistas en Acción shows. The economic recovery has brought an increase in...
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EU lawmakers support life-saving ‘direct vision’ cabs for trucks and buses
The European Parliament’s Internal Market Committee today backed safer ‘direct vision’ trucks and buses [1], amongst a dozen new life-saving measures for cars, vans, buses and trucks. The new direct...
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Less (cars) is more: how to go from new to sustainable mobility
This paper shows through research and transport modelling the possible outcomes of the autonomous (and connected), electric, shared (new mobility), and urban planning revolutions. Based on the...
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Runaway driverless cars will increase congestion and accelerate climate...
The unregulated advent of driverless cars could increase traffic in European cities by 50% to 150% by 2050, which would be like a rush hour that lasts all day, a new study by Europe’s transport...
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