The 21st century faces us with challenges that require a collective European response: scarcity of resources, traffic congestion, and pollution are just a few of them. In the transport sector, research is at the core of developing innovative technologies and ways of working that will make the ch...
This report offers a snapshot of the status of the environment for nanotechnology in the context of transport. Transport is defined here as a sector based on vehicles for transporting people and/or goods via the air, rail, road, water and space, and is here divided into two main areas, vehicles ...
The study addresses the lack of comparable statistics concerning walking and cycling in the EU. Travel surveys are the main source of statistics on average daily walking and cycling distance and number of trips per person. Countries were divided in seven groups according to the data collection a...
This booklet looks back on the last five years’ work of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and seeks to draw lessons for the future. Had it been written only a few months ago, the context would have been the unprecedentedly high price of oil and its impact on transport costs and traffic toge...
