As a cornerstone of its urban mobility policy, the European Commission has strongly encouraged European towns and cities of all sizes to embrace the concept of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs). By improving accessibility to, through and within urban areas and promoting the shift towards ...
With thousands of old European steel and composite bridges, there is a need of rational methods to strengthen existing bridges to compensate not only for their age, but also for higher and more frequent loads. This report is based on three distinctive ideas which each has the potential to reduce...
As in many occasions in marine sciences, it is impossible to know the true value of the primary production rates (PPR) in EU waters. There exist different approaches based on diverse methodologies (water incubation, remote sensing and numerical models) all with flaws and strength. As evaluating ...
Over the past two years (2018-2019) European aviation has been confronted with serious capacity challenges and high levels of delay. Subsequently, the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that the European airspace system lacks resilience and the ability to absorb demand shocks, be these in the form o...
This report summarizes the results of an experimental study assessing the real-world environmental performance and its comparison with laboratory measurements of two Euro VI step C Refuse Collection Heavy-Duty Vehicles. The first is equipped with a common-rail Diesel engine, a Selective Catalyti...
In the past ten years, the EU has improved cross-border energy infrastructure thanks to the Trans-European Networks for Energy (TEN-E). 95 energy infrastructure projects – known as Projects of Common Interest – have received €4.7 billion of funding under the EU budget through the Connecting Euro...
As the focus on climate change increases, several countries are implementing green strategies and rapidly switching to clean energy technologies. This is leading to an increase in demand for materials used to manufacture key components of such technologies, and the European Commission has alread...
The current medium-term plan (MTP III) is the third phase of the five-year cycle of programming for the implementation of Vision 2030 which is Kenya’s long-term development blue print adopted for the period 2008-2030. In addition to the objectives of Vision 2030, the MTP III also incorporates th...
