Towards zero-emissions bus transport

Late 2016, London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced to join 11 other major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Hamburg and Amsterdam, that have committed to begin moves to phase out their procurement of pure diesel buses by the end of 2020. With the initiative, major cities are working together to challenge bus manufacturers to produce...

Great challenges life ahead for low-carbon long-haul transport

The supply chain of goods delivered in urban areas is larger than the transport associated purely with the ‘last mile’ in city distribution. In retail, for example, the flow of goods is often routed via regional or national distribution centres. The transport of goods towards and between these centres is often characterized by long-distance...

Decarbonising commercial road transport

There is growing consensus among governments, businesses and consumers about climate change and the required energy transition. At the Paris climate conference (COP21) in December 2015, 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal. The agreement sets out a global action plan to put the world on track to...

Inzetbaarheid van zero emissie bussen in Nederland

In 2012 ondertekende de Minister van het Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu de Green Deal Zero Emissie Busvervoer, met als ultieme doel een volledig emissievrije bussenvloot in 2025. Dat betekent een ambitie om in 2025 alle OV-bussen te hebben voorzien van elektrische aandrijving, waaronder batterij-elektrisch en waterstofelektrisch....

Performance of battery electric buses in practice: Energy consumption and range

The Netherlands in-service testing programme for heavy-duty vehicle emissions 2012

Final report of the research program (VTP1) on an emissions and CO2 test procedure for heavy duty hybrids (HDH)

The Netherlands in-service testing programme for heavy-duty vehicle emissions 2012: summary report

Afsluitende rapportage praktijkproef elektrisch rijden RWS

One year monitoring of 26 electric vehicles

The Dutch government regards electric driving as a very promising option to make our future automobility more sustainable, to strenghten the Dutch energy position and to give our economy a structural boost. Therefore, it was decided to gain experience of electric driving through field tests with the Dutch Government's Public Works Department....

Supporting analysis regarding test procedure flexibilities and technology deployment for review of the light duty vehicle CO2 regulations

A tool suite for developing and evaluating cooperative driving systems

Cooperative driving systems influence individual vehicles, either through advisory or autonomous actions, so as to optimize the collective behavior in terms of throughput, safety, fuel consumption and/or emissions. Cooperative driving systems need to function properly in a vast amount of different traffic scenarios. However, performing field...