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2012-02-07
The VREF, after ten years of contribution to the development of sustainable transportation, summarize their activities and close collaboration with their initiated CoEs through a book.
The VREF is focusing on one coherent programme: Future Urban Transport - How to deal with complexity (FUT). The programme emerged in a context of increasingly-rapid urbanization and heavy motorization of cities, and the intention was to contribute to the development of sustainable transportation systems that also meet the needs of the entire population of a city - including those with the least resources. Solutions at the system level are needed, because a number of components - including land use, city planning, transport system choices and how decisions are made - need to be addressed simultaneously to develop sustainable transportation systems.
Thus far there are eight Centres of Excellence (CoE) established globally, representing a global infrastructure of more than 100 researchers. All CoEs work in close collaboration with traffic and city planners, transport operators, decision makers and interest groups.
This book is a progress report on that work, highlighting examples of findings from this research effort.
News
2012-03-19
Håkan Frisinger Award ceremony 2011 at Chalmers Hus, Gothenburg, Sweden
News | The Håkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research has awarded its 2011 scholarship to Professor Annika Stensson Trigell, Director of the Centre of Vehicle Engineering Research at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Chosen by the Volvo Research and Education Foundations, the...
2012-02-07
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