To achieve the goal of safer, cleaner and more efficient transport, the European Commission is collecting feedback on C-ITS (cooperative intelligent transport systems) provisions until February 8. In many aspects, today's vehicles are already connected devices, and they are being linked and integrated into our ever...
The International Council on Clean Transportation has published a 2018 update of the From Laboratory to Road series. This report covers approximately 1.3 million passenger cars from 15 data sources and eight European countries. The update shows that in 2017, for the first time in years,...
The EU is setting CO2 emission reduction targets for heavy-duty vehicles for the first time. The Council agreed its position (general approach) on a proposal to reduce CO2 emissions of new heavy-duty vehicles. This agreement provides the presidency with a mandate to start negotiations with...
Technological progress and globalisation offer tremendous opportunities for innovation, growth and jobs. These developments require skilled and adaptable people who are able to drive and support change.In order to address skills gaps that may prevent promising industries from growing, the Blueprint for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills was launched as...
Three projects (5GCroco, 5G-Carmen, 5G-Mobix) that aim at setting up trial 5G networks along four cross-border corridors were presented on 5 December at the ICT 2018 in Vienna. Metz-Merzig-Luxembourg, Munich-Bologna via the Brenner Pass, and Porto-Vigo and Evora-Merida, both between Spain and Portugal were selected as...
The European Parliament and the Council yesterday reached a political agreement on strong rules to decarbonise and modernise the mobility sector. They provisionally agreed on new CO2 emission standards for cars and light vans in the EU for the period after 2020, emissions from new cars will...
The Horizon 2020 ENSEMBLE project is paving the way to enable the first generation multi-brand truck platooning with the involvement of all European truck brands by 2022. The aim of platooning is to increase road traffic safety, as well as efficiency, by introducing ad hoc...
Companies in the European Union have increased their investment in research and development (R&D) for the eighth consecutive year. In 2017, they invested 5.5% more in R&D activities than the year before. This growth is driven by the automobile, health and ICT sectors. In a telling...
CLEPA held the Counterfeit Day event on the 22nd of November 2018. Specialists from law enforcement, politics and technology providers exchanged their views on latest developments and state of the art technologies to prevent counterfeits. All presentations are now available on the website, and below. The...
The ICT4CART consortium met at the first ICT4CART plenary session, held on 28 and 29 November 2018 in Vienna, to discuss several of the challenges of automated road transport. The first day was dedicated to examining potential partnerships between the private and the public sector to...