Location-based services use information on the geographical position of mobile devices like smart phones and tablets. These services are expanding beyond consumer-facing products like the check-in applications (apps) one often sees on Facebook, and nowadays they are even powering advertisements, weather and travel apps.
With supporting infrastructure and applications in place, SafeTRIP technology could allow automatic payment of road-user charges (such as road tolls or congestion charges) across Europe or give passengers the ability to look for hotels or restaurants and book them while on the move.
Transparency, security and reliability of individual containers are factors that are incredibly difficult to verify in the world of international goods transport.
For pilots, one of the most difficult skills to learn is ‘upset recovery’ – righting a plane that has stalled or been thrown into an unstable situation due to weather or a technical problem.
EU and Japanese researchers have teamed up to map a path for developing high-speed air travel. Getting people to their destinations faster in a safe way for a reasonable cost is the goal. They will also look at potential technologies, environmental impact, and other factors to provide a vision of our transport of the future.
The International Partnering Event gives the opportunity during TRA 2014 in Paris to identify and connect with future partners for technology partnering or international projects such as Horizon 2020.
The EU-funded INGAS project has improved the designs for engines and vehicles that run on natural gas – making them more attractive to drive while benefiting the environment.
Technological and scientific developments made it possible to double the size of cruise ships every decade since the 1970s . Today, the largest vessels can carry up to 8,500 passengers . Yet, while the expansion of ships has been racing ahead, their safety regulations have stayed virtually unchanged.
Do you live near an airport or fly regularly? Even if you don't, new research that promises to lead to improved aircraft aerodynamics will benefit us all. It will ultimately enable planes to be built that are less noisy, use less fuel and pollute less – a win-win situation for society, the environment and the aviation industry.
With visions of zero carbon emissions and superior performance, partners in the largest ever endeavour to modernise ship engines first put their heads together in 2004.
Nine years later, the core team in this EU-funded project has honed in on the concepts with genuine promise – from more robust materials to innovative fuel injection systems. Some of the team’s findings can already be found in new ship engines.
Major oil spills from sinking supertankers are thankfully very rare these days. However, smaller oil spills from shipping are unfortunately still common.
Most ships have some type of fuel on board and if they are involved in an accident, there is a risk of that fuel leaking into the sea.
Container ships are the life blood of global trade, transporting raw materials and manufactured goods across the globe. But with fewer than 2% of containers x-rayed or physically checked at customs, they also present a security risk.
Thanks to an EU-funded project, cutting-edge tracking technology designed to make cargo shipping significantly safer and more efficient could soon be commercially available.
The European Green Vehicles Initiative (EGVI) contractual Public-Private Partnership (cPPP) will be launched on Tuesday 17 December 2013 in Brussels, with the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
On the occasion of TRA 2014, the major conference on transport research held in Paris, TRA Visions Contest, two competitions are launched, one for students and young researchers and one for senior researchers.
National Info Days or sessions about Transport Research in Horizon 2020 and the new funding opportunities are organised betweeen the end of 2013 and early 2014.
