This fire red performance car features a familiar prancing animal logo and is aimed at those with a need for speed, but who live in more congested urban environments
February 9, 2018
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This fire red performance car features a familiar prancing animal logo and is aimed at those with a need for speed, but who live in more congested urban environments.
An innovative road repair technology should be able to cut delays and congestion when surface maintenance is required. This new approach has already been proven successfully on a busy highway stretch in the UK and is now likely to be introduced more widely in Europe. The Nu-Phalt system minimises the need for material transport to site, reducing the additional congestion caused by heavy truck traffic to a workzone. A crew of two is able to work from a single vehicle and without the need for pneumatic or hyd
A high-tech European project involving cars could reduce fuel consumption by up to one-fifth as Patrick Smith reports. A new EU project, Sartre, is aimed at developing and testing technology for vehicles that can drive themselves in long road trains on motorways.
Experts in health, city planning, environment and transport from Europe and the United States, including several local authorities, stressed how active travel can drive urban economic growth and save public health funds during a recent prestigious workshop event in Brussels, Belgium. Integrating health aspects in transportation planning was the focus of The Polis Environment & Health working group meeting at the European Economic and Social committee on 30th October. The event gathered experts from organisa
The Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry of Japan is about to introduce a study panel to carry out in-depth discussions concerning a vehicle autopilot driving system. The system, which is aimed to be realised in the early 2020s, will apply to self-steering vehicles that feature their own navigation capability. The government intends to build special expressway lanes for such self-driving cars. After entering the designated lanes, the autonomous vehicle can take over the driving task entirely
