European project to deliver green traffic management

A major European project aimed at delivering green traffic management systems in European cities and towns will be officially launched at the National Space Centre in Leicester, England, tomorrow. The project, which brings together research clusters from five European regions, is being led by the University of Leicester and Leicester City Council. Other local partners are De Montfort University, The University of Nottingham and Astrium Services – Leicester who will be working in partnership with research cl
March 20, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
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A major European project aimed at delivering green traffic management systems in European cities and towns will be officially launched at the 4088 National Space Centre in Leicester, England, tomorrow. The project, which brings together research clusters from five European regions, is being led by the 4091 University of Leicester and 4092 Leicester City Council. Other local partners are 4093 De Montfort University, The 4095 University of Nottingham and 4094 Astrium Services – Leicester who will be working in partnership with research clusters from the Molise region in Italy, the Midi-Pyrenees and Aquitaine regions in France and the Mazovia region in Poland.

Called 'the issue' (Transport Health Environment – Intelligent Solutions Sustaining Urban Economies), the three-year, €2.7 million, project will support scientists, engineers and development agencies from the different regions to work together, using the latest space and information technologies, to develop more effective methods of easing road congestion and improving the urban environment. Ultimately, it is hoped that the research outcomes will be used to influence future policy and the implementation of traffic management systems that benefit public health and safety.

"With the EU funding we have secured, we can now coordinate different research activities in the same general areas of traffic and the environment that are being carried out by partners from across Europe. These sorts of outcomes have never been brought together in this way before,” claimed Professor Alan Wells, at the University of Leicester's Space Research Centre, who is the scientific leader of the project. "The scientific teams at the heart of the project will be working closely with the bodies responsible for managing traffic, transport and air quality in the UK and European regions to explore how this research can be of value to them."
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