Cleaner transport in Europe

Europe will see more than half a million electric vehicles (EVs) on its roads by the end of 2016, as revealed by a study conducted by Transport & Environment (T&E), an organisation that campaigns for smarter, cleaner transport in Europe.
Including Norway (and other non-EU members) Europe is the second largest market for purely electric cars in the world.

Deutsche Bahn passenger App now offered for three more regions in Germany

Deutsche Bahn holds one of the most popular platforms for trains in EU region. DB passenger App added three new regions in this app. These are the regions Baden-Wurttemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland.

In this app user can create communities so to travel together with low prices. They can rate ther fellows and they can add them as favourites. They can also set preferences in search of the right fellow.

The app was designed in cooperation with students from TU Munich. Since now app has 25.000 users.

Registration opens for European Mobility Week 2016

This year EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK will be held from the 16th to the 22nd of September, 2016 under the banner of 'Smart and sustainable mobility - an investment for Europe', referring to the close ties between transport and economics and encouraging local politicians and the public to look at smart and sustainable mobility as an investment for Europe.

Explaining road transport emissions - A non-technical guide

  EMISIA, GYM consortium's member, has co-authored a non-technical guide “explaining road transport emissions”, recently published by the European Environment Agency. The report provides a summary of the current knowledge on vehicle emissions in Europe, it also explains how emissions are monitored and the common technologies used to limit them.

Road transport is an important source of both greenhouse gases and air pollutants. Despite improvements in vehicle efficiencies over past decades, today the sector is responsible for almost one fifth of Europe's greenhouse gas emissions. Emissions from vehicles also lead to high concentrations of air pollutants above EU standards in many of Europe's cities. This report provides a summary of the current knowledge on vehicle emissions in Europe. It also explains how emissions are monitored and the common technologies used to limit them.

This is why GYM matters

Some 80,000 deaths are prevented each year thanks to the introduction of EU policies and new technologies to reduce air pollution. This is the finding of a new study led by the UK’s University of Leeds that shows a 35% reduction of fine particles in the atmosphere between 1970 and 2010. 

In the study – the first to look into the effectiveness of specific EU policies to reduce air pollution across Europe – researchers used a computer model to compare the current amount of air pollution simulated across Europe to a scenario in which no air quality legislation or new emissions technologies had been introduced since 1970.