Sustainable Transport and Logistics

TNO builds its advices on extensive knowledge of national and international mobility and logistic systems. This is supported by laboratory and 'real-world' measurements and simulations of relevant systems and subsystems.
Examples of this work are

• Measurements of vehicle emissions, both in the lab and in real traffic
• Modeling of traffic emissions and development of emission factors
• Assessment of vehicle and driveline technologies, monitoring of pilots with sustainable technologies
• Concepts and technologies for environmentally-friendly dynamic traffic management
• Strategies for The Netherlands as a hub in in worldwide freight chains
• Concepts and agreements for design, planning and management of common logistic processes
• Use of ICT for optimizing the performance of (international) logistic chains

The knowledge, methods and models developed by TNO are applied to several sectors of the mobility and logistics system:

• Assessment of the environmental impacts and other aspects of existing and future powertrain technologies for governments and other stakeholders, such that appropriately informed strategic decisions can be made
• Providing the basic data of current and future road-vehicle emissions, which are used by a variety of stakeholders in inventories, planning, solution development and assessments
• Development of concepts for environmentally-friendly traffic management and mobility systems
• Development of trade-logistic concepts with smart utilization of ICT
• Logistic partnerships in the build and construction supply chain, innovative concepts for city distribution, improved logistic efficiency by cooperation and control organizations for logistic cooperation
• Foresight studies of freight transport and logistics in order to identify bottle necks, evaluation of measures and development of strategic visions

• State-of-the-art emission model VERSIT+ is based on 25 years of measuring vehicle emissions.
• Multi-annual framework contracts for advising national governments and European governmental bodies in the areas of traffic emissions, legislation, supporting policy and so forth
• In several projects, we record real-world data of pilots/tests with new, sustainable vehicle technologies. From the systematical analyses of this data conclusions are drawn regarding effectiveness, costs, user experiences etc.
• In a cluster of projects including CASSANDRA and iCargo we develop trade-logistic concepts based on datasharing.
• We organize logistic co-operations between companies in different phases, including cooperation strategies and visions, partner choice, design, logistic concepts and evaluation.
• Development and application of freight transport models for answering policy questions regarding freight transport and logistics of the European Commission, national governments, port authorities and infrastructure administration bodies.