by Walther Ploos van Amstel
Yesterday, the UK Department of Transport published the Government response to the consultation on driving license flexibility for 4.25t vehicles. The Government will: Remove the additional five-hour training requirement. Expand the rules to include all vehicle types (e.g., minibusses) Increase the towing allowance to align with petrol and diesel vehicles Align the eligibility with other …
IRU, FIA Region I, and ACEA unequivocally oppose splitting the B driving license for cars into two categories, as the European Parliament’s draft report on the EU Driving Licence Directive proposed. Earlier this year, the European Commission proposed the Road Safety Package to EU legislators, which included amendments to the current directive governing driving licenses …
Electric cargo bikes provide a cleaner, quicker solution for urban deliveries, but clearer regulations and banning fossil-fuelled vehicles are key to encouraging their uptake. These were conclusions of The Promise of Low-Carbon Freight report, which, using data from logistics operator Pedal Me, found that adopting cargo bikes not only reduced carbon emissions by 90%, compared with diesel …
Last-mile deliveries usually occur within urban areas where logistics operations increase congestion and emissions, as well as associated roadway-related health impacts. A new paper evaluates the role of incentives for zero and near-zero emission vehicle (ZEV) technologies in last-mile delivery operations. Specifically, the study investigates the total cost of ownership and life cycle environmental impacts associated with …
Service engineers install and repair charging stations and solar panels for sustainable energy but still drive around in diesel vans. In the Netherlands, service logistics is responsible for 25 to 35% of the kilometers driven by vans and for 10 to 15% of the CO2 emissions from road freight transport. So how do we achieve …
Businesses are recognizing that electrifying their light commercial vehicle fleets is not only a successful mechanism by which they can demonstrate their green ambitions, but is also, increasingly, a solid economic decision. The new IDTechEx forecast report “Electric, Hybrid & Fuel Cell Light Commercial Vehicles 2021-2041” provides a detailed twenty-year outlook for the uptake of electric …
Freight transport accounts for 8 to 15% of total traffic flow in urban areas within the European Union. The majority of these deliveries are undertaken by diesel-powered vehicles with disproportionate levels of CO2, NOx, and particulate matter emissions. Accordingly, a variety of strategic options have been advanced as key solutions for addressing fossil fuel demand …
A new paper by Varma and Combes from IFFSTTAR discusses the questions: is a transition to Autonomous, Connected, Electric and Shared (AECS) LCV’s in the context of city logistics feasible? The impact of new technologies, services (such as the rise of instant deliveries, and AECS, is currently uncertain, and should be assessed in the long term.
The large-scale diffusion of low-emission vehicles is required to increase the sustainability of the transport system. Statistics show strong and continued growth in the sales of electric and other low-emission vehicles in the passenger car market. The light commercial vehicles market, however, has thus far been a different story. A barrier to widespread adoption seems to be …
The light commercial vehicle, or delivery van, is the workhorse of both companies and the self-employed in the economy. And with good reason: it is a multifunctional and flexible mode of transport and compared to (smaller) trucks and cars it is also cheap to buy and use. Moreover, a ‘lighter’ drivers license B is sufficient to drive …