Freight transport
Transport & Mobility Leuven did several studies on freight transport. This includes various strategies of increasing the efficiency of freight and commercial transport, taking into account environmental and safety constraints.
recent projects
| VIEWLS | Potential of biofuels for the EU |
| Evaluation Trans-Siberian railway | Business case for new Trans-Siberian railway corridor services |
| Rail Corridor F | Study exploiting the possibility of creating a rail freight corridor linking Belgium and Poland |
| Supply chains and traffic | The similarities between supply chains and traffic streams. |
| Transport forecasts Gent - Terneuzen | Transport forecasts for a new sea lock in Terneuzen |
| Longer and heavier vehicles | Effects of adapting the rules on weight and dimensions of heavy commercial vehicles as established within Directive 96/53/EC |
| World Container Model (WCM) | The worldwide container model in brief |
| REORIENT | Effects of European railway policy on transport of goods |
| Short Sea Shipping | Short Sea Shipping as an alternative for road transport over long distances |
| Effects of a driving restriction for heavy goods vehicles on Sunday in the Walloon region | Study of the economic, environmental and traffic effects in the Walloon region of a driving restriction for heavy goods vehicles on Sunday |
| Network statements | Best practice guide for railway network statements |
| ETISplus | European Transport policy Information System: development and implementation of a data collection methodology for EU transport modelling |
| Learning logistics | Analysis of the learning abilities in logistic clusters. |
| Iron Rhine | Belgium wants to reactivate the Iron Rhine (railway line for freight transport between Antwerp - Weert - Roermond - Duisburg) that has been out of service for a while |
| External costs of maritime transport | Evaluation of the consequences of the revised MARPOL Annex VI in 2015 |
| ETS Flemish ports | The implementation of international transport in the European emission trading scheme: 'completing modalities from the perspective of Flemish ports' |
| IceWin | Economic effects of oil transport interruptions from Russia to Europe via the Baltic Sea |
| LGV in the road transport market | Light Goods Vehicles in the Road Transport Market of the European Union |
| The implementation of kilometer charging and a vignette in Belgium | Kilometer charging for trucks and an electric road vignette for light vehicles in the Flemish, Brussels, and Walloon Region |
| Competitiveness of Short Sea Shipping | Analysis of the competitiveness of European Short Sea Shipping compared to road and rail transport |
| Cost benefit analysis corridor 22 | Study of the completion of the Priority Project No. 22 |
| EMMOSS model | Flemish emission model for inland shipping, maritime transport and rail |
| Emissions of inland waterways | Local measures to reduce emissions of inland waterways |
| Distrivaart | Feasibility study of transport of pallets with inland shipping in Belgium |
| Collaborative networks | Analysis of the demand for collaborative networks among logistic providers |
| Arbitration | Advise to the international arbitrage case "Iron Rhine" between The Netherlands and Belgium. Impact of the Iron Rhine on energy consumption and emissions of freight transport. |
| COBALT | Internalisation of external costs on transport corridors |
| Maritime emission control areas | The provision of quantitative input for the assessment of additional SECAs and NECAs |