The Sustainable Transport Unit (located in Ispra (Italy)
is a recent addition to the JRC’s Institute for Energy
and provides scientific support for the development,
implementation and monitoring of European policies in
the area of Transport. Emphasis is given to the
assessment of strategic transport technologies for all
modes of transport. The Unit, with a total of about 45
staff, is subdivided into the 2 Actions among which the
“Intelligent and Efficient Transport Systems”
INETRANS provides support to the Strategic Transport
Technologies Plan and to the sustainability
assessment of road and non-road transport modes.
The project is focused on studying the use of
alternative fuels in aviation from the well-to-wings
(WTW) perspective. In view of an expected increase in
air traffic, and the need to diversify fuel sources, the
study should look on the availability of bio-fuels in the
New Member States and potential Candidate
Countries. It will also have the goal to evaluate and
apply the existing road vehicle WtW methodology and
to assess the need to develop new methodologies or
models for an aviation WtW study.
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