Articles about the HVTT12 symposium:
- Nordic Road Association (Nordiskt Vägforum, NVF): HVTT12 will be held in Stockholm 16-19 September 2012
- Swedish Association of Road Transport Companies: Stockholm will be host for global conference on Transports with Heavy Goods Vehicles (article in Swedish)
Sample articles and videos within the HVTT12 topics:
- Swedish Transport Agency: Special regulation allows more efficient transports with 80 ton and 32.5 m trucks between Malmoe and Gothenburg: http://www.transportstyrelsen.se/Global/Regler/TSFS_svenska/2012/TSFS%202012_3.pdf (Regulations in Swedish)
- Vectura prepares a 30 km shortcut for the 78 – 90 ton Iron Ore Express: http://www.nsd.se/nyheter/artikel.aspx?ArticleId=6659862 (Article in Swedish)
- The Swedish Transport Administration, Vectura & Scania: The new 78 ton GVW Iron Ore Express has hit the road (Article in Swedish)
- Swedish Association of Road Transport Companies: Winter road maintenance must receive higher priority (Article in Swedish)
- Scania pressrelease: First Scania Euro 6 engines ready for the market
- Scania pressrelease: Securing the future of Swedish automotive industry with KTH
- Every second day, an HGV combination rolls over and crashes in Norway (TV-broadcast/Article in Norwegian)
- NTRC Inc: Trusted Truck – efficient roadside inspections and improved safety
- ACEA: 29 % growth in sales of heavy trucks (>16 t) in the EU during July 2011
- Volvo feature story: Larger and more powerful trucks – For the sake of environment
- Cooperating partners reduced truck-related CO2 by 177 000 ton (Article in Swedish)
- Volvo pressrelease: Volvo takes the lead in the heavyweight class
- Volvo pressrelease: Globally, Volvo Trucks’ deliveries in January were 95% higher than in the corresponding month last year
- Scania feature story: Scania’s President and CEO: “Global transport needs will expand”
- Scania pressrelease: Scania calls for quicker transition to cleaner vehicles
- Swedish Association of Road Transport Companies pressrelease: Fewer collisions with heavy goods vehicles While all crashes was reduced by 11 %, crashes involving HGV was reduced by 33 % (Article in Swedish)
- Scania Group video on YouTube: Scania Driver Support
- Volvo Trucks video on YouTube: Goliat transports 144 tonnes of copper ore within the Aitik Mine
- The Swedish Transport Administration: The upcoming Stockholm bypass, world´s longest freeway in a tunnel system
- Preem Oil Co pressrelease: Reduce CO2 by 16 % with the new Evolution Diesel available at gas stations from 9th April 2011 (Article in Swedish)
- Nordic Road Association (Nordiskt Vägforum, NVF): +40 % vehicle crashes due to negatively banked outercurves on European Highway 4 (Article in Swedish)
- Vectura feature story: How Scania gains environmental benefits by laserscanning roads (Article in Swedish)
- KTH Transport Day 2011: An Experimental Study on the Fuel Reduction Potential of Heavy Duty Vehicle Platooning (Award winning poster)
- VIP publication: Detecting Heavy Vehicle Driver Sleepiness (A collaborative project between VTI & Scania)
- VicRoads video: Heavy Vehicle Rollover Prevention Program (Norwegian subtitles added by NLF and by IF Insurance Co)
- Prime Mover Magazine feature story: The future of road freight productivity
- Swedish Association of Road Transport Companies: EU-proposal on reducing vehicle dimensions will increase freight costs (Article in Swedish)