Tag: Truck
Autonomous trucks: the future of goods transportation
Deutsche Bahn and MAN want to test autonomously driving trucks at the Ulm terminal from September.
Attention: Driving bans active in North and South Tyrol
In order to reduce truck congestion and evasive traffic on public holidays and during the summer season, driving bans will be applied on both sides of the Brenner Pass. The Tyrolean environmental zone will also remain in force.
France: Best environmental badge now also possible for trucks
US postal trucks will have internal combustion engines for years to come. Because of environmental concerns, 15 states are now suing the new USPS fleet.
Speed limit and car-free Sundays
50,000 signatures were needed, 58,000 actually turned out: the federal government was presented with a petition calling for a speed limit, car-free Sundays and a ban on domestic flights.
Next rip-off: new car and truck tolls
The calculation is very simple: if more and more combustion cars are taken out of circulation and more and more drivers switch to electric vehicles, the tax revenues collected from the sale of mineral oil will decrease. By 2030, these revenues will even fall by around 50 percent compared to 2020. In concrete figures: Revenues will drop by 13 billion euros.
Mannheim car-free as of today!
Mannheim is banning cars from the city centre, but only on a trial basis for the time being. More space is to be created for pedestrians and cyclists and the city is to be freed from noise and exhaust fumes.
New truck driving bans in Tyrol
Due to adverse weather conditions, new rules have been in force on the motorways in Tyrol since Saturday, 5 February 2022. All trucks with a total weight of more than 7.5 tonnes are affected.
Brenner Pass: High costs for old vehicles
The governor of South Tyrol has submitted a concept to the government in Rome that is intended to re-regulate transit traffic over the Brenner Pass. The digital system is supposed to make traffic more environmentally friendly and the air cleaner.
Low emission zones & driving bans: What will change in 2022?
Originally, a whole series of new rules and driving restrictions were to come into force in the year that is coming to an end. But the unpredictable pandemic led many municipalities and conurbations to postpone the introduction of an environmental zone or to abandon it altogether because pollution levels had improved. The latter may be directly related to the decreased traffic during the curfews. Nevertheless, we at Green-Zones® show where things are still happening and who will be affected by future driving bans in 2022.
Czech Low Emission Zone explained
The only low emission zone in the Czech Republic is in Prague. More precisely, there are two zones in the city.