Greening and safety assurance of future modular road vehicles

Recent megatrends can be distinguished which have a strong impact on logistic and transport concepts. Such megatrends are typically related to climate change, growing transport demand, urbanisation and scarcity of resources. The resulting logistic and transport concepts are intermodal transport, European Modular System (EMS) and hub & spoke systems (HS 2. Meeting the (future) needs of logistic companies in terms of flexibility, efficiency and TCO (total cost of ownership); 3. Based on existing modules to facilitate intermodality (rail-road-water-air); 4. Possible usage across Europe for cross-border long-distance road transport; 5. Compatibility with the existing infrastructure; 6. Designed/evaluated by using performance-based standards.