CollERS 1
Swedish-German Research Collaboration on Electric Road Systems (CollERS), 2018-2019
The overall goal of the CollERS I project was to increase the common knowledge around ERS by cooperation between Germany and Sweden, and to discuss potential long-term strategies for a successful transnational implementation of ERS in Europe.
The research collaboration “CollERS I” was carried out during the period 2018-2019 and consisted of core members from the Swedish Research and Innovation Platform for Electric Roads and the two national German research projects Roadmap OH-Lkw and StratON. Following partners and funding agencies was involved:
• German research partners
- Öko-Institut e.V.
- Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg (ifeu)
- Heilbronn University
• Swedish research partners
- RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
- Chalmers University of Technology
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
- Swedish Transport Administration
• Funding agencies
- German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
- Swedish Transport Administration
The CollERS I project resulted in six jointly written reports to be found in the publications section:
- Overview of ERS concepts and complementary technologies
- Business models, Ownership, and Financing Strategies: Implications of an introduction of electric road systems on markets and possible business models
- National and EU freight transport strategies: Status quo and perspectives and implications for the introduction of electric road systems (ERS)
- Standardisation of Electric Road Systems: Report from workshop at FIRM19
- Electricity supply to electric road systems: Impacts on the energy system and environment
- Real-world experiences of ERS: Best practices from demonstration projects in Sweden and Germany