Rene van Gijlswijk

TNO | tno · Expertise Group of Sustainable Transport and Logistics

The European Union has intensified efforts to reduce CO 2 emissions from the transport sector, with the target of reducing tailpipe CO 2 emissions from light-duty vehicle new registrations by 55% by 2030 and achieving zero emissions by 2035 according to the "Fit for 55" package. To promote fuel and energy consumption awareness among users under rea...

Pollutant emissions have been a topic of interest in the last decades. Not only environmentalists but also governments are taking rapid action to reduce emissions. As one of the main contributors, the transport sector is being subjected to strict scrutiny to ensure it complies with the short and long-term regulations. The measures imposed by govern...

Pollutant emissions have been a topic of interest in the last decades. Not only environmentalists but also governments are taking rapid action to reduce emissions. As one of the main contributors, the transport sector is being subjected to strict scrutiny to ensure it complies with the short and long-term regulations. The measures imposed by the go...

Real world fuel consumption and tailpipe CO2 emission of passenger cars and vans in the Netherlands. Real world electricity consumption of electric passenger cars in the Netherlands. First insights in WLTP-to-real world gap.

Carbon Footprinting (CF) is an important tool for reduction of CO2 and other Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from freight transport and logistics. A properly implemented CF procedure provides for visibility of GHG emissions in supply and logistics chains, thus creating opportunities to understand emission reduction potentials and implement emission...

In this report, we elaborate on each of these factors to support PBL in their task to evaluate the effect of the National Climate- and Energy Agreement. Much attention in the Climate agreement negotiations goes to the sales of new vehicles and the fraction of electric vehicles in the total sales. These two elements are not enough to estimate the fl...

In the present report tank pass data, as obtained from Travelcard Nederland BV, has been analysed. The data cover the period of 2004 up to April 2017 inclusive, and include a total number of 443,000 vehicles. A large spread can be observed in the annual mileages and vehicle models, which means that the database does not only contain stereotypical b...

Upon request of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water management, TNO has reviewed all its previously performed laboratory and on-road emission measurements on passenger cars and vans from Mercedes Benz to check for possible indications of two types of defeat devices:-one that switches off emission reduction systems after 26 km of driving,...

Portland cement production is an energy-intensive process responsible for a significant share of the total CO2 production. Its replacement with low carbon binders from by-products of industrial processes is a sustainable alternative for innovative construction materials. In addition, the combination of low carbon binders with recycled aggregates re...

The use of secondary materials instead of primary raw materials in concrete is a way to decrease its environmental impact. On the one hand it gives a high grade use to the secondary material, thereby avoiding disposal. On the other hand, the production of concrete no longer involves preparation and/or mining of primary raw materials. This way, conc...

The goal of the LUFT 2030 project was to develop updated emission scenarios for the pollutants NOx, SO2, NMVOC, NH3, PM10 and PM2,5 up to 2030 and, on this basis, to calculate air quality scenarios for fine particulate matter and NO2. The results of “Policy Scenarios for Climate Protection VI” (Oeko-Institut 2013), conducted on behalf of the German...

The focus of this research is to develop a first assessment of the impacts of the implementation of CO2 capture technologies in the Dutch power sector on the transboundary air pollution (SO2,NOX,NH3,NMV OC,PM10 and PM2.5) levels in 2020. Results show that for the power sector SO2 emissions will be very low for scenarios that include large scale imp...

This study has been performed for the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency / Milieu- en Natuurplanbureau (contact: Pieter Hammingh) within the framework of Beleidsgericht Onderzoeksprogramma Lucht en Klimaat (BOLK) 2008-2009 for the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment (VROM, contact Jan Wijmenga). The report concerns...

Weighting of environmental impacts is necessary to arrive at a single environmental indicator. One of the methods to weigh impacts, which has been operationalised for a number of impact categories in the Netherlands, is known as the shadow price method, using the highest acceptable costs for mitigation measures as a weighting factor. Up to now, no...

Weighting of environmental impacts is necessary to arrive at a single environmental indicator. One of the methods to weigh impacts, which has been operationalised for a number of impact categories in the Netherlands, is known as the shadow price method, using the highest acceptable costs for mitigation measures as a weighting factor. Up to now, no...

This is the first EPER Review report, as requested by Article 3.3 from the Decision 2000/479/EC on the implementation of a European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER) according to Article 15(3) of the EU Directive 96/61/EC on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC). The report is dealing with two review aspects for the first data deliver...

Determining uncertainties in the national emissions inventory in the Netherlands

In order to enlarge the insight of the behaviour of heavy metals during the processing of end-of-life electronic products more assessment analyses should be made. The aim is to improve the control and management of heavy metal loops during the end-of-life treatment of these products. Four relevant end-of-life options are simulated by modelling and,...