ACTUATE - Advanced Training and Education for Safe Eco-driving of Clean Vehicles
The EU funded ACTUATE project (May 2012 – January 2015), which had the aim to optimize driving performance for reduced energy consumption of new and innovative clean vehicles, has now finished. This website will stay operational and you can download a range of training materials, guidelines, promotional campaign elements and informative material about “Advanced Training and Education for Safe Eco-driving of Clean Vehicles” in the “Outputs” section. There you’ll also find the lessons learnt and final brochures!
All these outputs and results of the project shall help public transport providers to train their own drivers in safe eco-driving of clean vehicles in a tried and tested manner.
For general information on the project and/or questions about ACTUATE, please contact the project coordinator via the “Contact” section.
Latest News
27.05.2015Lessons Learnt Broschure
The aim of ACTUATE was to develop, test and implement advanced driver training and education concepts for safe eco-driving in the public transport sector. As previously existing eco-driving initiatives had mainly focused on diesel vehicles,there was a real void to fill by supporting the introduction of safe eco-driving trainings for clean vehicles, i.e. trams, trolleybuses and hybrid buses. In...[more]
04.05.2015Mannschaft aus Rotterdam gewinnt Tram-EM
Wien: Das Team aus Rotterdam ist neuer Europameister im Straßenbahnfahren. In einem spannenden Bewerb in der Hauptwerkstätte der Wiener Linien setzten sich die Niederländer gegen 22 andere Mannschaften durch. Das Team der Wiener Linien belegte bei der 4. Tram-EM sensationell den zweiten Platz. Insgesamt kamen 15.000 BesucherInnen, um die Leistungen der FahrerInnen bei der Tram-EM zu bewundern und...[more]
17.03.2015 Dear clean vehicle community!
The ACTUATE project ended in January 2015 and the training programmes were tested with more than 1.500 drivers at the public transport operators in Salzburg (Austria, trolleybus), Leipzig (Germany, tram and hybrid bus), Eberswalde (Germany, trolleybus), Parma (Italy, trolleybus) and Brno (Czech Republic, tram and trolleybus). And results of the ACTUATE trainings show that safe eco-driving has the...[more]
05.02.2015Parma transfers eco-driving know-how to Milano, Genova and Romagna
On 20 January 2015, TEP hosted a “train the trainers” workshop in Parma. Primary participants were operations managers from the other Italian public transport companies ATM Milano, AMT Genova and START Romagna. As has become the norm with all of these ACTUATE workshops around Europe, the program featured both theoretical and practical parts, including an extended eco-driving session on one of...[more]
31.01.2015Solaris participates in Salzburg AG led training session in Gdynia
In late January, Salzburg AG hosted a "train the trainers" workshop on eco-driving in Gdynia, Poland. Representatives and operations managers from the three Polish trolleybus networks in Gydnia, Tychy and Lublin attended, as did an engineer from the bus manufacturer Solaris in Poznan. For the workshop leader from Salzburg AG, the key mission was to provide the Polish colleagues with...[more]
29.01.2015Successful training and know-how transfer workshops in Leipzig
The 3rd eco-driving workshop in Leipzig consisted of both a theoretical and a practical component and was dedicated to measuring the concrete energy savings at one of the local substations. These measurements yielded very precise data and startling new insights! It has now been proven that through the use of eco-driving techniques on the city’s electric trams, 1 kWh per kilometer can be saved in...[more]
20.01.2015Final ACTUATE partner meeting and public conference held in Brussels
The final partner meeting and conference of the ACTUATE project (Advanced Training and Education for Safe Eco-driving of Clean Vehicles) took place on December 11 /12 2014 in Brussels. About 30 stakeholders from public transport companies and associations, educational organisations and clean vehicle industry attended the conference on Friday December 12 to hear about the outcomes of the project...[more]
