Are bigger and longer trucks part of the answer to Europe’s mobility crisis, or will they just aggravate a disease that can be cured only by modal shift?
Early this year Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh released a study which indicated that the introduction of 44-tonne HGVs on British roads had cut journeys and pollution by one third more than even the most optimistic forecast when they first appeared in 2001....
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