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LIFE GySTRA Final Conference summary.
To celebrate the end of LIFE GySTRA project, the project has organised a final online event as a clause to its three years of work. The conference took place last June 28. More than 35 people from all round Europe registered to the event. The event started with an...
LIFE GySTRA project, about sustainable mobility, organizes its latest workshop to show its achievements
LIFE GySTRA project, coordinated by CARTIF, comes to an end and celebrates a final online event as a clause to its three years of work. The conference will take place on June 28 and will review all the progress achieved. With the aim of reducing emissions from road...
Monitoring campaign begins in Alcobendas
The LIFE GySTRA project faces the final stretch of the project by carrying out a demonstration in collaboration with the municipality of Alcobendas and MásMovil. OPUS RSE device will be located in the central district and at exits 16 and 17 of the A1. The City Council...
LIFE GySTRA Events in March 2021
Forthcoming events for LIFE GySTRA CHISA 2021: International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering - Sustainable mobility model based on empirical data to manage traffic emissions. March,16Scottish Air Quality Seminar: "Real World Emissions. Monitoring and...
LIFE GySTRA present at INNOVACARRTERA 2020
The 6th edition of INNOVACARRETERA will be held on 11 and 12 November. INNOVACARRETERA is the road infrastructure sector´s technological demonstration fair, where new developments in the sector will be shown. This year INNOVACARRETERA will be held virtually. The...
The DGT evaluates changing the environmental labels of hybrid vehicles thanks to the LIFE GySTRA project
The LIFE GySTRA project has concluded in a study that there are importante discrepancies between the theoretical emissions that a vehicle should have according to its environmental label and the emissions it actually has, which could make the General Directorate of...
LIFE GySTRA at LIFE Malopolska workshop
Representatives of the project have been on February 24 and 25 in Wielizcka in the air quality workshop. In this enclave, known for its impressive salt mines, the main results of the LIFE GySTRA project have been presented. There we have interacted with other projects...
Upcoming events – LIFE IP Malopolska and TRA 2020
LIFE GySTRA project is on his last year of execution, we have a lots of results and experiences to share during 2020. During the next months LIFE GySTRA project will take part on two events related with transport: LIFE Malopolska. This event will take place in...
LIFE GySTRA will measure actual motorcycle emissions at Pingüinos 2020
The European project LIFE GySTRA, coordinated by the CARTIF Technology Center, will measure the real emisisons of the motorcycles that participate in this edition of the traditional Pingüinos biker concentration, which wil take place in Valladolid, in the Antigua...
Valladolid City Council and LIFE GySTRA join forces to measure emissions in Pingüinos 2020
Valladolid City Council supports the LIFE GySTRA project from the beginning. Representatives of the project held a meeting with the Environment Department of the City Council on December 18. CARTIF members presented the objectives of the project, the actions carried...
LIFE GySTRA at EU Clean Air Forum
The second European Air Quality Forum, organised by the European Commission, was held in Bratislava on 28 and 29 November. The LIFE programme has invited the LIFE GySTRA project to participate with informative material. During the event, a video about the project was...
LIFE GySTRA at COP25
Next week begins the celebration of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP25) in Madrid; a unique opportunity to show the world Madrid´s commitment to the climate and air quality. Before the Congress, the Madrid City Council is organizing different...
LIFE GySTRA at ECOMONDO 2019
The Italian city of Rimini hosts this fair. Ecomondo is the leading circular economy expo in Europe, bringing together all sectors in a single platform: from material and energy recovery to sustainable development. The event gathers over 100,000 delegates around a...
Bulgaria´s demosntration steps forward
A few months ago, the measurement campaign began in the Bulgarian capital. An RSD+ has been installed to monitor the entire bus fleet. The most polluting vehicles are being repaired. The first results show that, as with passenger cars, the vast majority of buses...
LIFE GySTRA at Innovacarretera 2019
On October 31, LIFE GySTRA will be present at Innovacarretera 2019. Every two years the Spanish Technological Platform of the Road organises Innovacarretera. This event shows technological innovations of the sector with the special feature of giving practical...
LIFE GySTRA at ECOMONDO
On November 7th LIFE GySTRA will be present at Ecomondo, Rimini, by the hand of EASME.Ecomondo is the leading event in Europe for new models of circular economy. We participate in Session 1- Supporting actions to promote Sustainable Mobility. We will share session...
LIFE GySTRA at the 1st Sabadell Air Quality Congress
On October 24, LIFE GySTRA will be present at the 1st Sabadell Air Quality Congress. There, Javier Buhigas, OPUS RSE, will present the progress of the project to date, including the first results of the demonstrations in Madrid and Sofia and the potential of RSD+...
Remote Sensing to upgrade European Low emissions zones such as “Madrid Central”
On june 28th 2019, an event on traffic emissions and Low Emissions Zones in Europe held at the headquarters of the Representation of European Commission in Madrid. The EC reaffirmed their support on Remote Snesing Technology. Maj-Britt Larka Abellán, General...
LIFE GySTRA project organises the II event “Car Exhaust and environmental policies”
The LIFE GySTRA project, financed by the European Union, seeks to create a new sustainable mobility policy based on empirical information on road traffic emissions. Vehicles are measured in real-driving conditions with Remote Sensing Devices. Remote Sensing technology...
Second monitoring meeting held
On April 8th, the LIFE GySTRA consortium held its second monitoring meeting. OPUS RSE hosted this meeting. Representatives of all partners attended the meeting together with the project monitor, Raquel Navarrete. The meeting explained in detail action by action the...
LIFE GySTRA at the XIX Spanish Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
On April 3rd Dolores Hidalgo (CARTIF) and Javier Buhigas (OPUS RSE) participated in Madrid in the ITS Congress. During the event, the ITS awards ceremony took place. LIFE GySTRA was awarded in the ITS and environment category. The representatives of the project...
LIFE GySTRA awarded with the ITS and Environment Prize
The XIX Spanish Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) will take place in Madrid from April 1st to 3rd of 2019. The Association will award the ITS prizes. The ITS awards are granted annually by ITS Spain to individuals, entities or projects chosen by the jury...
Zero emission cities: exchange of best-practices between EU cities and regions
On February 26th and 27th, the conference "Zero emission cities: exchange of best practices between EU cities and regions" took place in Brussels, which included a session on Remote Sensing. Javier Buhigas (PPUS RSE)assisted as a speaker explaining the operations of...
LIFE GySTRA at school…again
Representatives of the LIFE GySTRA project spent a wonderful afternoon with children from Pre-school Education and Primary Education learning how vehicles pollutes the cities and how to avoid it to have a clean air in order not to have to wear a mask on the street. We...
Next events 12th,13th and 14th of December
This week, Javier Buhigas, from OPUS RSE will take part in 3 events where he will speak about the progress on LIFE GySTRA project and the potential of Remote Sensing Devices. Wednesday, 12th, Madrid: Jornada sobre alternativas energéticas para un transporte y una...
LIFE GySTRA at EUROCITIES Environment Forum
The EUROCITIES Environment Forum takes place in Tampere, Finland on October, 17th - 19th. The forum aims to improve understanding of the links between air pollution, climate change, and public health, exploring different scenarios for the designing of integrated...
LIFE GySTRA,example of improvement of air quality following European objectives
The LIFE GySTRA porject, led by CARTIF, has celebrated the event "Car Exhaust and environmental policies: the potential of remote sensing2 with the aim of explaining what its objectives are and discussing the working of the technology used, which will allow a solution...
LIFE GySTRA project organises the event “Car Exhaust and environmental policies: the potential of remote sensing”
Next May 3rd, LIFE GySTRA project organises an event in Madrid with the main objective of publishing the actions which are being carried out in the framework of this European project and, thus, backing the efforts of European Union to improve the air quality in...
Engine websites echo the LIFE GySTRA project
The LIFE GySTRA project is awakening great interest among the digital press media dedicated to the engine. Motorpasion, SoyMotor, OmniAuto, El Español, SoyMotero, Solomoto, AutoBild, Tecnocarreteras, EntretenimientoBit, Motor.atresmedia, Autopista, Forocoches,...
Reached a political agreement for safer and cleaner cars
Last December 7th, the EU co-legislators (European Parliament, the Council and the Commission) have reached an agreement on the Commission proposal from Jnauary 2016 to increase checks of cars that are already on the EU market and strengthen the voerall system with...
GySTRA kids learn how not to pollute
Yesterday, December 4, representatives of the LIFE GySTRA project spent a wonderful afternoon with children from Pre-school Education and Primary Education learning how not to pollute our cities to have a clean air in order no to have war a mask on the street, as it...
Representatives of LIFE GySTRA attend “The Future of cars in Spain”
Representatives of LIFE GySTRA project take part in the conference "The future of cars in Spain" organized by Transport & Environment at the Congress of Deputies in Madrid (Spain). Representatives of the European Commission, KPMG, ANFAC, SERNAUTO, Iberdrola,...
LIFE GySTRA project presented in INNOVACARRETERA 2017
The Spanish Road Technology Platform celebrates the fourth Technological Demonstration Fair of the Road Infrastructure Sector: INNOVACARRETERA 2017. Many companies of the sector have been gathered together in this meeting in order to present their technological...
“El Mundo” newspaper publishes a special report on the LIFE GySTRA
The newspaper "El Mundo" dedicates today its special supplement Innovators in Castilla y León to the LIFE GySTRA project. The article, signed by Estibaliz Lera, highlights the interest of the project team in involving the population in a positive way to achieve an...
Brussels welcomes the new LIFE 2016 projects
Representatives of all the LIFE projects approved in the 2016 call have been gathered togheter in Brussels for the kick-off meeting of these new projects. The LIFE GySTRA, coordinated by CARTIF, was presented at the Air and Health session. This project has two goals...
LIFE GySTRA Kick-of meeting
Today, the kick-off meeting of the LIFE GySTRA project took place in Madrid, under the presence of the whole consortium, composed of CARTIF, OPUS RSE, CIEMAT, DGT and the Sofia City Council. This project purposes the implementation of a new...
The air quality, under discussion in Barcelona
LIFE GySTRA project takes part in Barcelona in the international LIFE Platform Meeting on Air Quality: abating urban exposure to air pollutants took place in Barcelona, an event organized by LIFE AIRUSE (Testing and Develpment of air quality mitigation...
The European Parliament hosts a conference on RSD
After the "Dieselgate" scandal, the Plenary of the European Parliament called, in their respective recommendations to national legislators and member states, to "establish remote monitoring systems for the fleet" and "the creation of a large-scale remote sensing...