Projects
Together with you who work within a city, a region, academia, institutes and business, we at CLOSER want to create new innovations, collaborations, and projects. We develop a freight transport system that makes it possible to live in the city or at countryside on human terms.
Based on the challenges that exist in today's society, we start and run projects together with our partners in the fields City logistics, Energy supply, Long haul transports and Digitalized logistics.
What do we do within CLOSER?
Here you can read about the projects we are part of or have been a part of. Do you want to know more about the projects, get in touch with a participating party or get involved in a project? Do not hesitate to contact us!
REEL
Together we electrify Sweden's truck transports!
Blue Supply Chains
Shipping is facing major challenges to reduce the need for fossil fuels. The transition that we see in other industries, and especially for road transport, also needs to take place in the maritime...
HITS
The project's shared vision is to create the conditions for a sustainable transport system in the city, as well as to disseminate and scale up these for an accelerated transition. Sustainability is...
Projects
ELMAS – Electrified and Efficient Mass Transportation in Cities
The objective of ELMAS is to implement and evaluate the potential of High Capacity Transport (HCT) solutions within urban environments. The project focuses on enhancing energy and transport efficiency...
POTUS – Understanding Potentials of the Urban Freight Sector for the 15-Minute-City
When the basic services are accessible within 15 minutes in a neighbourhood, the freight traffic also shifts to these areas. The POTUS project aims to integrate urban freight into 15-minute City...
SUCOLOS – Sustainably Connected Transport and Logistics
The SUCOLOS project brings together partners from Sweden, Norway, and Finland to reduce the environmental impact of freight transport through collaboration and smarter logistics. To minimize empty...
H2Derivatives@BSP
The H2Derivatives@BSP project helps the maritime sector in the Baltic Sea region shift to low- and zero-carbon fuels by supporting the development and use of renewable hydrogen-based alternatives like...
Cargo Express
The Cargo Express project explores how we can re-design maritime transport services together, making them an attractive choice for transport professionals.
DHEELS
DHEELS seeks to design and assess energy-efficient logistics systems utilizing high-capacity truck-train configurations powered by fossil-free energy sources. The project will explore various...
Heading for Emission-Free City Centre by 2030
The project name STOLT stands for Stockholm Local Transitions and is a collaborative initiative involving businesses, academia, and civil society working towards the city's goal of an emission-free...
DISCO - Transforming urban logistics
The DISCO project aims at fast-tracking upscaling to a new generation of urban logistics and smart urban planning. This will enable transition to decarbonized and digital cities by delivering...
SHORTS - Safe, Sustainable and Resilient Transport Systems
As the electrification of public transport and freight transport increases, resilient solutions must be built that guarantee the availability and reliability of these socially important functions. To...
REDIG system demonstration
The project aims to develop and demonstrate a fossil-free, efficient logistics solution as well as the ecosystem (collaboration, regulations, infrastructure) required to succeed in the transition to...
HasT – Speed-controlled traffic zone in urban environments
The purpose of the HasT project is to, for the first time, carry out a large-scale system demonstration in a city center where various modes of transportation are speed-controlled through digital...
SELECT
The SELECT project gathered local and regional authorities together with business support organizations from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. The partners worked to explore...
TREE: Transition to efficient electrified forestry transport
TREE addresses the societal challenge of effectively transitioning to electrified heavy road transportation. It focuses on the forestry sector, which constitutes 20% of Sweden's heavy road...
Local Energysystems for Electrified Logistic Applications (LEELA)
Project Leela has resulted in a greater understanding of how the energy supply for electric heavy-duty vehicles can be ensured at various logistics sites, as the deployment of these vehicles has...
HCT Duo Demo
The HCT Duo Demo project explored the potential of using longer lorries (HCT vehicles) for more efficient freight transport. By testing 30-metre-long vehicles on the Hallsberg-Örebro route, the...
Electric trucks and Intermodality
Preparing for large-scale implementation and operation of electric trucks within connected transports in intermodal logistics chains.
Fuel surcharge for electrified heavy-duty truck transports
In the project, four new types of transport series (for each of four geographical electricity areas) using electricity as fuel for heavy transportation, as well as a method for indexing these forward...
Pre study - introduction of a zero emission zone in the city
The city of Stockholm has a goal of an emission-free inner city by the year 2030. In order to achieve this goal the city has chosen to use a zero emission zone as a tool to improve air quality in an...
REDIG preliminary study
REDIG - Regional Freight Hubs in Gothenburg are part of the Green City Zone and is a preliminary study for how the collective loading of goods can be carried out sustainably, commercially and with an...
HITS
The project's shared vision is to create the conditions for a sustainable transport system in the city, as well as to disseminate and scale up these for an accelerated transition. Sustainability is...
Accelerate the electrification of forestry transport
Forestry transport accounts for a significant part of our emissions and is a challenging area to electrify. The aim of the Accelerate the Electrification of Forestry Transport project is to contribute...
AI Enhanced Mobility
AI Enhanced Mobility was a collaborative project where we collectively built knowledge, experience, and new collaborations within AI application for the sustainable mobility system of the future. The...
Blue Supply Chains
Shipping is facing major challenges to reduce the need for fossil fuels. The transition that we see in other industries, and especially for road transport, also needs to take place in the maritime...
MIMIC – Aiming for sustainble construction logistics
MIMIC worked with stakeholder dialogue, logistics optimization and Smart governance to facilitate and support logistics to, from and on urban construction sites to improve mobility and reduce...
REEL
Together we electrify Sweden's truck transports!
Shift2Rail
Shift2Rail is the first European rail initiative to seek focused research and innovation (R&I) and market-driven solutions by accelerating the integration of new and advanced technologies into...
Combine
The COMBINE project aimed to enhance the share of combined transport (CT) in the Baltic Sea Region to make transport more efficient and environmentally friendly. The project has gained a lot of...
DenCity
DenCity is a collaboration between parties from academia, society and business. Together, we have developed and tested solutions for sustainable personal and freight mobility. Here we present our...
Swiftly Green
SWIFTLY Green was a European project that aimed to develop a toolbox for green corridors. The toolbox consists of guidelines, tools and recommendations for greener logistics and transport.
Safe hydrogen installation
The project safe hydrogen installation is a feasibility study where we investigate areas and barriers that surround the installation and operation of ships powered by hydrogen and fuel cells. The goal...
High Capacity Transport (HCT)
An increased use of HCT vehicles would increase energy efficiency and thereby reduce CO2 emissions and increase the capacity of the infrastructure system. CLOSER is responsible for an R&D program...
e-COMSTRAT
The objective of e-COMSTRAT is to provide new knowledge about how municipalities can achieve an improved urban environment through access to delivery data. By taking part in delivery data, e-COMSTRAT...
Logistics Data Lab
Organizations that affect or are affected by transport and logistics activities, can apply to the Logistics Data Lab. In the data lab, there is the opportunity to work together with data-driven...
IMPACT-2
IMPACT-2 is an innovation project within Shift2Rail that continues the work on evaluation methods from IMPACT-1 with the aim of initiating the standardisation of the technologies that are continuously...
FR8RAIL IV
FR8RAIL IV is a project that forms part of Shift2Rail and aims to further develop technologies that are relevant to the rail industry. The objective of the project is to contribute to the overarching...
FR8RAIL II
FR8RAIL II is a project within Shift2rail with the main purpose of developing functional requirements for increased performance and intelligence in, for example, the fleet and surrounding processes...
FR8HUB
For the first time, a comprehensive European grasp of the railways is being taken through the Shift2Rail initiative. Nearly SEK 9 billion is being invested from the EU and the industry for the purpose...
FEDeRATED
FEDeRATED is an open data-sharing infrastructure for smooth, safe and sustainable freight transport and logistics in Europe and its trading partner countries.
NordicWay 2
This project contributes to the development and harmonisation of C-ITS services, where cloud-to-cloud communication will contribute to a more efficient and secure transport system. NordicWay 2 will...
SCALE
The SCALE project – Scandinavian road logistics electrified – is making use of a previously established network of players and organisations to identify common requirements and share knowledge about...
ASTER
E-commerce in Sweden is growing by the day. And we need to work together to make Swedish e-commerce more sustainable! A large number of organisations in Swedish commerce have now decided to...
FR8RAIL III
FR8RAIL III is an innovation project within Shift2Rail designed to further develop railway technologies to achieve the objectives highlighted in Shift2Rail’s strategic plan.
GeoSence
The GeoSence project (2021-2024) was the first of its kind to investigate the implementation of geofencing and its impact from a holistic perspective, all in close collaboration with researchers and...
AI Driven Mobility
The goal of the project was to create a network for organizations and individuals that can drive change in sustainable mobility, and increase knowledge and awareness of AI and its potential for the...
BoostLog
For more than two decades, the EU has invested in research and innovation through various framework programs, e.g. FP5 (1998-2002), FP6 (2002-2006), FP7 (2007-2013), and the ongoing Horizon 2020 (2014...
RRTCDM
Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) is a method to increase data exchange between actors in the transport chain, and thus achieve increased efficiency and reduced handling and transport costs. In the...
Smart urban traffic zones
In this project, Smart Urban Traffic Zone solutions were investigated and trialled to enable a more flexible use of urban spaces, achieve more efficient transport, and boost road safety.
Geofencing
Geofencing was a research and innovation program funded by the Swedish Transport Administration. We have gathered actors in society, business and academia and together we have produced material that...
Fossil Free Freight Challenge 2020
In order to accelerate the reduction of CO2 emissions from freight transports, there are several ongoing projects within the Triple F programme. The Fossil-Free Freight Challenge 2020 is one of them...
Western Sweden's arena for liquid biogas
Western Sweden's arena for liquid biogas has the objective of establishing and spreading knowledge about liquid biogas, LBG, as a fuel for heavy freight transport. The project will coordinate several...
Multi-modal information sharing
Logistics stakeholders face challenges as they endeavor to secure and improve supply chain efficiency. Lack of transparency and reliability are two such challenges that can lead to questions about...
Autolast
Automation is considered an important enabler for more efficient freight transport systems. This project addresses the issues surrounding a relatively unexplored aspect of freight transport systems...
Effective, sustained and connected logistics systems
Increased digitalization and connectivity in logistics, as well as the transition to renewable fuels for freight transportation, are the starting points for several feasibility studies now in progress...
Digitization of freight transport chains
In the spring of 2017, a new project started, which was coordinated by CLOSER with Lund University of Technology as technical project manager. The project was called Digitization of Freight Transport...
Automated logistics services
To create conditions for sustainable urban and regional development there needs to be efficient transportation to, from and within cities and regions. In order to increase efficiency in freight...
ELLOG
The transition to a transportation system based on renewable energy will likely mean that electric-powered trucks will be used, especially in urban areas. Electric-powered vehicles reduce or eliminate...
Feasibility studies for digitizing logistics chains
Using innovative digital technology, new conditions are being created to enhance the efficiency of the logistics and transport systems of the future. Innovations and effective business models are...
Biogas for heavy vehicles
The challenge of converting the freight transport sector to fossil-free energy will require more than one type of energy source. Electrification is one promising alternative for urban distribution in...
Get Greener
Get Greener is a project that builds on the results delivered within the two previous EU projects GreCOR and SWIFTLY Green. The Swedish Transport Administration, which is financing Get Greener, sees...
GreCOR
GreCOR was an Interreg IVB North Sea Region project that started the 1st of January 2012. GreCOR promoted the development of a co-modal transport corridor in the North Sea Region. Important in this...
Horizontal collaborations for increased transport effectiveness
The project 'Horizontal collaborations for increased transport effectiveness' was created to develop a knowledge base for the management of obstacles related to horizontal collaborations with respect...
Information sharing and traffic type cross-traffic management
Digitization of the freight transport system and the availability of data is a clear trend and driving factor to achieve increased transport efficiency. Through information sharing and traffic-type...
Multimodal information sharing
Over the spring and summer of 2018, the Multimodal Information Sharing Cooperation Project (MMID in Swedish) took the first steps toward creating conditions for a standardized information-sharing...
StationCDM
CDM is a way to facilitate collaboration between various participants within an ecosystem to make decisions that are better for all parties. With a common platform, all participants can exchange...
DUO2
DUO2 was an HCT project where we developed and conducted trials on the Gothenburg-Malmö / Helsingborg route via the E6 between Schenker's terminals in each city. The test combinations are “DUO-trailer...
ETT
The forest products industry faces the challenge of reducing carbon emissions without losing competitiveness. More energy-efficient road transport, featuring heavier and longer vehicles, is part of...
San Demo project
The San Demo project compiles information about all HCT trucks active in Sweden. The project manages and disseminates information about HCT vehicles to interested trucking companies and transport...
CIVIC
CIVIC was a project with the goal to improve mobility, liveability and road safety in the city with construction logistics. At this site, you can take part in the results and insights generated in the...
Who are we who work at CLOSER?
We are a dedicated team of experienced and knowledgeable professionals, driven by the goal of supporting you in developing tomorrow's solutions. Our core expertise lies in bringing together the right people and guiding you through the entire innovation process, from start to finish.
What are CLOSER and our partnership focusing on right now?
CLOSER is divided into four areas: City logistics, Energy supply, Digitized logistics and Long-distance transport. But as you immerse yourself, you will notice how CLOSER works across borders, and in the end everything has to do with each other in one way or another.
