Participation to transnational programmes
Driving the environmental benefits of rail transport
In today’s increasingly urbanised world, creating sustainable conditions for urban mobility and inter-city travel is an important way of reducing CO2 emissions. Thales plays an important role by supplying transport operators with the systems they need to operate their infrastructures more efficiently while improving the service they provide to customers.
But also road transport…
Toll systems for trucks, like those introduced in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, help regulate road traffic flows and provide revenues for vital infrastructure upgrades. As a member of the Ecomouv consortium, Thales is deploying an Eucompliant heavy goods vehicle toll collection and control system in France.
And air transport
With air traffic volumes set to expand significantly in the coming years, there is an urgent need for the air transport sector to reduce its environmental footprint. Thales is part of the Clean Sky European research programme, a public-private partnership aimed at reducing CO2, nitric oxide and noise emissions of aircraft by 40%, 60% and 50% respectively between now and 2020.
Monitoring the climate
As the global climatological and environmental crisis continues to unfold, with inevitable effects on the planet and on human life, the industrial and scientific community is mobilising to provide solutions. Thales is a key player in space-based Earth observation programmes
Innovating for the development of green technologies
Science and innovation play a key role in Thales’s activities. With a global network of reseaach laboratories and a total of 22,500 staff working in R&D, the Group applies its expertise to environmental issues by participating to a range of national and transnational programmes.
For several years, for example, Thales has been conducting research and development on a new semi conducting material, gallium nitride (GaN). This material’s unique properties can help reduce the environmental impact of electrical and electronic equipment compared with the materials and technologies in use today.