ENJOY Joint Venture Riga-Bremen
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Traffic Sign Register Bremen
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Truck Routing System Bremen
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Clean Air Plan Bremen
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Traffic Information System Northern Germany
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Project management VIKING
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Evaluation CNG fleet
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History
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What is Transport Ecology ?
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The Büro für Verkehrsökologie (BVÖ) (= Institute for Transport Ecology) was founded in 1984 by Klaus Schäfer-Breede and Jan Tebbe in Bremen as a Gesellschaft Bürgerlichen Rechts. Since Jan Tebbe died in 1985, Klaus Schäfer-Breede has been the Institute's sole partner and manager.

The Institute's name was chosen following the "Arbeitskreis Verkehrsökologie" ('Work Group Transport Ecology'), which existed for a short period of time in Bremen in the late 70's. This was before the term 'Transport Ecology', used by the ecology movement in the 80's, was circulated in Germany. Certainly, it was also the Institute's committed, national appearance which contributed to the term's circulation and the matters connected to it. Today, there are people and teams in most of the cities who explicitly deal with questions of transport ecology. A first professorship for 'Transport Ecology' has been established at a German university.        

Finally, the increasing importance of transport ecology is also a reflex to the problems due to the unbowed development of motorisation, which are increasing everywhere and on all levels. That is why more than ever before, the Institute for Transport Ecology links its work closer to the acute demand of problem-oriented planning and consultation