This report is the conclusion of BEST – BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport, a four-year project to demonstrate the use of bioethanol in cars and buses. The project included ten sites
– BioFuel Region (SE), Brandenburg (DE), Somerset (UK), Rotterdam (NL), the Basque Country
and Madrid (ES), La Spezia (IT), Nanyang (China) and São Paolo (Brazil) – and was coordinated
by the City of Stockholm (SE). Imperial College London was the evaluator and also led work on sustainability issues. BEST was part of the Alternative Motor Fuel programme within the Sixth Framework Programme, and co-funded by the European Union.