Slide Invited Sessions

Monday 14 NOVEMBER

TIME: 17:00–18:30

Invited session 4: Facilitating the driver role for automated driving in Europe

Time: 17.00–18.30

Four EU H2020 projects discuss the current constraints of human drivers interacting with automated driving vehicles and propose solutions.

ORGANISER:

Peter Moertl, Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH

 

MODERATOR:

TBD

 

SPEAKERS:

Peter Moertl, Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH

Michiel Christoph, SWOV

Lila Gaitanidou, CERTH

Invited session 39: A snapshot to the traffic management of the future

Time: 17.00–18.30

The European Commission, together with the 4FRONT cluster of European funded projects (ORCHESTRA, TANGENT, DIT4TRAM, FRONTIER) and the HARMONY project, will examine the future of network and traffic management, and the ways it will shape cities. The session will explore how to tackle new technological, societal, operational, business and governance challenges and opportunities. The projects will jointly present further topics including System engineering architecture, Resilience, Trustworthiness, Data sharing, Governance, User behaviour and acceptance, multimodality, upscaling etc. to implement the network and traffic management of the future.

ORGANISERS:

Fanny Breuil, EURECAT / FRONTIER

Runar Søråsen, ITS Norway / ORCHESTRA

Leire Serrano, DeustoTech/ TANGENT

Serge Hoogendoorn, Professor Smart Urban Mobility, TU Delft / DIT4TRAM

Maria Kamargianni, UCL UK / HARMONY

 

MODERATOR:

Thiago Tavares, CINEA

 

SPEAKERS:

Isabelle Vandoorne, DG MOVE

Akrivi Kiousi, FRONTIER and Netcompany Intrasoft

Runar Søråsen, ORCHESTRA/ITS Norway

Antonio Masegosa, TANGENT / DeustoTech

Leire Serrano, DeustoTech

Serge Hoogendoorn, Professor Smart Urban Mobility, TU Delft

Maria Kamargianni, UCL UK / HARMONY

Invited Session 50: User-centric and smart charging solutions for future-proof electromobility

Time: 17.00–18.30

Across Europe, there are many EV charging incentives provided to citizens to boost the uptake of electric mobility. The deployment of a network of publicly accessible charging points for electric vehicles, must also keep pace with these developments without becoming a barrier. The availability of an appropriate infrastructure is an important step, but a key objective is to make electric vehicle charging easy to use. During this session, a series of successful tools and solutions will be showcased, focusing on user-centric EV charging solutions (eCharge4Drivers, USER-CHI, INCIT-EV) and smart charging (SCALE).

ORGANISERS:

Angelos Amditis, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS)

 

MODERATOR:

Giannis Karaseitanidis, Technical Manager at ISENSE Group, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS)

 

SPEAKERS:

Evangelia Portouli, Senior Researcher at ICCS

María Tomás, Project Manager at ETRA

Miguel Zarzuela, EU Project Coordinator at CIRCE

Baerte de Brey, Chief International Officer, ElaadNL

Julia Hildermeier, Associate at RAP

Invited Session 41: Communicating transport research results beyond the research community: how to be effective? how to increase impact?

Time: 17.00–18.30

Transport is a topic of high interest around the world. From huge societal challenges such as its climate impact, inclusiveness or being the prerequisite for commerce to the individual mobility needs and preferences of each individuum, transport is omnipresent. While results and progress of transport research is widely shared among the research community, it seems like a lot of knowledge is lost when communicated to stakeholders, notably decision-makers, and to the public. In this session, reasons for this issue shall be discussed as well as possible strategies to improve the presentation and communication of results beyond the research community in view to increase the impacts of science and research results.

ORGANISERS:

Caroline Alméras, Secretary General, ECTRI, Belgium

Svenja Hainz, Transport representative at Brussels Offices, DLR, Germany

 

MODERATOR:

Neil Pedersen, Executive Director, TRB, United States

 

SPEAKERS:

Alasdair Cain, Director of Research, Development and Technology Coordination at US Department of Transportation (USDOT), United States

Stephen Perkins, Head of Research and Policy Analysis at the International Transport Forum, ITF-OECD

Ingrid Skogsmo, Senior Research Leader Future Transportation at VTI, Sweden & Vice-President at ECTRI, Belgium

Rosalinde Van der Vlies, Clean Planet Director, DG R&I, European Commission

Invited Session 18: Ensuring mobility equity and accessibility in rural Europe

Time: 17.00–18.30

This session aims to underline the mobility issues in the rural regions of the European Union. Many of the faced rural mobility issues and challenges are global. In rural areas, limited mobility and accessibility options dictate the everyday lives of rural area Europeans. The session involves relevant European projects (e.g. AURORAL) as well as speakers from the European Commission, regional representatives, and outside Europe. The results and outcomes of the session, that comprises keynote presentations and a short panel, will be reported by AURORAL project in the form of session report.

ORGANISERS:

Pekka Leviäkangas, Professor, University of Oulu

Kamila Olchowicz, Project Developer, IRRADIARE in Lisbon

 

MODERATORS:

Asbjørn Hovstø, Managing Director, Hafenstrom AS, Norway

Paula Peiro, Executive Coordinator, Gadia, Valencian Community

 

Keynote speech:

Isabelle Vandoorne, European Commission

Marcos Nogueira, H2020 AURORAL Project & Alentejo Office in Brussels

Matti Roine, MHR Consulting

Omar Ahmad, University of Iowa

 

SPEAKERS:

Carmen Carvalheira, Alentejo region vice-president

Ragnhild Wahl, Director, ITS Norway

Isabelle Vandoorne, European Commission

Omar Ahmad, University of Iowa