The C-Roads Platform is a joint initiative of European Member States and road operators for testing and implementing Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) in view of cross-border harmonisation and interoperability. In the past few years, the C-Roads Platform has managed to make cooperative ITS a reality in the real traffic environment in Europe. This session will deal with the cross-border harmonisation and evaluation of C-ITS services at European level as well as the current achievements, hurdles, and status of C-ITS deployments in Europe.
Steve Schneider, ITS mobility GmbH, C-Roads Germany
Ariana Khesrav, ITS mobility GmbH, C-Roads Germany
Steve Schneider, Managing Director ITS mobility GmbH, C-Roads Germany Coordinator
Martin Böhm, Austriatech, Technical Director C-Roads Platform, Austria
Torsten Geißler, Federal Highway Research Institute, Technical Coordinator C-Roads Germany
Pedro Barradas, Chief Strategy Officer ARMIS ITS, Portugal
Emilie Petit, Technical Coordinator of the French C-ITS pilot projects, Chair of WG2 in C-Roads, France
In the continuous strive for increased road safety in Europe, the EU has set the important long-term milestone of moving close to zero fatalities and serious injuries by 2050 (Vision Zero). In a workshop format, this session is formed to open a deeper discussion on the implications of this ambitious target for R&I in view of other key challenges and opportunities: sustainability, demographic change, connected, cooperative and automated mobility, artificial intelligence and big data. Thereby, the session shall give advice what topics R&I efforts shall focus on in the medium term to reach the long-term target of Vision Zero.
Magnus Granström, SAFER
Peter Urban, IKA RWTH Aachen University
Ingrid Skogsmo, VTI
Patrick Mercier-Handisyde, DG RTD, European Commission
Malin Levin, SAFER
Magnus Granström, SAFER
Patrick Mercier-Handisyde, DG RTD, European Commission
Georgios Tzamalis, DG MOVE, European Commission
Ingrid Skogsmo, VTI
Peter Urban, IKA RWTH Aachen
The rise of automation within the maritime industry has brought up questions on whether advanced technologies can contribute towards more sustainable cargo transport and how they can be implemented reliably and safely, considering the changing role of the human element. This session aims to highlight how automation can support modal shift from roads to waterways by presenting the latest research from the EU-funded AUTOSHIP, AEGIS, and MOSES projects. The session will attempt to identify challenges related to disruptive technologies and their interaction with various actors in the supply chain, as well as the expected economic, environmental, societal, and safety benefits.
Nikolaos P. Ventikos, Associate Professor, School of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Odd Erik Mørkrid, Senior Project Manager, Energy and Transport, SINTEF Ocean
Ørnulf Jan Rødseth, Senior Scientist, SINTEF Ocean
Nikolaos P. Ventikos, Associate Professor, School of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Lars Andreas Lien Wennersberg, Research Scientist SINTEF Ocean AS
Kristoffer Kloch, DFDS
Janne Suominen, MacGregor
Konstantinos Louzis, Research Engineer, School of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
The Coordination and Support Action BISON (Biodiversity and Infrastructure Synergies and Opportunities for European Transport Networks, 2021-2023) of the EU H2020 programme aims to mainstream biodiversity within the transport infrastructures in Europe. The session will be tackled, in the first part, the emerging trends and opportunities for Mainstreaming biodiversity and transport (adaptation to climate change, invasive species, safety risks due to collisions with wildlife, etc.), highlight best Practices, and undercover the gaps and barriers hindering the integration of biodiversity and transport infrastructure. In the second part, the session will focus on identifying and prioritising the research and innovation needs for better integration of biodiversity with transport infrastructures all along their life stages. The last section will discuss the draft recommendations to foster mainstreaming biodiversity in national policies and legislation, notably their prioritisation and applicability.
Thierry Goger, FEHRL, Belgium
Thierry Goger, FEHRL, Belgium
Thierry Goger, FEHRL
Yannick Autret, MTES
Carme Rosell, MINUARTIA
Denis Francois, University Gustave Eiffel
Eleni Chalkia
The NAPs of Europe have joined forces in the NAPCORE project creating the world’s largest mobility data platform network. What’s in it for mobility research?
Timo Hoffmann, NAPCORE General Secretary, Federal Highway Research Institute, Germany
Timo Hoffmann, NAPCORE General Secretary, Federal Highway Research Institute, Germany
Damaris Anna Gruber, NAPCORE project management, Austriatech GmbH, Austria
Christos Panayiotou, Acting Director of KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Evangelos Mitsakis, Hellenic Institute of Transport, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
Chrysostomos Mylonas, Hellenic Institute of Transport, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
Christian Kleine, President of TN-ITS and Manager Data Partnerships at HERE Technologies, Germany
This session addresses the current challenges facing electric vehicle batteries and presents approaches to overcoming them from three different research & innovation clusters.
Egoitz Martínez Laserna
Maarten Buyss
Boschidar Ganev
Tomas Jezdinsky
Edel Sheridan, BEPA & Batteries Europe
María Martínez
Maarten Buysse
Egoitz Martínez Laserna
Víctor José Ferreira Ferreira
Massimo De Pieri
Hanna Sahivirta
Natural and human-made extreme events increasingly affect infrastructure performance, including service disruptions and higher maintenance costs, and eventually jeopardize citizens’ safety. This session focuses on safer, better and more efficient road inspection, maintenance, intervention and resilience against such events. Emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twins and Autonomous Robotic Intervention solutions will be discussed, along with tools developed to predict potential hazards and related action plans. Six highly related H2020 projects will give insights into their perspectives of working towards a common goal, addressing key challenges related to integrated solutions, real-life situations, prevention of extreme events and infrastructure resilience.
Marcell Boviz, ESCI
Angelos Amditis, ICCS
Marcell Boviz, ESCI
Nikos Bakalos, Project Coordinator HERON, ICCS
Pedro Arias-Sánchez, Project Coordinator InfraROB, UVIGO
Jose Solís Hernández, Project Coordinator OMICRON, CEMOSA
Margarita Kostovasili, Project Coordinator RESIST, ICCS
Belén Riveiro, Project Coordinator SAFEWAY, UVIGO
Iñaki Beltran, Project Coordinator FORESEE, TECNALIA
Multimodality projects join forces to highlight how to overcome barriers to data sharing and enhance multimodal door-to-door seamless transport.
Ismini Stroumpou
Giuseppe Rizzi
Annika Paul
Ricardo Herranz
Usanmaz Efe
Ismini Stroumpou, Coordinator of SYN+AIR project
Luca Crecco, SESAR 3 JU
Marinic Gorazd, EU Rail SJU
Tu-Tho Thai, MobilityData IO
Aurelien Cottet, Instant System – Enabling MaaS
Emmanuel de Verdalle, ITxPT
Identification of the need for standard improvements to achieve sustainable transportation from a commercial driver’s perspective, including health and working environment improvements.
Anna Anund, VTI
TBD
Katerina Toulilou, CERTH/HIT
Marteyn van Gasteren, ITCL
Peter Moertl, V2C2
Marco Petrelli, Engineering Department of ROMATRE, University in Rome
Rachel Talbot, Loughborough University
This session will see the unique coming together of three EU funded H2020 projects all focused on demonstrating the state-of-the-art research and development results into waterborne transport. Sharing synergies between electrification to reduce GHG and the vision to support the safety of passengers through a total solution for the evacuation of large passenger ships. The session will create a collaborative communication space for all three projects to share their respective aims and objectives and latest results.
Inês Amorim Almeida, CNET-CENTRE NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
Carmen Perea Escribano, ATOS Spain
Inês Amorim Almeida, Current Direct Communications Specialist
Shaun White, Current Direct, Technical Project Manager
Mahima Rathore, Spear Power Systems, EaaS Product Manager
Fabio Mandrile, SEABAT Research & Technological Partner
Alexandros Koimtzoglou, School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Europe’s competitiveness and technology leadership in the field of mobility are two of the European Commission’s prime objectives. Road transport related partnerships such as 2Zero, CCAM, BATT4EU and Clean Hydrogen, along with technology platforms like ERTRAC and ALICE contribute significantly to achieving these goals. By building a bridge between analysing road transport research strategies in considerably competitive markets (e.g. US, China, Japan, South Korea) and enriching the European research area with centres and networks of excellence in various research fields, this session will bring together two approaches that strengthen and improve Europe’s competitiveness in road transport.
Verena Wagenhofer, AVL List GmbH, Austria
Verena Wagenhofer, AVL List GmbH, Austria
Ian Faye, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
Gereon Meyer, VDI/VDE-IT, Germany
Zissis Samaras, LAT/AUTH, Greece
This session addresses the current challenges facing electric vehicle batteries and presents approaches to overcoming them from three different research & innovation clusters.
Egoitz Martínez Laserna
Maarten Buysse
Boschidar Ganev
Tomas Jezdinsky
Egoitz Martínez Laserna
Juan Alberto Romero
Alberto Gómez Núñez
Amelia Langley
Organised by the Clean Hydrogen Partnership and the European Commission (DG MOVE), this Invited Session will highlight the importance of hydrogen valleys in coastal areas, how to accelerate the hydrogen economy in ports and their importance towards a green transition.
Clean Hydrogen Partnership together with DG MOVE
Bart Biebuyck, Executive Director, Clean Hydrogen Partnership
Stijn Vercammen, Senior Manager Climate & Energy, Deloitte
Torsten Klimke, Head of Innovation and Research Unit, DG MOVE, European Commission
Jorge Lara, Project Manager, Fundación Valenciaport
Miguel Castro, Administração dos Portos de Sines e do Algarve
According to research from the WRI, around 10 years are left to half emissions of freight transport to reach climate targets. Much has been achieved during recent years; most solutions remain isolated approaches for e.g., specific transport modes or transport challenges. Improving freight transport requires a systemic approach though. In particular, the interface between long haul and short haul transport is key to achieving the needed change. In our session representatives of industry, politics and research discuss how to improve this interface, what opportunities and challenges they have observed and experienced, and how hurdles will be overcome.
This session is organised by ECTRI and in particular by its Thematic Group on Freight & Logistics
Verena Ehrler, Université Gustave Eiffel, Leader of ECTRI Freight and Logistics Thematic Group
Saskia Seidel, DLR Institute of Transport Research
Matthias Prandstetter, AIT, and co-leader of ECTRI Freight and Logistics Thematic Group
Elpida Xenou, CERTH, and co-leader of ECTRI Freight and Logistics Thematic Group
Saskia Seidel, DLR Institute of Transport Research
Sandra Rothbard, Freight Matters
Andrea Dapra, Austrian Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Innovation and Technology for the Government Perspective
Fernando Liesa, Secretary General at Alice (Alliance for Logistics Innovation through Collaboration in Europe) transport industry representative
Rosário Marcário, University of Lisbon, Professor and Researcher in Transportation, Vice President of the CERIS, Coordinator of CESUR, Director of the Master in Transport Planning and Operations, at IST Universidade de Lisboa
Rishi Verma, (in representation of Anne Goodchild), University of Washington, US
Alexandra Rodrigues, PNO Innovation Portugal
This session is supported by:
TRB and in particular by the TRB International Coordinating Council and the TRB Freight System Group
ALICE Technology Platform
Urban cycling and micromobility can greatly contribute to meeting the environmental goals set in the European Green Deal and the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy of the EC. However, mobility services and transport infrastructure can only contribute to a cultural change that needs to engage individuals and local communities alike. Gamification schemes rewarding certified urban bike rides have proved successful as nudging tools inducing the modal shift. The session, in the form of a panel discussion, brings together key stakeholders from companies, academia, and public administration generating, implementing, and testing the results of different interventions in several European cities.
Annarita Leserri, Pin Bike
Philip Amaral, ECF
Olga Pereira, City of Braga
Maria Kostantinidou, CERTH
Annarita Leserri, Pin Bike
Antonio Di Bacco, ISINNOVA
Manuel Crespo, EIT Urban Mobility
Today the world is facing a number of crises such as climate change, energy shortage, scarcity of construction materials, social exclusion. Learning methods and curricula have to adapt to changing environment and technologies as well as to sharp evolving social and strategic expectations. Higher education institutions have an important role to play in promoting the skills and competences needed for a multidisciplinary dialogue with policymakers and the industry. Panellists will share their views on post-carbon educational programmes, on the importance of more connected training systems in Europe so as to better support cities’ transformation policies and mobility issues. They will discuss how metropolitan regions and municipalities will benefit from the knowledge co-produced with universities.
Jean-Bernard Kovarik, vice-president in charge of Public Policy Support, University Gustave Eiffel
TBD
Carla Tavares, President of the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon and Mayor of Amadora Municipality
Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues, Rector, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon
Gilles Roussel, President, University Gustave Eiffel
Jean-François Blassel, School of Architecture “Land and Cities”, University Gustave Eiffel
Michael Frantzen, Vehicle- and Mobility Concepts, Vice Dean International Affairs of the Faculty of Automotive Systems and Production, Technische Hochschule Köln (University of Applied Sciences, Cologne)
Mari Vuolteenaho, Vice-President, LAUREA-University of applied sciences
Markku Anttonen, Director of the research programme Service Business and circular economy, LAUREA-University of applied sciences
Tibor Petrov, Department of International Research Projects – ERAdiate+, University of Zilina
Tatiana Kováčiková, Head of the Department of International Research Projects University of Zilina
The session will showcase international city level demonstrations to test different innovative mobility solutions and upcoming replication activities.
Oliver Lah
TBD
Patrick Mercier-Handisyde, DG RTD, European Commission
Marjolein Salens, CINEA
Stefanie Holzwarth, UN Habitat
Sergio Fernández Balaguer, EMT Madrid
Kathleen Dementera, Clean Air Asia