The transition towards connected and automated mobility, also in a mixed
environment with conventional vehicles/vessels requires effective network and
traffic management solutions. For instance, bottlenecks across road, rail, air
and water can result in system-wide capacity constraints, traffic jams and
increased pollutant emissions. As a result, an advanced multi-modal transport
system requires coordinated and organised traffic flows to dynamically optimise
the entire transport network. Furthermore, integrated urban and inter-urban traffic
management and mobility information systems contribute to optimising transport
flows both through cities and in rural regions. This challenge calls for
the design and optimisation of intelligent systems and operations, to monitor live traffic
conditions and flow performance, to enable real-time traffic information
sharing and network-wide optimisation processes, adapting flows and configurations, as well as to allow
distribution of control actions to network users via connected/cooperative
devices. Such an advanced network and traffic management capability should also
enable new dynamic mobility services for passengers and freight.