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CLOSED FOR APPLICATIONS MG-2-11-2020: Network and traffic management for future mobility

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  • Brief information on the Funding Opportunity

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    Program: H2020 Smart, Green and Integrated Transport

    Geographical coverage: EU
    Available contribution: 4 to 5 M€ per project  (The budget for this topic is: 20 M€)

    Type of Action: Research and Innovation action

    Deadline Model : two-stage

    • Opening:   03 September 2019
    • 1st stage Deadline:   09 January 2020 17:00:00 Brussels time;
    • 2nd stage Deadline:  08 September 2020 17:00:00 Brussels time.

  • Partners Profiles

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    • Partner profile of CDV Transport Research Center (Link)

    • CARA, French cluster based in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, comprises over 200 members, including manufacturers, transport operators, universities, research and education centres.

    • ICOOR Partner profile

    • TRI-VIZOR proactively prepares, designs and operates horizontal partnerships and collaborative communities among shippers.

    • CML has been working for almost 10 years in the field of analysis and forecasting of logistic transport flows. Furthermore, the CML deals with the simulation of traffic flows on terminals and has intensively investigated the different requirements of autonomous vehicles for existing infrastructures.

    • ITENE capacities: advanced systems of traffic management, infrastructure and autonomous vehicle, transport on demand.

    • Lukasiewicz - Institute of Logistics and Warehousing is widely acknowledged as Poland's centre of competence in logistics and digitalization, and a strategic partner of GS1 Poland.

    • Newopera would like to join as a partner has already participated in 11 European projects mainly in rail freight transport but also logistics.

  • Partner Search

  • Specific Challenge

    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.

  • Scope

    In order to meet this challenge, proposals should build on existing state-of-the-art and address at least 6 of the following aspects:

    • Analyse the requirements for a next-generation multi-modal network and traffic management capability (incl. intra-modal optimisation and development of cross-modal interfaces), which would enable the integration of smart infrastructures, connected and automated vehicles, systems and services into a truly multi-modal network.

    • Develop multi-actor organisational and business models with shared responsibilities, which would enable effective network and traffic management by designing appropriate interfaces and interactions between the different traffic management systems of stakeholders.

    • Develop tools for dynamic transport demand management and dynamic transport supply optimisation, enabling demand-capacity balancing for efficient journey management (for passengers and freight).

    • Design and calibrate arbitration models for complex network and traffic management scenarios and multi-actor settings (optimising multiple performance targets, enabling triggering conditions and balancing individual versus collective needs).

    • Perform simulations for traffic optimisation under various scenarios (e.g. major sport event) involving smart infrastructures, conventional as well as connected and automated vehicles, in urban / non-urban settings, considering foreseen (e.g. roadworks) or unforeseen circumstances (e.g. accidents), within a multi-modal network and traffic management system.
    • Develop and test traffic management systems for connected and automated vehicle fleets, enabling the efficient operation of such fleets on open roads and thereby, contributing to smart, energy efficient, multimodal mobility concepts.

      Design a classification index for smart infrastructures, according to their capability to effectively support optimised network and traffic management for connected and automated vehicles.

    The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of EUR 4 to 5 million each would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.


  • Expected Impact

    Actions are expected to address all of the following aspects:

    • Accelerate the transition towards connected and automated mobility and the development of new services;

    • Facilitate the integration of transport modes into a multimodal network for passengers and freight;

    • Reduce capacity bottlenecks and, traffic jams, thereby saving time (for passangers and freight) and reducing pollutant emissions, leading also to positive health effects in Europe;

    • Improve safety and security in all transport modes, in line with the Transport White Paper (e.g. Vision Zero);
    • Reduce the cost of mobility for all (incl. industry, public authorities and citizens).