The high-caliber experts from nine EU-funded Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects, aiming to bring groundbreaking technological innovations in the transport area, and the representatives from the European Commission gathered in Brussels on the 8th and 9th of February to discuss the recent developments and the perspectives of the Multimodal Traffic Management Systems (MTM).
This Cluster Meeting practically kicked off the preparation of a revised Strategic Research and Implementation Roadmap for MTM to capture all the work undertaken by these nine Horizon projects: DIT4TraM, FRONTIER, TANGENT, ORCHESTRA, ACUMEN, DELPHI, SYNCHROMODE, IN2CCAM and CONDUCTOR.
Taking as the basis for the work to be performed the 2016 STRIA Roadmap for Network and Traffic Management Systems, the aim is to properly reflect the major changes in the sector and provide valuable feedback to policy-makers in the EU focusing on the strategic research needs as well as on the mature solutions that are already in place and can be utilised.
The European Commission representatives from the DG MOVE, the CINEA and the JRC made an overview the MTM Policy context and the next steps of the Strategic Research and Implementation and provided their views and ideas to guide the work expected to be implemented by the cluster of the projects.
The meeting was organised as a series of World cafes and interactive workshops around different research questions on the areas to be covered in the Roadmap document.
FRONTIER coordinated the preparatory activities. Moreover, our experts from EURECAT, ICCS, the University of Wolverhampton and Frontier Innovations undertook the leadership of different sessions of the meeting according to their areas of expertise.
We were excited to join forces with almost 50 professionals to make our sound contribution to the revised Strategic Research and Implementation Roadmap for MTM and, therefore, the future of the sector in Europe and beyond.