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PHYSICAL ACTIVITY THROUGH SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT APPROACHES (PASTA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

This project focuses on the systematic promotion and facilitation of active mobility (AM) (i.e. walking and cycling including the combination with public transport use) as an innovative approach to integrate physical activity (PA) into individuals’ everyday lives. In contrast to sports or exercise, AM requires less time and motivation, since AM provides both convenience as a mode of transport, and ...
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FREVUE VALIDATING FREIGHT ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN URBAN EUROPE (FREVUE)

Start date: Mar 15, 2013, End date: Sep 14, 2017,

Eight of Europe’s largest cities, will demonstrate that electric vehicles operating “last mile” freight movements in urban centres can offer significant and achievable decarbonisation of the European transport system. Demonstrators will be deployed in Amsterdam, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan, Oslo, Rotterdam and Stockholm. The demonstrators have been designed to ensure FREVUE covers the breadth of ...
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Zero Emission bUs Systems (ZEEUS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

Electrification of the public transport is a raising trend in Europe, and electric buses are soon expected to enter markets as one of the most interesting options for matching urban environmental targets. Electrification is driven by both economics and politics. However, although technology is not yet fully matured and ready for wide commercialisation, a large demonstration project will facilitat ...
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SOLUTIONS: Sharing Opportunities for Low carbon Urban transporTatION (SOLUTIONS)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Transport is a key enabler of economic activity and social connectedness. While providing essential services to society and economy, transport is also an important part of the economy and it is at the core of a number of major sustainability challenges, in particular climate change, air quality, safety, energy security and efficiency in the use of resources (EC 2011: Transport White Paper).The ove ...
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CIVITAS CAPITAL – making the best of CIVITAS! (CAPITAL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The mission of CIVITAS CAPITAL is to contribute significantly to the goals of the EU's Transport White Paper by capitalising systematically on the results of CIVITAS and creating an effective "value chain" for urban mobility innovation. CAPITAL will initiate and support a mainstreaming process of CIVITIAS principles based on a strengthened community of stakeholders. CAPITAL will help CIVITAS to bu ...
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Cities demonstrating cybernetic mobility (CITYMOBIL2)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

European cities face four main mobility problems: congestion, land use , safety and environment. One of the main causes of such problems is the car-ownership rate. The centres of large cities address this issue combining efficient mass transits with car restriction policies but peripheral areas and smaller cities remain dominated by private cars.CityMobil has demonstrated how automating road vehi ...
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IMPROVING THE SAFETY AND MOBILITY OF VULNERABLE ROAD USERS THROUGH ITS APPLICATIONS (VRUITS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

In the past, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) success has been achieved primarily though equipment of the vehicle and infrastructure. The focus of these ITS has been on clean, safe and efficient mobility for vehicles.The Vulnerable Road User (VRU) has reaped fewer benefits of the ITS developments. While some projects have considered VRUs from a safety viewpoint, they often aimed to avoid or mit ...
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European Smart Mobility Resource Manager (MyWay)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

For many decades, urban planning and transport evolved around the private car, which has resulted in problems such as congestion, noise, pollution, etc. To tackle these adverse impacts and improve the livability of Europe's cities, citizens today can benefit, next to the private vehicle, public transport and non-motorised modes, from a variety of new sustainable and complementary mobility schemes, ...
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Best Practice Factory for Freight Transport (BESTFACT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The BESTFACT objective is to develop, disseminate and enhance the utilisation of best practices and innovations in freight logistics that contribute to meeting European transport policy objectives with regard to competitiveness and environmental impact.BESTFACT builds up on the work of BESTUFS, PROMIT and BESTLOG and integrates four interrelated areas of the key freight logistics challenges the Eu ...
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New tOols for Design and OpEration of Urban Transport InterchangeS (NODES)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"Urban mobility is of growing concern to citizens. To be more efficient urban mobility systems require a greater integration at urban level (city and its hinterland).Interchanges need to better integrate:- various urban transport modes, which can be urban, regional and long distance;- urban transport and land use;- urban transport networks;- transport and non transport related services.Not only wi ...
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Transport Innovation Deployment for Europe (TIDE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The mission of the TIDE project will be to enhance the broad transfer and take-up of 15 innovative urban transport and mobility concepts throughout Europe and to make a visible contribution to establish them as mainstream measures. The TIDE partners will make a range of new and feasible solutions easily accessible to address key challenges of urban transport such as energy efficiency, decarbonisat ...
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Smart Urban Freight SolutIONs (SmartFuSION)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The SMARTFUSION public-private partnership (PPP) will build upon existing urban freight development strategies of three demonstration regions and to demonstrate smart urban freight solutions on co-operative and sustainable city distribution in urban interurban supply chains. Leading idea is to introduce the concept of the European Green Car Initiative in the last mile operations, introduce innovat ...
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iCargo - Intelligent Cargo in Efficient and Sustainable Global Logistics Operations (iCargo)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

iCargo IP aims at advancing and extending the use of ICT to support new logistics services that: (i) synchronize vehicle movements and logistics operations across various modes and actors to lower CO2 emissions, (ii) adapt to changing conditions through dynamic planning methods involving intelligent cargo, vehicle and infrastructure systems and (iii) combine services, resources and information fro ...
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Development of a methodology and tool to evaluate the impact of ICT measures on road transport emissions (ICT-EMISSIONS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

ICT-EMISSIONS aims at developing a novel methodology to evaluate the impact of ICT-related measures on mobility, vehicle energy consumption and CO2 emissions of vehicle fleets at the local scale, in order to promote the wider application of the most appropriate ICT measures. The proposed methodology combines traffic and emission modelling at micro and macro scales. These will be linked with interf ...
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Design of Electric LIght Vans for Environment-impact Reduction (DELIVER)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

CO2 emissions, noise emissions and other negative impacts caused by present urban delivery concepts and specifically by the delivery vehicles are unsustainable in present and future European urban life. Fully electric light delivery vehicles (LDV) not only offer zero local CO2 emissions and close-to-zero noise emissions.The change in propulsion technology from ICE to electric powertrains will lead ...
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Mobility based on eLectric Connected vehicles in Urban and interurban smart, cLean, EnvironmentS (MOLECULES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Electro-mobility (for the purpose of this document, Electro-Mobility is the mobility offer by electric vehicles that are fully integrated into a well adapted transport system) is seen as one of the largest opportunities to radically change today's transport system and make a quantum leap into the next generation of sustainable mobility.The aim is to contribute to a pre-deployment and wider uptake ...
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Enhancing Intermodality of Content, Personalised Information and Functionality of WISETRIP Network of Journey Planning Engines (ENHANCED WISETRIP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

An attempt to integrate Journey Planning engines to form a unified intermodal planner for international journeys, has been performed by the WISETRIP FP7 project. WISETRIP has addressed important needs of the international traveller including the provision of personalized information before and during the trip, under different usage scenarios. The proposed Enhanced WISETRIP project aims at building ...
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Advancing Sustainable Urban Transport in an Enlarged Europe through CIVITAS (VANGUARD)

Start date: Sep 15, 2008, End date: Jul 14, 2014,

CIVITAS VANGUARD will assist the EC Directorate for Transport and Energy in coordinating the “CIVITAS-Plus” phase of its “CIVITAS Initiative” for cleaner and sustainable urban transport, as well as to assist in the dissemination of CIVITAS-Plus results. The project will be implemented by a consortium consisting of European city networks as well as transport, energy and policy oriented organization ...
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Cooperative Cities extend and validate mobility services (Co Cities)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

Current EU cooperative systems projects like CVIS, SAFESPOT & COOPERS have demonstrated technical feasibility and positive user acceptance of cooperative mobility services.In the In-Time project common traveller information services based on distributed regional data sources accessible via one commonly agreed data interface have been developed.These common mobility services include dynamic navigat ...
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Field Operational Test Networking and Methodology Promotion (FOTNet2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

During the lifetime of the different Field Operational Tests (FOT) carried out both at National and European levels, there is a crucial need for a networking platform allowing individual FOTs to benefit from each others experiences as well as giving a better overview of the scattered activities.While FOT-Net 1 was focussing on building up the FOT network and promoting methodology, FOT-Net 2 explic ...
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Smart Transport Applications Designed for large events with Impacts on Urban Mobility (STADIUM)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"STADIUM addresses the task 3.1.7 - Large event mobility management (especially in big cities) of the call FP7 – SST – 2008The ultimate goal of the project is to improve the performance of transport systems made available to a wide and differentiated range of users in the framework of large events hosted by big cities, through the development of a set of guidelines and tools to implement managemen ...
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City multi-Role Optimized Vehicle (CITY MOVE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"The delivery of freight in urban areas is based on general purpose commercial vehicles, not dedicated to a mission in a very specific scenario like urban areas. This is particularly true for medium vehicles (7,5-12 tons) that are however widely used in towns. CITY MOVE aims to develop a new concept for urban delivery vehicles, a real breakthrough from the actual vehicle platforms, using the lates ...
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Acoustically Green Road Vehicles and City Areas (CITYHUSH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"The CITYHUSH project will support city administrations in the production and implementation of noise action plans according to the directive EC 2002/49.The identified hot spots and noise acting plans made with the existing technology suffer from major shortcomings:1. poor correlation between hot spots with annoyance and complaints;2. most measures lead to increased emissions;3. only indoor noise ...
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Support Action for Implementation of ERTRAC's Road Transport Research Priorities (SAFIER)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

"SAFIER will build the strategies for implementing a step-change in the road transport sector - and more widely within the transport and energy sectors – by providing the objective, consensus-based plans for the European Technology Platform ERTRAC (European Road Transport Research Advisory Council), Since 2002 ERTRAC has been an open forum for all relevant stakeholders in the road transport resear ...
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Urban Freight Energy Efficiency Pilot (FREILOT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

Transportation of goods is a key enabler for European economy to maintain its competitiveness. However, the same transportation brings other, less positive effects, such as CO2 emissions, contributing to the global gas house effect. Therefore, reduction of fuel consumption, CO2 emissions and emissions of other pollutants is one of the biggest challenges for the road transport today.The specific en ...
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Carbon Aware Travel Choices in the climate-friendly world of tomorrow (CATCH)

Start date: Aug 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

"The CATCH Project aims to develop a knowledge platform which will become a public information system for mobility related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction advice. The holistic Platform will provide travellers, businesses, planners and other mobility stakeholders with the tools to play their part in creating a new mobility culture promoting timely and informed climate-friendly travel choic ...
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Open Architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardisation (OASIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

OASIS introduces an innovative, Ontology-driven, Open Reference Architecture and Platform, which will enable and facilitate interoperability, seamless connectivity and sharing of content between different services and ontologies in all application domains relevant to applications for the elderly and beyond. The OASIS platform is open, modular, holistic, easy to use and standards abiding. It includ ...
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CITY NETwork for fair MOBILity (CityNetMobil)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

CityNetMobil focus is on automated transport systems and its approach, is to organise dissemination actions to raise the awareness around these systems. Awareness to increase acceptance, by politicians, local mobility planners and general public, of automated transport systems as a more inclusive urban transport solution, providing better access to all, environmentally friendly, capable of reducin ...
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Pre-commercial Public Procurement for ITS innovation and deployment (P3ITS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

The mid-term review of the 2001 White Paper stresses the key role of innovation in ensuring sustainable, efficient and competitive mobility in Europe. The EC ITS Action Plan Communication highlights the need for innovation and market introduction of cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). With cooperative ITS, drivers' vehicles will "talk" directly to other vehicles and with the traffic m ...
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Coordination Of Network Descriptors for Urban Intelligent Transportation Systems (CONDUITS)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

"The main objectives of this project are to develop Key Performance Indicators that assist European municipalities in business decisions for ITS projects and to facilitate best practice experiences between municipalities on experiences with ITS. An important aspect of the research is further to link the performance indicators to the current traffic situation in the cities. The project consortium c ...
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New and Innovative Concepts for Helping European Transport Sustainability - Towards Implementation (NICHES+)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

"NICHES+ aims to network actors engaged in developing innovative urban transport concepts. This proposal relates to the successful previous NICHES project, with similar objectives, but different topics. Both share the mission to stimulate a debate on innovative urban transport between stakeholders from different sectors, to promote the most promising new concepts from their current niche position ...
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Smart freight transport in urban areas (SMARTFREIGHT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

Goods distribution is important for businesses and the life of a city. However, the efficiency as well as the environmental impacts is negatively influenced by traffic congestion, scarcity of loading areas, sub-optimal delivery routes and too little use of return loads. The transport of dangerous goods is also a safety risk.This project will make urban freight transport more efficient, environment ...
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Field Operational Tests Networking and Interaction (FOT-Net)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

During the lifetime period of the different FOTs carried out both at the National and European levels, there is a crucial need for a platform of knowledge exchange in order to let these individual FOT's benefit from each others' learning experiences as well as giving the European Commission an overview of the activities involved. This networking platform open to all stakeholders from public and pr ...
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MEthodology for Describing the Accessibility of Transport in Europe (MEDIATE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2010,

"The European FP7 on Transport is highlighting the importance of developing pan-European transport systems for the benefit of all citizens, with reference to the European transport policy. Despite recent progress made, many European citizens are still experiencing barriers and reduced accessibility to transportation. The overall objective of MEDIATE is to contribute to the development of inclusive ...
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Strengthening road transport research cooperation between Europe and emerging international markets II (SIMBA II)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

"The SIMBA II project aims to increase RTD cooperation between the EU and the ICPC of Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa. SIMBA II will look at how the EU and ICPC can jointly increase road safety, mobility and transport efficiency, improve road and transport network management and research appropriate pavement design while at the same time improving levels of transport-related pollutio ...
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