CO-SECURE
Knowledge building and social innovation for successful more effective and co-produced urban security solutions
CO-SECUR aims to build knowledge and a suite of tools, including a Societal Development Plan to foster and accelerate the adoption of social innovations and responsible innovation principles that contribute to successful, more effective, and co-produced security solutions for public spaces.
Duration: 2023 – 2026
Leading institution: University Polytechnic Madrid
Involved organisations: Kveloce (Spain), Evalu (Poland),
Digital Europe (Italy), EIP (Romania), Tero (Greece), UWEG (Germany), Smart Continent (Lithuania) & others.
DISTENDER
DevelopIng Strategies by integrating mitigation, adaptation and participation to climate change risks
The ambition of DISTENDER is to provide a methodological framework that supports climate adaptation and mitigation strategies, that integrate top-down and bottom-up approaches into a multi-scale cross-sectoral framework such as agriculture, health and well-being, energy, water, biodiversity, forestry, transport and urban planning, and to use this framework to examine multi-scale interactions of climate adaptation and mitigation actions.
Duration: 2023 – 2026
Leading institution: University Polytechnic Madrid (Spain).
Involved organisations: University of Koeln (Germany), University of Wageningen (Netherlands), University of Graz (Austria), Smart Continent (Lithuania) & others.
TINNGO
TInnGo: Transport innovation gender observatory
The TInnGO project is developing a framework and mechanisms for a sustainable game change in European transport using the transformative strategy of gender and diversity sensitive smart mobility. It address gender related contemporary challenges in the transport ecosystem and women’s mobility needs, creating a route for Gender Sensitive Smart Mobility in European Transport, which considers diversity of different groups.
Duration: 2019 – 2021
Leading institution: University of Coventry (UK)
Involved organisations: Copenhagen University (Denmark), Politechnico Torino (Italy), Technical University Ilmenau (Germany), Smart Continent (Lithuania) & others.
PORTIS
PORT-Cities: Integrating Sustainability
CIVITAS PORTIS designs, demonstrates and evaluates integrated sets of sustainability measures in 5 major port cities located on the North Sea (Aberdeen and Antwerp), the Mediterranean Sea (Trieste), the Black Sea (Constanta), and Baltic Sea (Klaipeda). The project also involves a major international follower port city on the East China Sea (Ningbo).
Duration: 2016 – 2020
Leading institution: City of Antwerpen (Belgium)
Involved organisations: Aberdeen City (UK), Trieste City (Italy), Constanza City (Romania),
Klaipeda City (Lithuania), Ningbo University (China)
Smart Continent (Lithuania) & others.
SUITS
Supporting Urban Integrated Transport Systems: Transferable tools for authorities
The overall aim of SUITS is to increase the capacity of local authorities to develop and implement sustainable, inclusive, integrated and accessible transport strategies, policies, technologies, practices, procedures, tools, measures and intelligent transport systems that recognize the end-to-end travel experiences of all users and freight. This was achieved by taking a socio-technical approach to addressing capacity shortfalls in the 6 areas: innovative financing, evidence and argument, mobility intelligence, data gathering, procurement, safety and security.
Duration: 2016 – 2020
Leading institution: University of Coventry (UK)
Involved organisations: Politechnico Torino (Italy)
Technical University Ilmenau (Germany), KTH (Sweden), Smart Continent (Lithuania) & others.
METPEX
Measurement tool to determine the quality of passenger experience
METPEX stands for measurement tool to determine the quality of passenger experience and its results are used to inform policy makers in providing inclusive, passenger-oriented integrated transport systems that are accessible by all citizens. The development of an inclusive, validated passenger experience measurement instrument is the first step in creating high quality, user centred, integrated, accessible public transport services, which are capable of attracting and retaining public transport users whilst meeting sustainability targets.
Duration: 2013 – 2015
Leading institution: Coventry University (UK)
Involved organisations: Politechnico Torino (Italy),
KTH (Sweden), Interactions Ltd (Ireland), Smart Continent (Lithuania) & others.
AP2050+
The 2050+ Airport
The “2050+ Airport” project develops three different airport concepts (passenger time efficient, climate neutral and low cost) that demonstrate what the future airport will look like when taking one of the areas as the leading objective. The project shows the benefits and challenges of the different concepts and the trade-offs between the different areas to be made. The airport concepts describe the interface between the aircraft and the ground and the new principles for the airport layout including intermodal connections. The passenger and the baggage will experience a seamless travel through the 2050+ airport.
Duration: 2011 – 2014
Leading institution: NLR (Netherlands)
Involved organisations: Technical University Delft (Netherlands)
University of Polytechnics Madrid (Spain), DLR (Germany), Smart Continent (Lithuania) & others.
CLOSER
Connecting long and short distance networks for efficient transport
CLOSER project provides an overview of how to support knowledge sharing (e.g. evaluations, recommendations, specific guidelines) in the interface between long and short-distance transport networks in the transport chain for both passengers and freight in order to get more systematic approach within the whole system of the new mobility schemes for the stakeholders.
Duration: 2010 – 2012
Leading institution: IFSTTAR (France)
Involved organisations: Transportøkonomisk institutt -TOI (Norway), Centrum dopravního výzkumu CDV (Czech Republic),
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas/Hellenic Institute of Transport CERTH/HIT (Greece),
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Lithuania) & others.
COFRET
Carbon footprint of freight transport
COFRET worked with existing initiatives that were already being developed by various stakeholders in the supply chain so that it was aligned with the needs of those responsible for shipping and transporting goods by whatever means. COFRET used this approach to help in the standardisation of a carbon footprinting approach for supply chains and their individual elements. This close co-operation between the research team and industry stakeholders was an integral element of COFRET.
Duration: 2010 – 2012
Leading institution: DLR (Germany)
Involved organisations: TNO (Netherlands), Technical University Delft (Netherlands), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas / Hellenic Institute of Transport – CERTH/HIT (Greece),
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Lithuania) & others.
TRANSNEW
Support for realising new Member and Associate States’ potentials in transport research
The main objectives of the TransNEW project were to research the current state-of-the-art of transport research provision in each of the New Member States (NMS) and Associated States. This included the four transport modes of road, rail, waterborne and aeronautics and included both the public and private sectors. After successfully researching and gathering this information it was collated together and developed into the TransNEW database of transport researchers across the regions and modes.
Duration: 2010 – 2011
Leading institution: University of New Castle
Involved organisations: Transport research centre (Czech Republic), Riga Technical University (Latvia), Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Lithuania) & others.
BESTFACT
Best Practice Factory for Freight Transport
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 has established a robust and replicable methodology for collecting and processing best practices. Best practice is understood as the combination of three dimensions: (1) the identification, evaluation and prioritising of relevant business cases. (2) the credible knowledge management of best practices and (3), the utilisation and implementation within existing or new industrial realities.
Duration: 2012 – 2015
Leading institution: PTV GmbH (Germany)
Involved organisations: VTT (Finland), University of New Castle (UK), University of Westminster (UK), Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Lithuania) & others.
BESTUFS II
Best urban freight solutions II
BESTUFS II CA is a follow-up initiative of the thematic network BESTUFS and aims to maintain and expand an open European network between urban freight transport experts, user groups/associations, ongoing projects, the relevant European Commission Directorates and representatives of national, regional and local transport administrations and transport operators in order to identify, describe and disseminate best practices, success criteria and bottlenecks with respect to City Logistics.
Duration: 2004 – 2008
Leading institution: PTV (Germany)
Involved organisations: University of New Castle (UK), University of Westminster (UK), & others.
PE4TRANS
Knowledge building and social innovation forPublic Engagement for Sustainable Public Transport
successful more effective and co-produced urban security solutions
PE4Trans addresses the issue of potential for improvement of public transport policies by including citizens to the process of design and implementation of sustainable transport strategies and plans with the view to change peoples’ mobility habits and routines incorporating findings of behavioural sciences. Regions and cities across Europe invest significant funds in public transport infrastructures, introduce incentives and regulations as well as information campaigns with the view to reduce carbon footprint by stimulating peoples more pro-environmental behaviours. P4Trans partners adopt the approach “for the people, by the people and with the people” as a guiding principle for the possible policy improvements
Duration: 2018 – 2023
Leading institution: Poznan Science and Tech Park (Poland)
Involved organisations: Coventry University Enterprise Limited (UK), City of Vallidolid (Spain), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) & others.
NSB CORE
North Sea Baltic connector of regions
NSB CoRe enhances regional development in the north-eastern Baltic Sea Region by improving the internal and external accessibility of the region along the North Sea Baltic TEN-T corridor. NSB Core improves the accessibility of cities, regions and industries, communicates and facilitates between local, national and EU-level decision-makers and creates mechanisms to support private sector’s participation in multi level governance of industries and logistics.
Duration: 2016 – 2019.
Leading institution: Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council (Finland).
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EAST WEST
East-West Transnational Transport Corridor
The aim has been to develop the East-West Transport Corridor as an efficient transport corridor with close co-operation between interlinked hubs, meeting market demands for growing freight transport to and from Scandinavia and Lithuania in a more environmentally-friendly way.
Duration: 2006 – 2007.
Leading institution: Region Blekinge (Sweden).
INLOC
Integrating logistics centre networks
InLoC’s strategic focus is on the integration of various networks within and between logistics centres in order to improve and develop the quality of logistics networks as well as to spatially widen the networking activities. The key objectives of the project are linked to various approaches to logistics centre integration and networks. The key objectives are to integrate the links between logistics centres, ports and other logistics operators in a functional and sustainable way, to promote spatial integration by creating sustainable and integrated approaches to spatial planning of logistics centres and transport infrastructure.
Duration: 2004 – 2006.
Leading institution: University of Turku (Finland).
INTRASEA
Inland transport on sea routes
Figures of foreign trade and the modal split in the Baltic Sea region have been collected and the advantages of inland shipping and how to improve the waterborne transport to inland markets were assessed. Studies on the transportation chain information system and consequences coordinating the transport chain have been conducted. Cases on environmental studies and modal shift scenarios have been evaluated and included in the final reports. An assessment of the methods for Finland, Germany, Poland, Russian Federation and Sweden, discussing the similarities and deviations between the systems of justification of infrastructure investments, has been performed.
Duration: 2003 – 2006
Leading institution: Sjöfartsverket (Sweden).