Urban areas represent the greatest challenges for freight transport and service trips, both in terms of goods distribution and service allocation performance, and environmental impacts (air emission, traffic congestion, road safety, accidents and noise). The salient scope of the proposal is the enabling of knowledge and understanding of freight distribution and service trips by providing guidance for implementing effective and sustainable policies and measures. This guidance will support the choice of the most optimal and applicable solutions for urban freight and service transport, and will facilitate stakeholder collaboration and the development, field testing and transfer of best governance and business models. This shall be achieved through: - the targeted understanding of urban freight and service trips, fostered by data collection on city logistics, - field testing and implementation of representative city logistics measures, - the development and application of a modular, integrated, evaluation framework for the assessment of these measures - the development of a typology between cities and potential city logistics components, and - the provision of guidance to cities, shaping consistent implementation channels for successful solutions, all according to the local needs and constraints. These activities will be accompanied by the production of practical tools that could support the take-up impact of NOVELOG project to wider international city and industrial networks and beyond the project's lifetime. NOVELOG will contribute to the European Commission's research and policy agenda through the generation of sound knowledge that introduces a new approach to guidance strategies that supports a more sustainable urban environment.

MyCorridor mission is to facilitate sustainable travel in urban and interurban areas and across borders by replacing private vehicle ownership by private vehicle use, as just one element in an integrated/multi-modal MaaS chain, through the provision of an innovative platform, based on mature ITS technology, that will combine connected traffic management and multi modal services and thus facilitate modal shift. It will propose a technological and business MaaS solution, which will cater for interoperability, open data sharing, as well as tackling the legislative, business related and travel-behavior adaptation barriers enabling the emergence of a new business actor across Europe; the one of a Mobility Services Aggregator. MyCorridor will prove this paradigm change through a number of European sites, which are performing long distance and cross border Pilots in a corridor of 6 European countries; from the South (Greece, Italy) through to Central (Austria, Germany, the Netherlands) and Eastern Europe (Czech Republic). Those sites will develop Mobility Package tokens, purchased through one-stop-shop and will incorporate the following services: a) Traffic management services b) Services related to MaaS PT interface c) MaaS vehicle related services and d) Horizontal (business related) services. MyCorridor tasks will be undertaken by a balanced consortium that encompasses all key actors, namely 2 key industrial Partners (SWARCO, Tom-Tom), 7 dynamic SME’s in the mobility market (INFOTRIP, CHAPS, WINGS, MAPTM, AMCO, VivaWallet, HaCon), 1 mobility agency (RSM), 1 ITS association (TTS), 4 Research performers (UNEW, CERTH, UPAT, SRFG), 1 multinational Legal Firm with specialisation in novel mobility scheme structuring (OC) and IRU which will act as the liaison to MaaS Alliance. Also, 11 Letter of Supports have been signed by external to MyCorridor service providers, that commit to allow their services integration in MyCorridor platform.

The mission of ARCADE is to coordinate consensus-building across stakeholders for sound and harmonised deployment of Connected, Cooperative and Automated Driving (CAD) in Europe and beyond. ARCADE supports the commitment of the European Commission, the European Member States and the industry to develop a common approach to development, testing, validation and deployment of CAD in Europe and beyond. ARCADE involves 23 partners, 43 associated partners and over 500 subscribers, jointly forming the CAD network of European experts and stakeholders from the public, industry and research sectors, with international outreach. ARCADE uses a dual approach to identify and overcome bottlenecks and in parallel maximise consensus and synergy between stakeholders. Using a road metaphor, ARCADE focusses on “removing road blocks, paving the road, prevent traffic jams and providing navigation to a common destination”. In an annual cycle, ARCADE positions the CAD Network (WP2) centrally which brings together the CAD community at national, European and International levels. The Thematic Areas (WP3) work on content creation leading to consensus-based positions, needs and scenarios. The Knowledge Base (WP4) consolidates the CAD knowhow baseline and serves as public one-stop shop overview of CAD. The main results of ARCADE will be: · Knowledge Base on CAD regulations and policy, on organisations & projects, on standards, on testing methodologies & data and lessons learned · Scenarios, positions, gap analysis and recommendations on 12 thematic CAD areas · Updates of CAD roadmaps · Common Research & Innovation approaches across EU, US, Japan and other countries involved · Web and news flash promotion of national, European and international CAD activities

The aim of the project is to build a collaborative capacity community and deployment programme to support public and private stakeholders in the implementation of ITS (C-ITS) with training and educational resources which enable knowledge transfer about the benefits and deployment of ITS. The project will assist public and private stakeholders in developing their knowledge, skills, and abilities to build technical, business and policy making proficiency of ITS deployment while furthering their career paths.

The road freight transport industry represents one of the most important sectors in Europe, providing millions of Europeans with fresh produce, bulk goods, liquids and other essentials every day. Arguably the most important position within road freight transport is that of a professional driver, who often has responsibility for driving a truck, loading and unloading goods, liaising with customers, managing routes and schedules and maintaining safety standards. Estimates show that there’s over one million truck drivers working in Europe today, and while it’s fair to suggest that the public perception of a professional driver has been poor it continues to be a valued and important role that flies under the radar of many Europeans. However, times are changing and quickly. The widely publicised testing and development of autonomous vehicles has demonstrated the speed at which technology will change the landscape of the labour market. The widespread introduction of this technology is likely to occur through the commercial road freight sector in the first instance, as it offers the most significant potential towards cost reduction and enhanced safety as well as overall improvement in factors such as air quality and fuel efficiency. However, the consequence of introducing this technology will be the impact that it will have on the one million plus professional drivers within Europe. Forecasts suggest that by 2030 the majority of journeys made by a large goods vehicle will be fully automated, which leaves a question mark over the role of professional drivers in the truck of the near future, and at this stage it isn’t clear about what part they will play in transporting goods. The average age of a European professional truck driver also continues to rise year after year, which demonstrates an ongoing problem to attract new drivers into the industry. It also shows that the industry relies on the experience and skills of well-established and knowledgeable drivers. So we know that the role of drivers will change significantly over the coming years, therefore it's important that transport businesses and professional drivers can be as prepared as possible. The Steer to Career DRV project will focus on developing curricula and professional learning programmes to help companies prepare their professional drivers for a more diverse role within a company. These objectives will focus on areas that will become more important as we move into the age of vehicle autonomy and will include the principles of managing people, basic financial management, emergency responder, customer service and safety management. The project will also seek to develop two sets of guidance; one for managers / company owners and one for professional drivers. The guidance will focus on competences, attitude and social skills, with the aim of helping managers to deploy drivers to alternative positions within a company, and to help drivers recognise the competences they need in order to continue to be successful in their professional life. It is essential that this project is undertaken on a transnational scale because the potential problem is a universal one. Work will be done in conjunction with European and National Qualification Frameworks and will leverage systems such as ESCO (to identify potential career options) for research and development purposes. The experience and knowledge of the project partners will also be utilised where possible and as appropriate. In order to successfully achieve the objectives of the project, Steer to CareerDRV will; • Engage, through interviews and questionnaires, a wide range of stakeholders on the development of the professional, personal and social skills of truck drivers • Undertake industry research to determine the most important and relevant competences • Use the information and output from the series of DRV projects (ProfDRV and ICT-DRV) • Develop a set of professional learning objectives based on management and communication • Produce guidance for managers and professional drivers • Promote the project through media and publication channels • Disseminate the guidance and findings industry-wide