After nearly four years of demonstrating fully automated road transport systems in 7 towns and cities across Europe, the CityMobil2 partners would like to share the projects results and their thoughts...
The study tour offers to experience innovations happening in the ‘silicon valley’ of Europe. Local innovators and policy makers will share their experience and practices. This tour is of particula...
This event will bring together freight transport and urban planning practitioners and policy makers to discuss latest developments in the city of Paris, including an option of site visits to a logisti...
The University of Thessaly, Department of Civil Engineering, Traffic, Transportation and Logistics Laboratory – TTLog, is organising the 3rd Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility in Volos, Greece...
ETSC and the Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge organise a lunch debate on cycling safety in light of the EU’s forthcoming cycling strategy on 26 May in Brussels....
The Institute for Road Safety Research (SWOV), Forum of European Road Safety Research Institutes (FERSI) and the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) organise an international high level debate ...
The 21st International Transport and Air Pollution Conference (TAP 2016) “Towards energy transition and cleaner transport” will take place in Lyon (France) with the aim of bringing together scient...
The General Assembly is jointly organised by the European Commission Directorates-General for Mobility and Transport, Energy and Communications Networks, Content & Technology. It is an official associ...
One-day workshop organised by CEN to share information on the main actions arising from the pre-study on urban ITS standardisation needs and gaps, conducted in 2015/16 by a group of ITS experts, inclu...
ITF’s 2016 Summit on Green and Inclusive Transport will explore the importance of low-carbon transport as an essential element in the transition to a green growth economy as well as the changes need...
The Polis Working Group on Environment & Health in Transport in cooperation with the Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme (THE PEP) and the PASTA project, hosted a Side Event durin...
The joint Amsterdam Group-CODECS workshop provides C-ITS deployment pilots and corridors with a platform to report their progress in making cooperative road traffic a reality....
Polis organised a workshop featuring our Dutch members as European leaders in cycling on Monday, April 25th. The event aimed at presenting innovations in the field of cycling for other cities and...
Workshop addressing the exploitation and challenge factors related to a range of cooperative mobility services in the urban environment, organised under the TEAM EU project...
The Transport Research Arena is organised every two years and brings together research, industry and decision makers. This 6th edition is titled "Moving forward: Innovative Solutions for Tomorrow's Mo...
This two-day conference, the final event of the SOLUTIONS project, will showcase the activities performed by cities working together on sustainable mobility as part of the SOLUTIONS project....
The SWITCH project will organise its final conference on Thursday, 14 April 2016 in Bremen, to present results and share knowledge with European cities on embracing active travel for health, and devel...
NOVELOG is a three year research project, supported by the EU HORIZON 2020 Programme, focusing on gaining insight into urban freight transport (UFT) and providing guidance for implementing effective a...
CIVITAS is organising a free training entitled ‘Cycling 2.0’ on 8 April 2016 in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). The training will showcase the best of Dutch cycling culture!...
Petty Crime incidents such as theft, criminal damage and anti-social behaviour adversely impact the local socioeconomic environment. The P-REACT project trials its surveillance platform to prevent pet...
This final lecture by prof. Michael Browne in the VUB Chair series about city distribution is titled ‘Grocery retailing in the UK’- A model for control of the supply chain that tackles the questio...
20% of all the trucks in Europe are driving empty or only half filled. A huge opportunity lies in bundling good flows, making logistics more sustainable and cost-efficient. This seminar, organised by...
The first meeting of the CODECS-CIMEC City Pool will meet on 3 March 2016. The main points of discussion will be city requirements for C-ITS as well as supplier and vehicle manufacturer expectations....
Half-day workshop by the ENDURANCE project on the role and impact of overarching support, frameworks and guidance on sustainable urban transport planning....
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Disability profiles supported in our website
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