2016-2017 Mobility for Growth

Call summary

Scene Setter

Transport is on the brink of a new era of "smart mobility'' where infrastructure, transport means, travellers and goods will be increasingly interconnected to achieve optimised door-to-door mobility, higher safety, less environmental impact and lower operational costs. In order to achieve efficiency at system-level, targeted efforts are needed to develop and validate new solutions that can be rapidly deployed, notably on corridors and in urban areas. They will address transport means and infrastructure and integrate them into a user friendly European transport system of smart connected mobility and logistics. Research and innovation on equipment and systems for vehicles, aircraft and vessels will make them smarter, more automated, cleaner and quieter, while reducing the use of fossil fuels. Research and innovation on smart infrastructure solutions is necessary to deploy innovative traffic management and information systems, advanced traveller services, efficient logistics, construction and maintenance technologies.

As indicated in the Specific Programme, the “activities will be organised in such a way as to allow for an integrated and mode-specific approach as appropriate”. Therefore, the contents of the ‘Mobility for Growth’ call have been structured as follows:

A) Areas addressing mode-specific challenges (technical and socio-economic)

1. Aviation

2. Waterborne

B) Areas addressing cross-modal and/or transport integration specific challenges (technical and socio-economic)

3. Safety

4. Urban

5. Logistics

6. Intelligent Transport Systems

7. Infrastructure

C) Cross-cutting issues

8. Socio-economic and behavioural research and forward looking activities for policy making

In addition to the topics of this call, transport-related actions are also included in other parts of Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017, particularly in the LEIT/NMBP call 'Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Production'; LEIT/Space call 'Applications in Satellite Navigation – Galileo'; and SC/Energy calls 'Competitive Low-Carbon Energy' and 'Smart Cities and Communities'.