ERTICO - ITS Europe

🎉Congratulations for a very successful Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2026, a strong showcase of how cross-sector collaboration can accelerate the journey from research to deployment! This vision has always been at the core of our mission at ERTICO - ITS Europe, and our team demonstrated through many engaging dialogues during the final days: 🎙️CEO Joost VANTOMME (LL.M) chaired the session 'Workforce Shifts in Transport Policy', exploring how automation, digitalisation and changing mobility patterns are reshaping skills and labour markets across the transport sector. He also engaged in the side event by iRAP on 'Future Ready Roads for Safe, Sustainable Mobility'. 🚗Dr Stephane Dreher moderated the session 'Pathway to CCAM deployment in the EU', to share expertise into scaling CCAM deployment beyond pilot projects by addressing challenges around regulation, public trust, infrastructure, and integration into existing mobility systems. He also participated in the European Commission's stand session on 'CCAM tech trends & your chance to shape EUCAD 2027' - an official launch of the EC/JRC CCAM Observatory, which is hosted on the CAD Knowledge Base. This session also marked the official announcement of the upcoming EUCAD 2026 Symposium in Geneva, Switzerland and EUCAD 2027 conference in Brussels, Belgium, with Connected Automated Driving in Europe. ✈️Dr Vassilis AGOURIDAS presented during the session “New innovative air services for an integrated European multimodal transport ecosystem”, highlighting how drones and innovative aerial services can support more connected, resilient and sustainable multimodal mobility systems using examples from the IDI Platform. 🏙️John Paddington also presented how the metaCCAZE Project is developing new concepts for business innovation and governance models for European cities. ⚡ePowerMove project was represented by Yancho Todorov (VTT) at the EV4EU Final Session, contributing to the discussion on the future of #V2X through stronger European cluster collaboration. Throughout the final days of the conference, ERTICO’s EU-funded project portfolio continued to contribute through technical sessions, poster presentations, demonstrations and stakeholder workshops focused on accessibility, multimodal mobility, electrification, intelligent infrastructure and traffic management innovation. 👏A sincere thank you to all our colleagues, partners, speakers and project teams contributing to this strong presence in Budapest! Didier Gorteman Vladimir Vorotovic FCILT Gino Querini Rita Bhandari Anaïs B. Iuliia Skorykova Nikos Chondrogiannis Ainhoa Arrieta Fernández Lampros Yfantis András Csepinszky Stephen T'Siobbel and many more! #TRA2026 #SmartMobility #TransportResearch #TalkingITS

📅 Save the date for the 4th Interactive Symposium on Research & Innovation for Connected and Automated Driving in Europe, taking place from 8–9 October 2026 in Geneva, Switzerland. Organised by the CCAMbassador project (Connected Automated Driving in Europe) with the support of the European Commission DG RTD and the CCAM Association, this year's Symposium will focus on key topics, including: 🤖 Artificial Intelligence 📡 Digital infrastructure 🏙️ CCAM in cities ⚖️ Regulation and deployment challenges Participants will also have the opportunity to experience automated public transport services and connected vehicle demonstrations operating in Geneva. Learn more about the event 👉https://lnkd.in/dE4Z38AQ Stephane Dreher Julie Castermans Didier Gorteman Joost VANTOMME (LL.M) Vladimir Vorotovic FCILT John Paddington #CCAM #ConnectedMobility #AutomatedDriving #SmartMobility #Innovation #EUCAD2026 #TalkingITS

🎬Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2026 is underway in Budapest and the ERTICO - ITS Europe's team have contributed to many discussions on international cooperation, digital logistics, CCAM collaboration and multimodal innovation deployment: 🔹CEO Joost VANTOMME (LL.M) contributed as Rapporteur on “International Cooperation: One system, many actors”, exploring how Europe can strengthen collaboration with global mobility partners. He was also honoured with the invitation by Steve Phillips to take part in an exclusive workshop with the Governing Board of Conference of European Directors of Roads (CEDR) on skills and workforce. 🔹Head of Transport for Logistics, Dr Eusebiu Catana's delivered a keynote on ‘Key Lessons and Next Steps from the EU-Funded Projects’ with insight into regulation and compliance of existing transport and logistics systems, highlighting boostEDIC M&L, SCUDO Project 3DxVERSE Project and O-CEI Horizon. 🔹 On Tuesday, 19th May, the CCAMbassador project (Connected Automated Driving in Europe), coordinated by ERTICO, and SYNERGIES Project, coordinated by Applus+ IDIADA, organised a joint workshop bringing together UCLA, represented by Professor Jiaqi Ma, and Jane Lapin. While several CCAM projects and stakeholders joined to exchange views on Connected and Cooperative Mobility, ERTICO was represented by Dr Stephane Dreher, Head of CCAM and Senior Manager András Csepinszky. Both sides provided an overview of their respective activities and explored potential areas for cooperation. By the end of the workshop, all parties agreed on the importance of continuing the discussion and developing concrete proposals to strengthen synergies between their projects and activities, align standardisation-related efforts, and prepare a joint plan for further consideration. 👏We were also honoured to organise the SUM Project's last Annual Event, attracting more than 80 participants to discuss and exchange insight into ‘Shared Mobility: Measuring Impact, Shaping Policy’. After 3 years of work and especially implementation, our team at ERTICO organised and chaired the event, covering key findings, policy recommendations and exploitation results, including how we will continue to help the roll-out initiatives through the ERTICO Academy and the first-of-its-kind Open Data Platform tracking the impact of policy on New Shared Mobility. Beyond the sessions, we had the great pleasure to welcome Jerry Buttimer, Irish Minister for Transport with special responsibility for Rural Transport at the stand, trying out the InclusiveSpaces project's tricyle.🚲 Meet us at the stand B/33 to learn more about boostEDIC M&L, SMARTIN Project, ePowerMove project, ZEV-UP Project, CORESpaces EU Project, and CulturalRoad Project - and opportunities to be part of the next EMEA World Congress in Birmingham 2027! Read more about our presence at the TRA Conference for the next days ahead 👉https://lnkd.in/ebw7Dmx5 #TRA2026 #SmartMobility #TransportResearch #TalkingITS

🚀As innovative aerial services continue to mature, the focus is rapidly shifting towards its integration of operations with multimodal traffic management, city operations, logistics systems and wider intelligent transport infrastructure. Through the IDI Platform (Innovation Platform on ITS-driven Innovative Aerial Services), our team at ERTICO - ITS Europe, together with the Platform's members, bring together stakeholders across sectors and regions to help connect aerial mobility with multimodal traffic management and next-generation city and regional operations, supporting the development of integrated aerial mobility ecosystems across Europe and beyond. With the European Commission's decision to renew and expand its Expert Group on drones and innovative air mobility, there's an increased focus on Europe’s strategic mobility priorities ahead of reviewing the EU Drone Strategy 2.0. 🗓️ Applications for the European Commission's first evaluation round are open until 9 June 2026. Find out more about the application process: https://lnkd.in/ekQQsch2 Interested in learning more about this topic and the IDI platform? 👉 Visit idi-platform.org or meet our colleague, Senior Manager & Co-Chair of IDI, Dr Vassilis AGOURIDAS, at the Transport Research Arena (TRA) this week! AUMOVIO ICCS - NTUA German Aerospace Center (DLR) University of Patras Satellite Applications Catapult RTA Dubai KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence ITG Technology Center ICOOR - Interuniversity Consortium for Optimization and Operations Research DEKRA Coventry City Council Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg ITS Nationals Network EU Digital & Tech EU Transport Joost VANTOMME (LL.M) Vladimir Vorotovic FCILT Didier Gorteman #SmartMobility #IntelligentTransport #InnovativeAirMobility #TalkingITS #UrbanMobility

💡The future of mobility is being shaped today by the experts working across sectors to transform ambitious ideas and research into concrete, deployable solutions. Next week, Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2026 will once again provide the platform where these conversations, collaborations and innovations come together to mark another step towards the joint ambition of creating a safe, resilient and more sustainable mobility future. 🌍 As an organisation committed to enabling cross-sector collaboration through European research and deployment of innovation, our team of experts at ERTICO - ITS Europe are proud to actively contribute to the conference programme, including expert-led sessions and stakeholder engagement with a strong showcase of results from a wide portfolio of EU-funded projects and Innovation Platforms presented by Joost VANTOMME (LL.M), Dr Stephane Dreher, Dr Eusebiu Catana, John Paddington, Dr Vassilis AGOURIDAS and many more colleagues on-site! 📍Beyond the conference programme, ERTICO’s presence at Stand B/33 will demonstrate how collaborative research and innovation are already delivering impact with the showcase of the latest developments from boostEDIC M&L, SMARTIN Project, ePowerMove project, ZEV-UP Project, InclusiveSpaces, CORESpaces EU Project, CulturalRoad Project and SUM Project. 🙌We are also pleased to organise the SUM Project’s annual event on Tuesday 19 May from 09:30-13:00, covering the theme ‘Shared Mobility: Measuring Impact, Shaping Policy’. More info 👉 https://lnkd.in/euBq7skd Additional EU-funded projects from across the ERTICO portfolio will also contribute throughout the event, including the MACBETH Project, CAMBER Project, SYNERGIES CCAM Project, CCAMbassador (Connected Automated Driving in Europe), NEXUS Project, EvoRoads Project, FEDORA - EU Project and metaCCAZE Project. Visitors can also meet the team on-site to learn more about opportunities to exhibit or become a partner for the ITS World Congress Birmingham 2027, as well as the upcoming Call for Contributions opening this October! 👏 A sincere thank you to all colleagues, partners, speakers, project coordinators and contributors helping make this strong presence possible and continuing to advance Europe’s mobility innovation and research agenda together! European Commission ITS Nationals Network Didier Gorteman Vladimir Vorotovic FCILT Gino Querini Alastair Kitson Rita Bhandari Anaïs B. Iuliia Skorykova Nikos Chondrogiannis Ainhoa Arrieta Fernández Lampros Yfantis András Csepinszky Stephen T'Siobbel and many more! #TRA2026 #SmartMobility #TransportResearch #TalkingITS

Behind every mobility innovation is a network of people and organisations working together to turn ideas into real-world impact. 📰In this edition, following the first celebration of ERTICO's 35th Anniversary with the ITS Congresses community in Istanbul last month, we look back at the successful outcomes of the 17th ITS European Congress' with closing remarks by CEO Joost VANTOMME (LL.M) and Chief Rapporteur Prof. Eric Sampson, alongside key figures from the post-Congress report and summary overview from the Smart Mobility Summit of Cities & Regions. 👏 While our team of experts contributed to more than 30 sessions across the Programme, we reconnected with many Partners during the traditional Partners Tour and continued to build momentum towards the ITS World Congress Birmingham 2027 with Intelligent Transport Systems UK, Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom, Transport for West Midlands & West Midlands Combined Authority. 🤝 This month, we had the great pleasure of welcoming our new partner evon, and reinforced our collaboration with 6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association. Over the past three decades, mobility has increasingly evolved through cross-sector collaboration, a transformation also reflected in our ITS Market Radar report series. Collaboration continues to be a defining theme in facilitating knowledge sharing and thought leadership across the mobility ecosystem: 📹 In our latest #PartnershipVoices episode, Dr Ömer Fatih Sayan, Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, Republic of Turkey, shares his perspectives on advancing intelligent transport through cooperation. Discover more news from our Partners: TomTom, Qualcomm, Miovision, Toyota Motor Corporation, alongside the latest updates by Enhancing Automated Valet Parking (EAVP), TM2.0 Platform., and Chorus - EU Project, and more upcoming events and webinars with the NEXUS Project and InclusiveSpaces. 📅We look forward to connecting at Transport Research Arena (TRA) in Budapest next week! Meet our team on-site at the ERTICO stand B/33. Read all insights on our website and subscribe to receive ITS latest updates directly in your inbox📬https://dub.sh/ertico-news Vladimir Vorotovic FCILT Didier Gorteman Rita Bhandari Jasvinder Sidhu Joanna Mikolajczyk Agne Vaitekenaite Emil Berlin Nikos Chondrogiannis Frank Daems Gino Querini Julia Rodríguez Rayego Céline Lefort Alastair Kitson John Paddington European Commission ITS Nationals Network GANGNEUNG ITS World Congress #SmartMobility #MobilityInnovation #TalkingITS #ERTICONewsletter

During the 17th ITS European Congress in Istanbul, public sector leaders shared their reflections on how the ITS Congresses provide a unique platform for cross-sector dialogue and collaboration in shaping the future of mobility. Hear directly from Gintarė Janušaitienė (Susisiekimo ministerija / Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania), Pirkko Hämäläinen (Ambassador of Finland to Türkiye, Embassy of Finland in Ankara), Axel Volkery, and Dr Jakob Lohmann from DG MOVE - European Commission (EU Transport) to learn more the value of connecting with industry leaders, researchers and other public authority representatives to collectively transform policy ambitions into deployable mobility solutions. As the conversations in Istanbul brought forward many compelling insights into the ways we shape the future of mobility, attention is already turning towards the next EMEA World Congress in Birmingham, 25-29 October 2027. Stay informed when the Call for Contributions opens this October 👉https://lnkd.in/e6tyctjW #ITS_Istanbul2026 #ITSBirmingham2027 #SmartMobility #TalkingITS Joost VANTOMME (LL.M) Rita Bhandari Sandeep Shingadia FCILT Richard Parker Mike Waters Chris Brown Beccy Marston Didier Gorteman

🤖 How will AI reshape skills across the transport sector? Following the Roundtable on '(Work)less is more: Impacts of artificial intelligence on skills required in the transport sector', we are pleased to see the publication on 'Skills Move us Forward: Transport Workforce Skills in the Age of AI' by ITF - International Transport Forum at the OECD. This report brings valuable insights and perspectives from across the mobility ecosystem to examine how AI is transforming workforce needs, professional roles, and competencies in transport. Read the full ITF report 👉 https://lnkd.in/e5UGccUR 📊As AI becomes increasingly embedded in transport systems, the sector will require not only technical expertise but also stronger cognitive, communication, and AI literacy skills. At the same time, continuous reskilling and the preservation of critical human competencies will remain essential to ensure safety, resilience, and trust in increasingly automated environments. We were honoured to contribute to this important dialogue, with Agne Vaitekenaite, Head of Partnership and Advocacy, and Emil B., Senior Partnership and Governance Officer, sharing insights during the Roundtable in Paris. Their contributions drew on findings from ERTICO’s ITS Radar reports, which track the technology trends shaping the future of mobility. Watch the online presentation of ITF's report: https://lnkd.in/e69nWQVw Learn more about our ITS Market Radar series 📃https://lnkd.in/esFVyTV7 Joost VANTOMME (LL.M) Vladimir Vorotovic FCILT #SmartMobility #Talking ITS #MobilityInnovation #DigitalTransformation

📑 From policy dialogue to practical demonstrations, the 17th ITS European Congress in Istanbul reinforced the importance of collaboration across sectors to deliver resilient and user-centric mobility systems. Bringing together more than 2,700 participants from 54 countries, this year's edition explored how integrated, safe and seamless mobility can move from innovation to large-scale deployment. Discover all key figures with the Post-Congress Report 👉 https://dub.sh/VgfqNJx 🙏 We cannot thank you enough for this successful collaboration! İSBAK Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, Republic of Turkey AUS Türkiye (ITS Türkiye) MCI Brussels. Didier Gorteman Angelos Amditis Joost VANTOMME (LL.M) Vladimir Vorotovic FCILT Pamela Valente Rita Bhandari Matthew O'Rourke Danielle McDonald Valerie Graindorge Maral Kaplan Jasvinder Sidhu Melvyn Sharpe Alexaundra Zanella Serra Seda Okay Uzunogullari Erdem Samut Damla Silahsızoğlu Esma Dilek Pelin Alpkökin