EPF currently participates in the following projects
Unleashing the innovative Potential of Public transport in EuRope
UPPER aims to strengthen the role of public transport as the cornerstone of sustainable and innovative mobility. The project will implement a combination of measures looking to push people out of private cars and to pull them closer to public transport in 10 cities and regions across Europe: Valencia, Rome, Île-de-France, Oslo, Mannheim, Lisbon, Leuven, Budapest, Thessaloniki, Hannover region. Key milestones of the UPPER journey will be increasing public transport uptake by over 30% and user satisfaction by over 25%, without leaving anyone behind. At an operational level, UPPER will implement 84 measures and act on five innovation models to positively influence users’ choices: mindset and culture, urban mobility planning, mobility services ecosystem, road network management, and democratic governance.
Greening European Mobility through cascading innovation INItiatives
GEMINI’s vision is to accelerate the progress towards climate neutrality by reinforcing modal shift through the demonstration and uptake of new shared mobility services, active transport modes, and micro-mobility and their integration with PT in new generation MaaS services. Drivers of this transition will be the GEMINI Mobility Living Labs (MLL) in 8 cities (Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Ljubljana, Munich, Paris, Porto and Turin), engaging local communities in the implementation of their SUMPs and the co-creation, development and adoption of promising innovative mobility solutions.
Implemented Synergies, data sharing contracts and Goals between transport modes and AIR transportation
The project will develop and pilot a new platform for the sharing of data in multimodal travel. The platform will provide the means for transport service providers (TSPs) to register, reach data sharing agreements with other TSPs and manage their contractual relationships. The project will address contract templates to simplify the legal management, the electronic management and information provision about each specific contract, routing information for travel companions (TCs) with enriched information about the specific contracts for their customers. The ultimate aim is to facilitate single ticketing through a comprehensive understanding of the contracts and the data managed, among others.
Designs, Tools & Frameworks for Creating an Accessible & Inclusive Built Environment for All, for Now & for the Future
InclusiveSpaces specializes in the inclusive design and evaluation of urban spaces, focusing on accessibility and social cohesion for people with disabilities and older adults. The EU-funded project aims to develop innovative solutions that embrace universal design principles and climate-friendly practices. The key tools include travel demand data and accessibility evaluation, comfort-based accessibility mapping, routing for visually and mobility-impaired individuals, digitised accessibility audits for buildings and public spaces, and a Universal Design Manual for the Built Environment. Additionally, the project will provide advanced assistive technologies such as shared electric wheelchairs, beach accessibility devices, upright tricycles, and other indoor and outdoor assistive tools. Six European cities will be the testbeds, with findings shaping actionable policies for a more inclusive, climate-friendly future.
A Giant Leap for Loop: Towards a harmonized implementable Hyperloop concept with Hyper4Rail
Hyper4Rail is a project funded by Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking that researches very high-speed guided transport systems (hyperloop) within the European Union. The objective of the project, which consists of 27 international partners from both the public and private sector, is to harmonize and realize a concept design of the hyperloop system (TRL 2) and to validate the subsystem technologies required for the development of transport systems in a low-pressure environment (TRL 4), defining a common roadmap for the integration of hyperloop technology into the Trans-European network.
A Giant Leap for Loop: Towards a harmonized implementable Hyperloop concept with Hyper4Rail
The EC-funded action CCAMbassador (Connected, Cooperative and Automated MoBility Assessment & Stakeholder Dedicated and Operational awareness Raising) complements the coordination and alignment efforts of the CCAM Partnership by expanding stakeholder engagement and knowledge sharing beyond R&I communities. CCAMbassador assists mobility solution implementers (e.g. infrastructure providers, transport service providers, local/regional authorities) in turning innovations into real service operations by identifying key building blocks for deployment and fostering cross-border collaboration and harmonised approaches.
The project also promotes and supports widespread adoption of the European Common Evaluation Methodology for CCAM (EU-CEM) and revises the EU-CEM Handbook to reflect the feedback collected from users. It strengthens the EU-wide Knowledge Base on CCAM to better fulfil the expectations and goals of society, and the needs of non-experts, citizens, local and national authorities, researchers and implementation actors.
Previous EU projects
SHared automation Operating models for Worldwide adoption
Urban traffic represents a serious challenge for European societies seeking effective and sustainable urban transport through technical solutions, business models and priority scenarios. The EU-funded SHOW project is realised by a consortium of 69 partners and applied in 20 European cities. It aims to estimate and evaluate the role of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in making urban transport more effective, sustainable and user friendly. The project will deploy a fleet of 74 AVs of all types including buses, taxis, MaaS connected automated cars and cargo vehicles for all transport users in both mixed traffic and dedicated lines operating under traffic speeds ranging from 18 to over 50km/h. The concept covers all urban automated mobility needs and all stakeholders’ demands.
Greening European Mobility through cascading innovation INItiatives
The Innovative Training Network (ITN) TOD-IS-RUR sets up an interdisciplinary, international and intersectoral network to make significant research contributions to the scientific and societal challenge of countering sprawl in Europe. The 9 Beneficiaries and 12 Partner Organizations create a unique platform for 10 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), providing cutting-edge training to analyze rural-urban place-making and develop novel, context-based planning schemes for rural-urban regions (RURs). The network aims to extend the concept of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) to RURs with a context-based approach, in which interactions between mobility and urbanization are studied in relation to social and environmental qualities. EPF will participate in training events and co-creation as a non-academic partner.
Safe Urban aiR mObility for euRopeAn citizens
As cities grow larger, they increasingly face problems caused by transport and traffic. Urban Air Mobility (UAM) offers a promising opportunity to mitigate road (surface) congestion by taking urban mobility to the third dimension – the airspace. The EU-funded project AURORA (sAfe Urban aiR mObility for euRopeAn citizens) will develop and integrate safety-critical technologies to support autonomous flight UAM in urban environments, focusing its demonstrations primarily on emergency-related applications. To foster adoption of UAM, AURORA will involve end-users and relevant stakeholders in all phases of its journey.
Inclusive Mobility – Public and Collaborative Trusted Spaces
IMPACTS aims towards a human-centric public transport system that prioritizes passenger safety, encourages mutual support as well as enhances mobility services and urban environment through feedback mechanisms. The project focuses on the development, implementation, testing and commercialization of connecting and reporting innovations in public transportation. IMPACTS also focuses on the bottom-up community-based innovations in existing critical urban mobility infrastructure that can have a dramatic impact on how we move in our cities.
umcase
Citizens inclusive and accessible urban mobility solutions
UMCASE is a one-year project, supported by EIT Urban Mobility. It focuses on providing cities a method to improve their transport solutions to make them better tailored to individual needs, and in particular those of vulnerable groups. This method is based on a design thinking approach that allows citizens, citizens’ representative organisations, relevant urban stakeholders, transport providers and businesses to work together during an intensive ideation cooperation. The UMCASE methodology and execution tutorial will be made available for cities, citizens, service providers and other stakeholders at the end of the project.
Inclusive digital mobility solutions
New transport products and services should be fully accessible. However, vulnerable groups such as older people, the disabled, ethnic minorities and the poor do not enjoy unrestricted access to those services due to gaps in the development of digital mobility solutions. The EU-funded INDIMO project will support researchers, operators and policymakers to review and integrate the user perspective in the entire design and deployment process of digital mobility solutions. The project deploys an inclusive digital mobility toolbox, which comprises a universal design manual, universal language interface icons, guidelines for cybersecurity and data protection as well as a policy evaluation tool.