Call: Potential of the Physical Internet

1. Excellent Science
2. Industrial Leadership
3. Societal Challenges

Within this programme Horizon 2020 will provide funding for a resource efficient transport that respects the environment, aims at a better mobility, less congestion, more safety and security, supports a global leadership for the European transport industry and targets a socio-economic and behavioural research and forward looking activities for policy making.

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.

Specific topics for the calls:

• Reducing energy consumption and environmental impact of aviation
• Reducing aviation noise
• Maintaining industrial leadership in aeronautics
• Breakthrough innovation
• Identification of gaps, barriers and needs in the aviation research
• Innovation for energy efficiency and emission control in waterborne transport
• Development, production and use of high performance and lightweight materials for vessels and equipment
• New and improved transport concepts in waterborne transport
• Complex and value-added specialised vessels
• Addressing aviation safety challenges
• Protection of all road users in crashes
• Safer waterborne transport and maritime operations
• Transport infrastructure innovation to increase the transport system safety at modal and intermodal level (including nodes and interchanges)
• Behavioural aspects for safer transport
• Euro-African initiative on road safety and traffic management
• Increasing the take up and scale-up of innovative solutions to achieve sustainable mobility in urban areas
• Supporting 'smart electric mobility' in cities
• Innovative approaches for integrating urban nodes in the TEN-T core network corridors
• Facilitating public procurement of innovative sustainable transport and mobility solutions in urban areas
• New ways of supporting development and implementation of neighbourhood-level and urban-district-level transport innovations
• Networked and efficient logistics clusters
• Innovative ICT solutions for future logistics operations
• Promoting the deployment of green transport, towards Eco-labels for logistics
• Potential of the Physical Internet
• Innovative concepts, systems and services towards 'mobility as a service'
• Large-scale demonstration(s) of cooperative ITS
• Roadmap, new business models, awareness raising, support and incentives for the roll-out of ITS
• Resilience to extreme (natural and man-made) events
• Optimisation of transport infrastructure including terminals
• The Port of the future
• Research, technology development and market trends for the European transport manufacturing industries
• Big data in Transport: Research opportunities, challenges and limitations
• Assessing future requirements for skills and jobs across transport modes and systems
• Improving accessibility, inlcusive mobility and equity: new tools and business models for public transport in prioritised areas
• Shifting paradigms: Exploring the dynamics of individual preferences, behaviours and lifestyles influencing travel and mobility choices
• Innovation awards for students and researchers in the context of the Transport Research Arena conference - TRA 2018

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between 2 to 3 million € each for Research and Innovation Actions, and between  0.5 to 1 million € for Coordination and Support Actions would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. Funding rate: 100%

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