Objective
European cities face four main mobility problems: congestion, land use , safety and environment. One of the main causes of such problems is the car-ownership rate. The centres of large cities address this issue combining efficient mass transits with car restriction policies but peripheral areas and smaller cities remain dominated by private cars.
CityMobil has demonstrated how automating road vehicles can lead to different transport concepts, from partly automated car-share schemes through CyberCars and PRT, to BRT which can make urban mobility more sustainable.
However CityMobil has also highlighted three main barriers to the deployment of automated road vehicles: the implementation framework, the legal framework and the unknown wider economic effect.
The CityMobil2 goal is to address these barriers and finally to remove them.
To smooth the implementation process CityMobil2 will remove the uncertainties which presently hamper procurement and implementation of automated systems. On one hand CityMobil2 features 12 cities which will revise their mobility plans and adopt wherever they will prove effective automated transport systems. Then CityMobil2 will select the best 5 cases (among the 12 cities) to organise demonstrators. The project will procure two sets of automated vehicles and deliver them to the five most motivated cities for a 6 to 8 months demonstration in each city.
To change the legal framework CityMobil2 will establish a workgroup with scientists, system builders, cities, and the national certification authorities. The workgroup will to deliver a proposal for a European Directive to set a common legal framework to certify automated transport systems.
Finally an industrial study will assess the industrial potential of automated systems on European economy and any eventual negative effect and make a balance of them.
Call for proposal
FP7-SST-2012-RTD-1
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Funding Scheme
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50121 Florence
Italy
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Participants (47)
78153 Le Chesnay Cedex
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SO17 1BJ Southampton
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1001 LAUSANNE
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1050 BRUXELLES
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00187 Roma
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LS2 9JT Leeds
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51147 Koln
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3030-199 Coimbra
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89127 REGGIO CALABRIA
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00184 ROMA
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1025 SAINT SULPICE
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1015 Lausanne
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24192 LEON
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28850 Torrejon De Ardoz Madrid
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06600 ANTIBES
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01300 Vantaa
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01510 VANTAA
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00520 HELSINKI
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00520 HELSINKI
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00520 Helsinki
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00920 Helsinki
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1060 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1130 Bruxelles / Brussel
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17086 La Rochelle
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24071 León
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1700 La Rochelle
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75001 PARIS
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17000 LA ROCHELLE
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421 00 TRIKALA
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106 82 ATHINA
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09170 ORISTANO
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20121 Milan
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09129 CAGLIARI
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40121 Bologna
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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28050 MADRID
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1211 Meyrin
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20121 Milano
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09045 QUARTU SANT'ELENA
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3543 AE UTRECHT
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64210 Bidart
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78290 CROISSY SUR SEINE
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1119 NC SCHIPHOL-RIJK
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43124 Parma
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03200 ABREST
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00185 Roma
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