We welcome all the readers to the 8th edition of our newsletter. The EU-funded FRONTIER project promises to bring driverless cars, cutting-edge traffic management and reduced transport emissions to Europe's citizens. Visit the website here: www.frontier-project.eu |
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A new vision of transportA new vision of transport is emerging in Europe. A greater choice of transport options, self-driving cars, shared car rides, more eco-friendly vehicles, combined transport options (multimodality), and a much more integrated transport model overall promises to make the continent a global leader in the field. In a world where the population is growing and increased transport can negatively affect climate change, traffic management will play a very crucial role in overcoming transport-related risks and challenges. Against this backdrop, the EU-funded FRONTIER project, which was launched on 1 May 2021, brings together 19 high-profile partners from all over Europe, namely Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK, to empower a seamless transition to a new era in transport management. |
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Discover FRONTIERFRONTIER aims to provide the network and integrated traffic management strategies of the future. It is taking into account new types of transport-automated vehicles that promise to minimise pollution and capacity bottlenecks, reduce accidents, and decrease the cost of mobility for all users (citizens, public authorities and businesses). FRONTIER is facilitating the transition towards resilient multimodal autonomous mobility by establishing the processes of collaboration and arbitration among stakeholders. It is developing the business models that will address the commercial viability of the identified solutions. FRONTIER develops, applies and tests autonomous management systems, based on advanced designs, that will constantly evolve using data generated from real-time monitoring of the transport system. This includes knowledge generated by operators and decision-makers, as well as simulation models and solutions that will lead to new mobility services and technologies. |
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 | The role of public transport during major events When major events occur, from concerts to emergencies, the capacity and availability of public transport become crucial in managing large crowds and ensuring safety. High-density areas especially stand to benefit from effective public transportation systems that can reduce congestion and provide safe, efficient travel options. Read more |
 | Embarking on the path to smarter, user-centric traffic management: The FRONTIER App In a world where technology and mobility are increasingly intertwined, the FRONTIER project, funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 program, is revolutionising traffic management. Building on the groundbreaking network and traffic management strategies introduced through the FRONTIER Dashboard, we're now proud to introduce the FRONTIER mobile app – named 'Citynaut'. Read more |
 | Standardisation of entities for an efficient data exchange The data availability is a major issue to develop artificial intelligence (AI) tools. On top of that, aside from the availability, the same data entity (i.e. traffic average speed and traffic flow) can be tagged and represented in many different ways. Read more |
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 | Traffic predictions for efficient network management The FRONTIER project has developed an Autonomous Network Management Engine (ANTME) to improve multistakeholder collaboration for a more efficient traffic management. This is done by providing real-time data, automatic response plans generation for specific types of incidents/events, and suitable arbitration models to find agreements among the different operators. Read more |
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Lunch and Learn Session - Multimodal and Resilient Traffic Management of the FutureWe were excited to welcome more than 80 participants at the beautiful space of the RDS Concert Hall interested to learn how multimodal traffic management solutions will facilitate more efficient, resilient and sustainable transport. Representing the final event of two EU-funded projects, FRONTIER and ORCHESTRA, the session unveiled the projects’ results and demonstrate solutions emerging from three years’ worth of cutting-edge R&I activities. The event was organised as a Lunch and Learn Session of the Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2024 on Thursday, April 18, 2024 in Dublin, Ireland. FRONTIER experts from EURECAT (EUT), ICCS, Frontier Innovations (FI), the University of Wolverhampton (UoW), the Oxford County Council (OCC), Arcadis IBI and the International Road Federation (IRF) presented and demonstrated the project's major results, highlighting their importance for addressing the traffic-related challenges in the transport field in Europe. The FRONTIER platform known as the Autonomous Network and Traffic Management Engine or ANTME, which has successfully revolutionised traffic control by handling traffic incidents across different modes of transport, was demonstrated to the audience detailing its major components and functions. The views of the stakeholders' who already successfully tested the platform in one of the FRONTIER's pilots (in the Oxfordshire) were also shared with the event's participants. The latest FRONTIER Factsheet, produced by the Dissemination and Communication leader of the project, Netcompany-Intrasoft, with the support of ICCS, UoW, FI and EUT, and presenting the ANTME platform and its major components was distributed to the participants (download it here). High-level experts from ongoing innovative projects of the Multimodal Traffic Management Cluster (MTMC) shared their insights and vision related to the future of traffic management in interactive Panel discussions moderated by Georgia Gkioka (FRONTIER - ICCS, Greece) and Trond Hovland (ORCHESTRA - ITS-Norway). Through these interestingl dialogues, the Panelist uncovered the concepts and results of the finishing Horizon 2020 projects, FRONTIER, ORCHESTRA, DIT4TRAM and TANGENT, but also helped to dive into the scope and challenges of the new MTMC Horizon Europe projects, SYNCHROMODE and DELPHI. FRONTIER was represented by its Scientific and Technical Coordinator Prof. Panos Georgakis (University of Wolverhampton). The Final Event was moderated by the two projects' coordinators, Fanny Breuil Aymami (FRONTIER - EURECAT) and Runar Søråsen (ORCHESTRA - ITS-Norway). The EC Project Officer Mr Thiago Tavares, CINEA, closed the event with inspiring speech. Thanks to the insightful presentations and valuable Panel discussions the Final event of FRONTIER and ORCHESTRA Horizon 2020 projects provided a deep dive into the latest research results, innovations and disruptive technologies within the rapidly evolving field of multimodal traffic management! |
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The Transport Research Arena (TRA) is the largest transport and mobility research and innovation (R&I) conference in Europe. TRA 2024 is taking place on 15-18 April in Dublin, Ireland. Under the overarching theme of “Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility”, TRA will cover all modes of transport: road, rail, waterborne, aviation, and cross-modal aspects. It will include a broad spectrum of R&I activities, ranging from basic research to application-oriented engineering, social, technical and economic aspects, as well as policies and standards. Organised every two years, TRA is the foremost European transport event that covers all transport modes and all aspects of mobility. This year, around 4,000 participants travelled to Dublin for #TRA2024. TRA gathers stakeholders from all transport networks (road, rail, waterborne and aviation). The event offers a great venue for researchers, decision- and policy-makers, and industry representatives to get together and contribute to the discussion on how R&I can reshape the transport and mobility system. It provides a unique opportunity to hear about mobility trends and challenges in different parts of Europe, learn from achievements in industry, as well as share best practices of policies and deployments. FRONTIER was thrilled to be a part of this largest European research and technology conference on transport and mobility sharing the significant results of its 3-year work with the researchers, policy makers and industry representatives in the transport area. FRONTIER proudly had its Final Event, co-organised with the "sister" ORCHESTRA Horizon 2020 project, at the TRA 2024 on 18/04 1:30-3:30 PM hosted in a uniquely beautiful RDS Concert Hall! The event was organised as a Lunch and Learn Session: Multimodal and Resilient Traffic Management of the Future. Our experts presented the work done in the project in the following sessions: - AI and data-driven approach for next generation traffic management to be presented by Georgia Gkioka, ICCS – Technical Session 4.1.2 AI and Machine Learning (Wednesday, 17 April 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM) - Accelerating Cross-Stakeholder Collaboration with Modern Traffic Management Systems and Strategies to be presented by Antulio Richetta, Arcadis IBI Group – Technical Session 2.1.7 Traffic Management & Control (Tuesday, 16 April 9:45 AM – 11:00 AM) Last but not least, FRONTIER shared a stand with the Multimodal Traffic Management Cluster Horizon 2020 projects (ORCHESTRA, TANGENT, DIT4TraM, ACUMEN, SYNCHROMODE and DELPHI). Our experts were there to welcome all the interested participants, to demonstrate and discuss the FRONTIER's concepts and results. For more information about the #TRA2024 visit https://traconference.eu |
FRONTIER has been presented during the keynote at the International Road Federation (IRF) General Assembly on 17 April 2024. The FRONTIER partner Frontier innovations explained and demonstrated the ANTME Platform and its main components to the IRF members representing leading corporate and institutional players drawn from the road and mobility sectors worldwide. The General Assembly gathered more than 80 representatives (in-person and online) of public and private bodies in the road transport sector including government ministries and agencies, road construction companies, transport service providers, equipment manufacturers, consulting companies, industry-related associations and national road federations, universities, multilateral financial institutions and other. |
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The FRONTIER TeamFRONTIER is bringing together partners from five universities and research institutes, nine companies, and five transport authorities from all over Europe, namely Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK, to empower a seamless transition towards a new era in transport management. This consortium boasts a multidisciplinary team of academics, traffic and transport operators, local authorities, traffic management companies, intelligent transport systems and autonomous vehicle solutions. It includes partners from several universities and research institutes, as well as companies, organisations and authorities in transport, infrastructure and information technology providers.
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| This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N°955317 |
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