Working Group Urban Mobility

The ECTRI Working Group on Urban Mobility has been created in 2004, further to INRETS initiative, with the following aims:

To prepare by May 2005, as first action, a Strategic Research Agenda on Urban Transport Mobility to be presented at first place at the 56th UITP World Congress and Mobility and City Transport Exhibition at Rome in June 2005

To define a working programme in this area for actions at short, medium and long terms

To propose some common reflections about research needs in urban mobility to European, National and Regional Institutions.

The Working Group is currently composed of :

DVS: Henk Pauwels
CDV: Vaclav Fencl & Ivan Fencl
CEDEX: Miguel Mateos
CNTK: Andrzej Massel
DLR: Prof. Barbara Lenz (rapporteur) & Claudia Nobis
DTF: Henrik Gudmunsson
FHG: Ulf Jung & Werner Schonewolf
HIT: Dr Yannis Tyrinopoulos & Maria Morfoulaki
INRETS: Claire Niclause (moderator), Claude Soulas, Alain Lhostis & Sandra Bozzani
POLITO: Prof. Cristina Pronello & Marco Diana
TØI: Frode Longva
TRL: Neil Paulley
TTEF: Prof. Jadranka Jovic
UPM: José Manuel Mera & Rocio Cascajo
VGTU-TMI: Prof. Algirdas Jurkauskas & Dalia Susniene
VTI: Bertil Hylen & Tomas Svensson
VTT: Marja Rosenberg

The first action of the WG was the preparation of URBAMOVE – Urban Mobility Initiative – issued in June 2005, which proposes a Strategic Research Agenda for Urban Mobility in the European Union.

After the URBAMOVE publication, the WG experts have been invited to participate in the EURFORUM (European Research Forum for Urban Mobility) project. This FP6 project is a Coordination Action funded by the EC and coordinated by UITP; besides ECTRI, the 5 other partners involved are the Technical University Dresden, CERTU, ASSTRA, POLIS, and EMTA.

At last, the WG has recently prepared an input to the EC green paper on Urban Transport.