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 in 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 40 experts from 22 institutes, as following:

AIT: Norbert Braendle
CDV: Vaclav Fencl
CEDEX: Eva Ruiz-Ayucar
CENIT: Francesc Robusté & Francesc Soriguera
CNTK: Andrzej Massel
DLR: Prof. Barbara Lenz (rapporteur) & Claudia Nobis
DTU: Henrik Gudmunsson
DVS: Henk Pauwels
FHG: Ulf Jung, Dietrich Schmidt, Thilo Beindt & Werner Schonewolf
HIT: Dr Yannis Tyrinopoulos & Maria Morfoulaki
INRETS: Nadine Mordant (moderator), Claude Soulas, Alain Lhostis, Sandra Bozzani & Anne Aguilera
POLITO: Prof. Cristina Pronello, Luca Chiaretta & Valentina Rappazzo
TØI: Frode Longva & Nils Fearnley
TRL: Neil Paulley
TTEF: Prof. Jadranka Jovic
TTI: Prof. Igor Kabashkin & Prof. Irina Yatskiv
UPM: José Manuel Mera & Rocio Cascajo
VGTU-TMI: Jurgita Barysine & Andrius Jarzemskis
VTI: Bertil Hylen, Tomas Svensson & Kerstin Robertson
VTT: Tuuli Jarvi

The objectives of this TWG:

- preparation of a strategic research agenda (SRA) on urban mobility & definition of a working program in this field,
- proposal of common reflections about research needs in urban mobility to European, national and regional institutions

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 was a Coordination Action funded by the EC and coordinated by UITP; besides ECTRI, the 5 other partners involved were the Technical University Dresden, CERTU, ASSTRA, POLIS, and EMTA. EURFORUM’s Strategic Research Agenda addressed research issues in the particular field of urban transport considering all transport modes and focusing on intermodality for both passenger and freight transport. Technology-oriented as well as policy-oriented research was considered. The focus was directed on urban issues, including the transport between an agglomeration and its surroundings. EURFORUM’s SRA relied on the conviction that holistic and interdisciplinary research is the most adequate approach to solve the problems identified in the area of urban transport.

The TWG A has prepared an input to the EC green paper on Urban Transport in April 2007, and lastly, this group also released in March 2008 a positon paper on EC Green paper "Towards a new urban mobility culture".