09:00-10:00 Plenary session 3
This session will address the challenges linked to the resilience of transport systems. Transport systems can be subject to perturbation and deterioration due to climate change shocks, longer-term climate stresses and other disruptive events. They can also experience digital-related incidents (e.g. cybersecurity). Preparing transport systems resilience and making sure that they can adapt to disruption is crucial to ensure continuity of transport services and safety of passengers. This session will aim to provide examples and initiatives highlighting innovative solutions to reduce negative impacts of disruptive events on transport systems.
The session aims to find answers to the following questions: how can we adapt our transportation infrastructure to the effects of climate change? What kind of adaptation strategies do we need to make the whole system resilient? What are the main barriers to achieve this? How multimodal transportation companies and shippers respond to transport disruptions?
Keynote speaker:
Prof. Alan McKinnon, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Logistics, Kuehne Logistics University
Panelists:
Margarida Marques, European Coordinator, European Coordinator of the TEN-T Rhine-Danube corridor
Uroš Salobir, MSc, Director of the Strategic Innovation Department, ELES, d.o.o.
Dr. Ivan Jimenez Aira, Executive President, Bilbao Port Authority
Dr. Claudia Elif Stutz, Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport of Germany, State-Secretary for Transport
10:30-12:00 Strategic sessions
The EU’s reliance on material imports, the pressing need for improved resource productivity, and to reduce the carbon footprint are identified as critical issues that must be addressed. In response, the European Commission has introduced various strategies and regulations aimed at enhancing circularity including new battery regulations and proposals for stricter vehicle design and end-of-life management. Besides, collaboration across various sectors, including manufacturing, energy, finance, and waste management is required to achieve a true circular economy.
However, in their goal to embrace a Circular Economy approach, the European transport industries are facing challenges and boundaries and need to adopt new business models. The session will discuss advanced LCA and circular economy approaches for sustainable mobility solutions. Priorities for collaborative R&D will be discussed, as well as ideas for flagship projects to move Europe forward on its circularity ambition. This challenge is key for the competitiveness of transport industries and for the resources and technology sovereignty of Europe.
Moderator:
Thilo Bein (Fraunhofer)
Rapporteur:
Yanying Li (ALICE)
Speakers:
Anna Rossi (Forvia)
Hans Schurmans (Proximus)
Arthur-Hans Thellmann (Meyer Werft)
Andrea Gentili (DG RTD)
Klara Wittkowski (Airbus)
The session will explore how multimodal mobility services, for both passengers and goods, could connect better suburban and rural areas to city centres and urban multimodal passenger or freight hubs. The discussion will highlight the related challenges – e.g. low demand density and fragmented freight volumes, insufficient infrastructure and digital integration, planning at functional area level – while assessing the latest innovative solutions – e.g. public transport complemented by flexible transport services, shared mobility services and mobility on demand, light electric vehicles to railway stations, technological solutions to reach isolated territories such as drones, ferries or low cost rail-based solutions as well as asset and ride sharing services, logistics micro-hubs and cooperative models. Practitioners, local authority representatives and experts will present use cases and current practices, to identify also priorities for future research and innovation deployment.
Moderator:
Isabelle Vandoorne (DG MOVE)
Rapporteur:
Wolfgang Backhaus (Rupprecht Consult)
Speakers:
Judit Sándor (Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking)
Andrea Lorenzini (MemEx)
Manolis Koutoulakis (Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy)
Ricardo Herranz (Nommon)
Delphine Grandsart (European Passengers’ Federation)
14:00-15:30 Technical session 5
What makes Sail-Fast-Then-Wait strategy more attractive than Just-In-Time arrival? A simulation-based study – Anastasia Tsvetkova, Behrooz Khademi, Roberto Vettor and Md Wakilul Islam (submission number 59)
Effect of coordination among linear shipping companies on empty container reposition problem under demand uncertainty: A Stochastic Dynamic Programming Approach – Rikimaru Ikumoto, Tomoya Kawasaki, Daichi Watanabe and Yoshiyuki Fujiwara (submission number 139)
Digital Twin-Based Energy Profiling for Zero-Emission Inland Waterway Vessels – Florin Dimitrie Pǎcuraru, Sǎndița Pǎcuraru, Pauline Bernat and Charilaos Latinopoulos (submission number 309)
Shifting Freight from Road to Water: Mapping the innovation ecosystem for automated and zero-emission inland and coastal shipping – Javier Rivas and Jeanett Bolther (submission number 391)
Developing Harmonised Approaches to Port GHG Inventories: Framework Design and Use Case – Maurici Hervas Sotorres, Matteo Boschian-Cuch and Javier Garrido Salsas (submission number 741)
A Digital Twin Platform for Automated and Zero-Emission Inland Waterway Operations – Antonis Antonopoulos, Charis Latinopoulos, Pauline Bernat and Antonis Mygiakis (submission number 974)
Adaptive Centrality Measures and Machine Learning for Transport Network Vulnerability Assessment: A Case Study of Thessaloniki – Dimos Touloumidis, Michael Madas and Georgia Ayfantopoulou (submission number 110)
Rethinking Resilience: A Systems Approach to Modeling Public Transport Under Climate Stress – Keren-Or Grinberg Rosenbaum, Francisco Pereira, Bat-Hen Nahmias-Biran and Yoram Shiftan (submission number 322)
Resilience Without Borders: A Framework for Climate Resilient Port Ecosystems – Tanvi Anand, Kirsten Vanderplanken and Wouter Van Bockhaven (submission number 560)
Resilient Railways Facing Heavy Rains (RERA-Rain) – Concepción Toribio-Díaz, Pablo Vallhonrat Blanco and Konstantina Kopsalidou (submission number 721)
Operational Resilience of Road Systems when Disruptions Arise – Fatimah Yusuf, Liz Varga, Manu Sasidharan, Yuchun Tang and Shaolei Bai (submission number 1112)
Data-driven motorway traffic control during adverse weather conditions in Ireland – Robert Corbally, Ramin Ghiasi, Maha Riad, Daniel Pentony, Andrew O’Sullivan and Srijith Unni (submission number 1258)
16:00-17:30 Technical session 6
Improvements in rail traffic management systems (TMS) for more efficient operation of trains with connected driver advisory system (C-DAS) – Martin Joborn, Zohreh Ranjbar, Oskar Rune, Rebecka Haraldsson and Peter Olsson (submission number 247)
Assessing the L4 readiness of the corridor from Rotterdam-Oslo – Erlend Dahl, Petter Arnesen, Daniel Sander, Guus Arts, Håvard Bakke, Ola Martin Lykkja, Per Hallgren and Wen Xu (submission number 618)
Advancing C-ITS Deployments in Hungary: Paving the Way for Day 2+ Services – Tamás Attila Tomaschek, Róbert Péter Tóth, András Mihály Selmeczy, László Bokor, Gergely Attila Kovács, Dohyeon Kim, Seulbin Hong, Dongmin Lee and Seunghyeon Lee (submission number 625)
Integrated Assessment Framework for Enhanced C-ITS Services Using Real-Time Queue-Length Variables in Virtual Environments – Dohyeon Kim, Seulbin Hong, Dongmin Lee, Bokor László, Seunghyeon Lee and Sooncheon Hwang (submission number 636)
V2I-based Real-Time Lane Deviation Handling for Automated Vehicles to Face Road Characteristics Changes – David Yagüe Cuevas, Carlos Castellanos-Ormeño, Felipe Jimenez Alonso, Pablo Marín Plaza, José Eugenio Naranjo, Mario Pérez, Araceli Sanchis de Miguel, María Paz Sesmero Lorente and José María Armingol (submission number 1015)
Cutting-edge Smart Road Section on the Hungarian M1-M7 Motorway: The Real-Time Digital Twin – András Rövid, Mihály Csonthó, Zsolt Vincze, Márton Cserni, Szabolcs Nagy and Zsolt Szalay (submission number 1108)
Age-Specific Accessibility Profiles for Last-Mile Delivery: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of Leipzig’s Urban Outskirts – Viola Süß, André Ludwig, Benjamin Gaunitz and Bogdan Franczyk (submission number 221)
Barriers and Facilitators of Multistakeholder Collaboration in Urban Living Labs: A Case Study of DECARBOMILE – Isabella Hauswald, Amalia Giannakopoulou, Katharina Beck, Jutta Wolf, Heike Flämig, Fabian Fermazin and Isabel Froes (submission number 544)
Evaluating Micro-Fulfillment Centers for Sustainable Urban Last-Mile Delivery: A Case Study of Budapest, Hungary – Sanggyun Kang, Minji Kim and Krisztián Bóna (submission number 661)
Complementarity for Consolidation: Unlocking efficiency for smarter city logistics – Carlos Granada, Joris Beckers and Thierry Vanelslander (submission number 701)
Selection of the best locations for micro-consolidation centers for a city logistics pilot in Budapest – Kinga Lőcsei-Tóth, Gergő Vass, Dávid Lajos Sárdi, Krisztián Bóna, Aletta Büki, Tamás Strang, Zalán Tiborc Uglik and Bálint Herbert (submission number 1045)
A Dynamic Pricing Framework for Last-Mile Logistics: Design, Implementation, and Pilot in Belgium – Ioannis Tsouros and Athena Tsirimpa (submission number 1225)
A harmonised transport-specific LCA approach – Final results of the CSA TranSensus LCA – Thilo Bein, Felipe Cerdas, Nikolas Hill, Christian Junestedt, Gladys Moreac-Njeim, Anh-Linh Buivan, Mara Neef, Marina Simon, Diana Bartaune, Guido Sonnemann and Takunda-Yeukai Chitaka (submission number 294)
Standardizing GHG Emission Factors: A Critical Review and Gap Analysis – Bruna Rodrigues, Mehul Khandelwal, Alan Lewis, Nabil Abdalla, Kirsten Biemann, Stylianos Doulgeris, Giorgos Mellios and Nigel Jones (submission number 438)
Introducing circularity in public transport for greater sustainability: From strategy to action – Laura Lopez, Gabriele Grea, Danijel Hojski and Joseph Paul (submission number 615)
Operational tools for assessing environmental impacts and benefits in linear infrastructure: a systematic review – Carlos Morillas, Rodrigo Gil, Sergio Alvarez, Sara Martinez, Pinar Yilmazer and Lorenzo Franzoni (submission number 1013)
Public Transport Digitalization: Leveraging AI and Digital Twins for Smarter Urban Mobility Management – Jan Röhl, Conrad Jentzsch and Marta Woronowicz (submission number 1197)
Delays, dependencies, and development: Exploring circular aggregate use through the lens of lateness of action in Swedish construction – Linnea Eriksson, Anna Fredriksson and Mats Janné (submission number 1217)
Special sessions
CCAM remains mostly pilot-based in Europe, with limited deployment beyond a few leading cities. Barriers persist around regulation, safety, business models, and public trust, especially in smaller municipalities lacking capacity, resources, and guidance. To avoid fragmentation, deployment should build on shared building blocks: vehicle technologies, physical and digital infrastructure, sustainable business approaches, and operations integrated into existing mobility systems. Equally important are societal acceptance, workforce skills, and clear regulatory frameworks supported by testing and demonstration. The session will open with a short framing presentation on the building‑blocks exercise and the city roadmap for CCAM deployment, followed by a panel discussion with a city, a Public Transport Agency, the European Commission, and an industry or operator perspective.
The session will allow to take stock of their numerous success stories and demonstrators of large airport and port projects (for example H2 powered tow tractor in Schiphol airport; automated shuttle in Brussels airport; Biodiversity enhancement in Paris airport; Novel H2 powered reach stackers in port of Antwerp; smart management of energy of terminals in port of Antwerp, etc.). In addition, the session will be used to present the strategic plans for the twin transitions (greening and digitalization) developed by the 5 projects and to explain how the replication of those strategic plans is being done across EU. Furthermore, the session will showcase how the twin transitions (greening and digitalization) are materializing in EU airports and ports and will link these transitions with the competitiveness of these transport nodes. Finally, the follow-up actions in terms of funding, innovation and policy development will be discussed.