MAGPIE: Navigating to clean and smart logistics to, from and in ports – Maarten Flikkema, Maaike Dalhuisen, Gunnar Platz, Reyer Will, Zenaida Mourao, Andre Lisboa, Martijn Streng, Larissa van der Lugy, Caya Hein and Arne-Jan Polman (submission number 416)
Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies of Port Logistics in the Face of Climate Change –
Andreas Mohr, Shubhangi Gupta, Yann Kinkel, Ann-Kathrin Lange and Carlos Jahn (submission number 444)
Just transition: (un)foreseen impact in shipping –
Jurrit Bergsma and Michiel Zult (submission number 453)
Advancing Multimodal Freight Automation Through Digital Twins and Decision Support: The AUTOSUP Framework –
Ilias Gkotsis, Dirk Staelens, Giuseppe Luppino, Luca Lucietti, Stephane Kundig, Aristea Zafeiropoulou and Ioanna Fergadiotou (submission number 787)
Road, rail and waterway freight traffic interactions at German trimodal hubs –
Vigile Marie Fabella, Lisa May and Philipp Parche (submission number 1155)
From tracking to shifting: using truck GPS data to assess modal shift in port-hinterland transport –
Emma Ceulemans and Edwin van Hassel (submission number 1349)
The European Union is closely looking at its industry competitiveness as a key policy focus. For the mobility sector, this is particularly true in the context of the digital and green transitions. The “Competitiveness Compass” and the “Clean Industrial Deal” are key initiatives aimed at bolstering the EU’s industrial strength, addressing challenges like high energy costs, supply chain vulnerabilities, and the need for innovation. The aim of this session is to bring together leading figures from Europe’s transport industry to discuss the enabling conditions needed to support the sector’s transition – and that of its value chain – toward cleaner and smarter mobility.
The Industrial Round Table will examine how the European industry can establish a direction for progress leading up to 2030 and onward to 2050. The discussion should mainly focus on 3 questions: What is the status of Europe’s global leadership in the transport and mobility sector? How can research and innovation enhance the competitiveness of the sector? What are industry representatives’ expectations vis-à-vis the EU’s research and innovation activities for the sector in view of the next EU Framework Programme for R&I?
Speakers:
Carole Desnost, Director of Technologies, Innovation and Group Projets, SNCF
Dr. Gunnar Stiesch, Chief Technology Officer, Everllence
Jens Holtinger, Executive Vice President, Volvo Group’s Trucks Technology & Industrial Division
The session will explore the governance in transport R&I and the instruments that can boost the EU’s innovation capacities. It will look at the full innovation journey from fundamental research to market deployment and scale-up, analysing best practices of current instruments such as Horizon Europe and the Innovation Fund. It will discuss upcoming instruments in the next MFF with FP10 and the Competitiveness fund. It will also examine the current challenges faced by the EU alongside its innovation chains.
This session aims to find answers to the following questions: how can we address current challenges linked to transport R&I in the EU in both the short and long term? Which governance models are best to deliver on future of transport R&I? How can we tackle the gap between the fundamental research and deployment?
Keynote speaker:
Roland Jakab, Chief Executive Office, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network
Panelists:
Dr. Maja Novakovic, Chair, Waterborne Technology Platform
Giorgio Travaini, Executive Director, Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking
Prof. Dr. Meike Jipp, Divisional Board Member for Energy and Transport, German Aerospace Centre (DLR)
Ms. Helene Niklasson, Chair, EUCAR
ALICE Theatre 15:00 – 15:30 presenation by the DECARMOBILE project (ALICE stand, Hall G – D14)
A method to evaluate the logistics performance in automated waterborne transport and logistics cases – Cyril Alias, Anastasiya Azarko, Vladislav Maraš, Antonio Invito, Angeliki Stouraiti, Jonas Zum Felde, Vasileios C. Podimatas and Harilaos N. Psaraftis (submission number 45)
Accelerating data-driven systemic transition in urban logistics at four Living Labs: lessons from the DISCO Project – Florian Herrmann, Andrei Turlea, Lorenzo Cello, Paola Astegiano and Paola Cossu (submission number 151)
U-ELCOME: U-space services for safe and efficient drone operations in Europe – Giovanni Riccardi, Rodrigo Benedit Pascual and Patricia Hervías Vallejo (submission number 243)
Strategic Challenges, Opportunities and Enablers of Efficient Regional Collaborative Logistics – Riccardo Maratini, Giuseppe Luppino, Luca Simone, Lorenzo Cello, Fahad Anwar, Ines Pentek and Tomislav Letnik (submission number 784)
Collaborative Innovation for Intelligent, Zero-Emission and Intermodal Freight Transport & Logistics – Elisabete Arsenio, João Tiago Aparicio, Gabriel Dias and Marluci Menezes (submission number 1445)
A Roadmap for the Transition to Automation in Rail Freight Shunting Yards – Cristiana Piccioni, Riccardo Licciardello, Cristiano Marinacci, Miad Farokhsiar and Stefano Ricci (submission number 1510)
Mainstreaming rural mobility in sustainable urban mobility planning: a framework for rural-proofed SUMPs – André Freitas and Daniela Carvalho (submission number 28)
Enabling Maritime Digital Transformation through Data Harmonisation and Interoperability: Implementation of the EMSWe Regulation – Lorena Saez, Miguel Llop, Jorge Feliu, Ana Palanca, Ángel Laguna and Jaime Luezas (submission number 634)
Building Trust in Artificial Intelligence: A necessity for Railway applications – Clément Lefebvre, Vincent Lébé, Ricardo Mario Da Silva Ribeiro Pereira, Johan Sundell, Arnaud Jaoul, Kenza Saiah and Nenad Mijatovic (submission number 1032)
Assessment and alignment of Just-in-Time and Port Call Optimisation standardisation initiatives at international level – Gonzalo Sandiás Corbillón, José Andrés Giménez and Gabriel Ferrús (submission number 1405)
Toward a User-Centered Privacy Framework for Transport Data Sharing: A design framework for Trust, Control, and Participation – Karen Valitov, Soora Rasouli and Melvin Wong (submission number 1406)
CCAM-readiness assessment and strategic planning – Daniel Franco and Dr. Wolfgang Backhaus (submission number 1525)
In an international context marked by a global race for resources needed for the green transition, this session will focus on the competitiveness of European clean technologies. In a global context, it will explore the challenges that the EU faces to maintain its leadership in the development, manufacturing and deployment of these technologies. The session will look at the EU’s competitive strengths in comparison to other international players and highlight where European efforts should focus to maintain global competitive leadership in transport technologies, taking also into account the specific challenges faced by SMEs and start/scale-ups. The session will also look at best practices from other international players on clean tech competitiveness and whether they can be reproduced at EU level.
This session aims to find answers to the following questions: how can Europe regain or maintain leadership by focusing more on competitiveness? What is the added value of involving third countries into European research programs? How to maintain the European strategic autonomy, technology sovereignty and reduce dependencies from third countries?
Keynote speaker:
Glenn Schmidt, Vice President Global Sustainability, BMW Group
Panelists:
Alberto Maestrini, Chairman, SEA Europe and the VARD group
Magda Kopczyńska, Director-General for Mobility and Transport European Commission
Axel Krein, Executive Director, Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking
Doris Martetschläger, Supply Chain Operations Manager, IKEA supply AG
09:00-12:00 KEYSTONE Final Event at TRA 2026 (Room G15-G16)
14:00-15:30 Technical session 3
VRP meets Inland Waterway Transport: Predictive Routing for Zero-emission Vessels – Pauline Bernat and Charilaos Latinopoulos (submission number 301)
A Hierarchical Routing Strategy for Seamless Electric Vehicle Charging Service Using Autonomous Mobile Charging Robots – Jeong Seomun, Seunghyeon Lee and Jihye Byun (submission number 502)
Seamless Urban Mobility: A Multi-Modal Reservation Framework – Christos Makridis, Charalambos Menelaou, Stelios Timotheou and Christos G. Panayiotou (submission number 788)
From the Stations to the Surroundings: How Transfer Environment Shapes Public Transport Route Choices – Marianthi Kallidoni, Jesper Bláfoss Ingvardson and Otto Anker Nielsen (submission number 903)
The Price of Silence: Exploring Time and Distance Trade-Offs in Traffic Noise Exposure Aware Routing – Peter Nezval and Gyözö Gidofalvi (submission number 1427)
A Three-Phase Communication Strategy for Seamless Integration of Mobility-on-Demand and Public Transport – Chenhao Ding, Florian Dandl and Klaus Bogenberger (submission number 1452)
Special session
The 2Zero and CCAM Partnerships have been key tools to plan and coordinate European collaborative R&D in the field of electrification and automation of road transport: this session will discuss their main achievements in Horizon Europe and their potential evolution in the next EU framework programme for 2028-2034. A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between these two Partnerships, the Partnership on Batteries, and the European Commission, to further coordinate the European R&D efforts. The objective is to accelerate the transition of road mobility into electrification and automation by exploiting research results further into implementation. One option for the future is the setup of a new Joint Undertaking, which would support the competitiveness of the European automotive industry.
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
ALICE Theatre (ALICE stand, Hall G – D14)
13:00 – 17:00 ReMuNet and SARIL Final Event at TRA 2026
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)
ALICE Theatre (ALICE stand, Hall G – D14)
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)
Special session
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.
09:00-10:00 Plenary session 4
Digitalisation of the transport sector is key to improve the efficiency, safety and sustainability of our transport systems. This involves automating processes in transport and production, enhancing connectivity and leveraging data analytics for better decision-making. Digitalisation impacts various aspects of our transport systems, including transportation infrastructure, logistics, mobility and the role of people. It has the potential to lead to new business models, improved traffic management, increased efficiency in operations and reduced environmental impact. This session will focus on the use of AI in the broader system, automation, cybersecurity and data spaces. The session will also explore the disruptive potential of digital technologies such as quantum computing.
The session aims to find answer to the following questions: what are the next big advancements in transport digitalisation? How to address the fast-paced changes brought by digitalisation and make sure they best serve the EU’s transportation system? How to certify AI for mission-critical applications? How can digitalisation support mobility management and law enforcement and what are the barriers of cybersecurity? Which fundamentals will be transformed in the system in terms of use of infrastructure, resilience and competitiveness?
Panelist:
Paola Cossu, CEO at Fit Consulting & Member of the Board of Directors at ALICE, TRA Vision 2024 winner
Stephane Petti, PhD, Principal Advisor, European Innovation Council Fund
Rugilė Andziukevičiūtė-Buzė, Managing Director, Transport Innovation Association Lithuania
Andreas Boschen, Executive Director, SESAR Joint Undertaking
10:30-12:00 Strategic session
Automation and connectivity have the potential to transform and bring major benefits to the transport of people and goods in Europe, improving safety, sustainability, capacity and inclusiveness. The session will discuss the challenges and opportunities of integrating efficiently automated vehicles into the transport system from both the technical and the socio-economic perspective, including the offer of new mobility services to users. Cross-sector and cross-modal collaboration with road, rail, air and waterborne transport will be addressed, as well as supporting concrete steps for large-scale implementation and deployment. Experience from the CCAM Partnership and Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking will be shared, alongside insights from related partnerships and initiatives, to explore how large-scale implementation can be supported across all modes. Panelists will discuss the next actions to be taken at EU level to make connected and automated mobility a reality for European citizens.
Moderator:
Karen Vancluysen (POLIS)
Rapporteur:
Peter Urban (RWTH Aachen University)
Speakers:
Christian Merkt (BMW)
Walter Struckl (Siemens Mobility)
Chrystelle Damar (SESAR JU)
Pieter Huyskens (Damen)
Pia Wijk (Einride)
Marzena Jougounoux (DG RTD)
15:30 – 17:00 Technical session 7
Rail-Enabled Last Mile: Simulating Parcel Flows via Urban Metro Networks for Carbon-Smart Logistics – Zisis Maleas, Georgia Ayfantopoulou, Sofoklis Dais, Pavlos Giannakou and Katerina Batzou (submission number 102)
Empirical evaluation of a simple matchmaking algorithm for freight carriers – Lorant Tavasszy, Michiel De Bok, Mahnam Saeednia, Merve Cebeci, Tangzhe Chen and Ron Van Duin (submission number 282)
A Modern and Sustainable Rail-Enabled Urban Logistics System and its Economic Evaluation – Dominic Kwakye Ampong, Libor Švadlenka, Molková Tatiana and Libor Bauer (submission number 1049)
Information Flow Modelling for Automated Freight Port Operations: Insights from Two Case Studies in Europe – Arkadiusz Drabicki, Filippos Adamidis, Ramandeep Singh, Karen Van Brussel, Dirk Staelens, Marco Mazzarino and Constantinos Antoniou (submission number 1495)
GREEN-LOG Logistics as a Service Marketplace: A policy-aligned marketplace for Sustainable Last-Mile Operations – Babis Magoutas, Amalia Bozinaki, Ioannis Tsouros, Francesca D’Alessandro, Joris Beckers, Panos Georgakis, Athena Tsirimpa, Konstantinos Barbopoulos and Vivian Kiousi (submission number 1509)
Agent-Based Simulation for Meal Micro-Delivery Services: Modeling, Simulation, and Dispatch Strategy Evaluation – Serkan Ozdemir, Lampros Yfantis, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Rodriguez Correia and Shadi Sharif Azadeh (submission number 1570)
Levelling the Playing Field in EU Road Haulage: Enforcement Challenges and Early Lessons from Mobility Package I – Feyisayo Lari-Williams, Wouter Verheyen, Tim Breemersch and Bruno Van Zeebroeck (submission number 420)
Regulatory Divergence in Autonomous Vehicle Deployment: A comparative Study of the US, EU, and China – Carlos Luján Tutusaus, Justin Hidalgo Vélez, Oriol Flix Viñas and Nadia Martínez Sheikhi (submission number 818)
EU regulatory framework for transport and logistics: the path to low emissions, energy transition, and technology advancements through the ADMIRAL lens – Gabriel Dias, Elisabete Arsenio and Sofia Cerqueira (submission number 908)
Assessing the effectiveness of the EU passenger rights framework in the context of multimodal and smart mobility – Hai Anh Le (submission number 1007)
Comparative Analysis of Liability Frameworks for Automated Vehicles: Legal Readiness in the EU, US and China – Julia Roussou, Armira Kontaxi, Apostolos Ziakopoulos and George Yannis (submission number 1018)
Changing traffic regulation in Europe – impact of autonomous driving – Zsófia Farkas and Péter Gáspár (submission number 1504)
Special session
Digitalization is the broad transformation of societal and business models through the adoption and strategic integration of digital technologies. It is a key enabler to improve efficiencies, enhance customer experience, provide new opportunities and to enable automation, which results in a more agile and competitive organization. Furthermore, digitalisation will be critical for challenges related to increased labour shortage, international competition and geopolitical developments, the transition to a zero-emission waterborne sector, and the modal shift to waterborne transport. Over the past couple of years, digitalisation has found its way into the IWT and port sectors. This session will explore the state-of-play as regards digitalisation of these sectors, the next steps in terms of RD&I, as well as the further deployment of technologies. Special attention will be paid to the concept of regulatory sandboxes, critical to deploy digital technologies and concepts.