The RTR 2025 conference took place betwwen 11th-13th of February 2025, in Brussels, Belgium.
The RTR 2025 (Results from Road Transport Research) Conference attracted its largest audience to date, with more than 500 participants on-site and 400 participants joining online, emphasising the importance of pre-competitive collaborative research in road transport at the European level. This high level of participation is a testimony of the RTR conference’s pivotal role in supporting the European R&I eco-system in all the fields of road transport: infrastructure, road safety, decarbonisation, digitalisation, urban mobility, as well freight and logistics.
The main takeaway was the importance of “coordination” to help accelerate the deployment of results from funded research.
The inclusion in the RTR2025 of projects from other EU programmes, such as the CEF programme, highlighted the importance of building bridges that facilitate knowledge and best practice exchanges.
Nevertheless, coordination must happen not only at the European level: it is equally essential at the national and regional levels. Engaging more deeply with Member States will help to foster stronger alliances.
DELPHI has a two fold participation in the conference:
- On Wednesday, February 12th, DELPHI contributed to discussions on multimodal traffic management, focusing on use cases and technology readiness levels, as part of the Multimodal Traffic Management Cluster (MTMC) Workshop. Ms. Sofia Kokonezi, from ICCS, delivered two presentations during the workshop. Workshop agenda is available here.
- On Thursday, February 13th, DELPHI participated in the Session 21: Multimodal Traffic Management for Door-to-Door Passenger and Freight Transport, that took place betwwen 13:30 – 15:00 CET, in the Conference Auditorium, moderated by Mr. Thiago Tavares from CINEA – European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (and project officer of DELPHI) & Ms. Paraskevi (Vivi) Michalaki from National Highways. DELPHI joined ACUMEN Project and SYNCHROMODE Project to discuss innovative approaches to multimodal traffic management. Ms. Sofia Kokonezi, from ICCS, delivered a presentation of DELPHI, which can be found here.
𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗣𝗛𝗜’𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
🔹 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: DELPHI is developing a federated network of platforms that seamlessly integrate passenger and freight transport, increasing efficiency across modes.
🔹 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: The project has completed the design of its pilot use cases, which focus on real-world applications of multimodal traffic management, including the DELPHI Town concept.
🔹 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗧𝗠 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿: By participating in the Multimodal Traffic Management (MTM) Cluster, DELPHI aligns with other EU projects to encourage interoperable solutions.
🔹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮-𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀: The project has generated combined passenger and freight traffic data, contributing to smarter traffic management strategies.
By improving 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 in multimodal transport networks, DELPHI is paving the way for a seamless, efficient, and sustainable mobility system across Europe.
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