Until recently, the electric vehicles were considered as one among many alternative fuel vehicles. In recent times, due to a high oil prices and environmental concerns, the awareness of the need for development of sustainable mobility based on renewable energy is growing. All automobile manufacturers produce models of electric cars, and they, slowly but unstoppably, take their place in traffic especially in urban areas. Through the previous project, Europe Electric Car (Leonardo da Vinci Partnership, 2012-2014), ŠKOLA ZA CESTOVNI PROMET (Road Traffic School) from Zagreb started to follow the new technologies in transport developing competences of students and teachers of vocational schools through education and training about electric cars. In addition, the cooperation with manufacturers and other stakeholders which are directly or indirectly involved in the development of electric cars and related infrastructure, was established. This project was a logical continuation with special focus on the environmental aspect of the concept of e-mobility using electricity from renewable sources.The main goal of this project was increasing the quality of teaching and learning in vocational education system through the development of innovative new educational module ELECTROMOBILITY and related forms of teaching and learning (ICT, OER), transfer and dissemination of good practice among European vocational schools and strengthening of the connection between vocational education and the labor market, with focus in the field of e-mobility.The project coordinator was Road Traffic School from Zagreb, and the partners were two vocational schools KOUVOLA REGION VOCATIONAL COLLEGE (Finland) and ŠOLSKI CENTER CELJE (Slovenia), Energy Institute Hrvoje Požar (EIHP) Zagreb, (Croatia), Avant car d.o.o. (Ljubljana, Slovenia), DUCATI components d.o.o. (Ludbreg, Croatia), NETEKO (Zabok, Croatia), and ACASA (Barcelona, Spain). Vocational schools from Croatia, Finland and Slovenia have educational programmes related to the transport and logistics in their framework, beginning already to address the concept of e-mobility. They have their own electric cars and some elements of the infrastructure required to teach about the concept. Existing infrastructure was upgraded during the project to serve as a teaching tool for efficient learning about the e-mobility concept.The project lasted 3 years. The realization of the project was divided into 3 phases. In the first phase (the first year of implementation) the teachers and participants from partner institutions passed through the trainings during which they studied the components of the e-mobility concept and application of the concept in different European countries. The goal of the training was to link education and educational experts (teachers) with the labor market and with the institutions that are experts in the field of the concept of e-mobility, also including transfer of knowledge, skills and good practice. In the second phase (the second year of implementation), teachers from vocational schools, in collaboration with entrepreneurs and all other e-mobility experts, created new educational module ELECTROMOBILITY as a supplement to existing curriculum in traffic and logistics, as well as innovative tools for the application of that module in education (tools for teaching and learning). The participants disseminated the project results by organizing seminars for teachers in transport and logistic, in their own country and surrounding ones, and to all public interested in this topic. In the third phase (the third year of implementation) the partner schools tested newly created module and the associated tools for learning by applying it in their schools. The students went on mobility in partner schools and in that way evaluated the module. In addition, the students and teachers from 3 schools organized the final event of the project – the meetings of the electric car owners (in all 3 partner countries).The project will have a positive impact through the development of professional knowledge and competence in the field of e-mobility, the development of basic and transversal skills, vocational programmes and the national curriculum modernization, improvement of teaching approach. The project established a cooperation between European vocational schools in the field of transport and logistics and cooperation between vocational schools and the economy, thus creating conditions for better networking and exchange of experiences, good practice examples, the organization of vocational training and mobility for students and teachers.Potential longer term benefits of this project will be visible through better coordination of the educational system and the economy as well as the popularization of the idea of e-mobility thus supporting the efforts of all EU members to ensure the share of energy from renewable sources in all forms of transportation in the amount of at least 10%

New technologies in transport enabled systems with the capacity to improve safety, efficiency, sustainability and comfort. Advances in vehicle automation allow the circulation of vehicles with a minimal human intervention in the near future. However, this irruption brings new technical and non-technical challenges that are to be addressed to ensure safe adoption of level 3 automated vehicles. Based on existing prototypes of automated vehicles (provided by the consortium), will perform multidisciplinary research to ensure the needs of the users (drivers), other road users (other drivers and Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs)), and the perspectives of stakeholders (driving instructors, insurance companies, authorities, certifiers, policy makers and regulators), as a key for obtaining viable and market-ready products. This main objective is further detailed in the following ones: 1) Multidisciplinary (human, social, economic, security, legal and ethical considerations) study of the requirements and expectations of the drivers, VRUs, and stakeholders to assure safety and adoption of automated vehicles. 2) Turning requirements into innovative interaction and monitoring concepts for driver-vehicle interaction in order to bridge the gap between users and automation technologies while assuring safe vehicles handling with reduced driver attention. 3) Turning requirements into innovative monitoring concepts for vehicle-environment interaction, enhancing current Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS) through the inclusion of predictive capabilities for better and faster ADAS reactions (nominal and emergency). 4) Validating requirements, user acceptance and impact assessment through realistic user-centric testing exercises under different scenario conditions. 5) Paving the way for the further adoption of the technology by the automation industry, by evolving on testing and pre-validation protocols, proposing advancements on the regulation and consumerist assessment.

Multifaceted research initiatives and field operational tests have proven the potential of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (C-ITS) to contribute to a safer, more flexible, mobile, sustainable and comfortable future society. In first deployment activities like the Cooperative ITS Corridor, SCOOP@F and COMPASS4D pilot projects,users will precociously experience the benefits of cooperative traffic safety and efficiency services, enabled by the integration of new technology (e.g. ETSI ITS G5) into vehicles and infrastructure. As a considerable stakeholder organisation, the Amsterdam Group pursues a harmonised C-ITS system realisation providing benefits to all users. It facilitates joint work for a growing variety of stakeholders such as road operators, automotive industry, cities and regions. The Coordination and Support Action COoperative ITS DEployment Coordination Support (CODECS) supports the European Commission and the manifold stakeholders involved in C-ITS deployment in finding strategic and technical policy solutions and processes for a consolidated C-ITS roll-out. CODECS serves as hub for transparent information and knowledge transfer on function approaches, experiences and lessons-learned by stakeholders active in the initial deployment. To ensure European-wide seamless (cross-border) interoperability and end-user experiences, CODECS develops a harmonised standards profile supporting a growing amount of C-ITS services. To address key organisational and technology related issues, CODECS will derive a strategic common road map from preferences of the involved stakeholders, giving direction for innovation, testing, standardisation and deployment beyond Day One. CODECS also supports future C-ITS common deployment by achieving a clear understanding on policies, roles and responsibilities. CODECS does convey these insights to the C-ITS deployment platform initiated by the European Commission and also to the Amsterdam Group.

Lane-level positioning and map matching are some of the biggest challenges for navigation systems. Although vehicle telematics provide services with positioning requirements fulfilled by low-cost GNSS receivers, more complex road and driver assistance applications are increasingly been deployed, due to the growing demand. These include lane-level information as well as lane-level navigation and prioritised alerts depending on the scenario composition (traffic sign, navigation instructions, ADAS instructions). These applications need a more accurate and reliable positioning subsystem. A good example of these new requirements can be witnessed in the increasing interest in navigation at lane-level, with applications such as enhanced driver awareness, intelligent speed alert and simple lane allocation. As well as the accuracy of positioning data being a big driver, there is also a question around the adaptability of navigation systems to these applications. This depends firstly on the availability of an accurate common reference for positioning (an enhanced map) and secondly, on the level of the provided pose estimation (integrity). However, neither the current road maps nor the traditional integrity parameters seem to be well suited for these purposes. Delivering lane-level information to an in-vehicle navigation system and combining this with the opportunity for vehicles to exchange information between themselves, will give drivers the opportunity to select the optimal road lane, even in dense traffic in urban and extra-urban areas. Every driver will be able to choose the appropriate lane and will to be able to reduce the risks associate with last-moment lane-change manoeuvres. inLane proposes new generation, low-cost, lane-level, precise turn-by-turn navigation applications through the fusion of EGNSS and Computer Vision technology. This will enable a new generation of enhanced mapping information based on crowdsourcing.

GALILEO 4 Mobility aims at supporting the introduction of GALILEO technology within the Mobility as a Service context, by analysing the needs in terms of geolocation of the different stakeholders involved and demonstrating the benefits of GALILEO through pilot demonstrators of shared mobility services. Urban mobility is becoming an issue of great importance in today’s society due to the increasing population movements towards big cities and the exponential growth of cities in developing countries. Today, urban mobility schemes are evolving faster than ever mainly due to social, economic and technological changes. The democratization of smart mobile devices is allowing new business models based on sharing goods and services: the sharing economy. Its fast growth during recent years reflects a shift from owning goods toward accessing them when you need them. In that context, shared mobility services have grown exponentially during last years, with the potential to become an integrated system of multi-modal mobility services: the so-called “Mobility as a Service” (MaaS). Geolocation of users and vehicles by means of satellite navigation technologies has been widely used and it´s a key enabler for most of the services. While traditional GPS-based solutions have proven not to be a reliable solution, GALILEO will further improve signal availability, thus enhancing continuity of service for shared mobility services in urban or challenging environments.