Fourth General Assembly in Bilbao

The SYNCHROMODE partners gathered for their 4th GA in Bilbao, from 20^th to 22^nd of November 2024 hosted by Deusto University. 

The first morning was dedicated to an overview of the project management led by CERTH to prepare the mid-term review as the project reached month 18 at the end of October 2024. The three pilot sites from the Province of South Holland, Madrid and Thessaloniki could then explain the progress of their local experimentations: 

• Madrid pilot site gave insights on their 3^rd workshop held at the end of October and the status of their work on logistic delivery estimation and public transport demand prediction model.  

• The Thessaloniki team updated about the 10 uses cases they are developping (resilient traffic management – event management, combined passenger and freight transport management, MaaS, high fidelity traffic management…).  

• The Province of South-Holland organised a workshop on 7^th of October to tackle the issue of busy beach days and showed its map of stakeholders in charge of traffic management. 

The following presentations were dedicated to the technical developments of the project: 

• Rupprecht consulting gave some updates on the users’ needs, system requirements definition and governance models. 

• Nommon explained the status of the data gathering, fusion and analysis. 

• UCL then presented the progresses made on modelling, simulation and the prediction of multimodal solutions 

The second day began with the presentation of the dissemination and communication of the project’s results. POLIS Network is in charge of the communication of the project on the various social media channels and at the relevant events. SYNCHROMODE has been featured in all the major sector events during the year as the ITS World Congress in Dubai from 16^th to 20^th of September, the CIVITAS Forum in Parma from 1^st to 3^rd of October and the POLIS Conference on 27^th & 28^th of November. SYNCHROMODE is also playing an active role within the Multimodal Traffic Management Cluster, coordinating the writing and publication of its Roadmap for 2030. PNO then presented their workplan to develop the exploitation strategy and the business modelling. They shared their definition of the Key Exploitable Results (KER) of the project. The University of Deusto then explained the status of their work package that aims at developing a framework for transport network management which allows to optimise mobility flows of passengers and freights. The day ended with the presentation of VMZ and Yunex, in charge of integrating the SYNCHROMODE modules and the case studies in one toolbox. 

The last day was dedicated to the last discussion about the integration of all modules and to the preparation of the mid-term review meeting. 

We would like to thank the University of Deusto for their warm welcome in Bilbao!