ITS Congress Dubai

SYNCHROMODE was present at the 30th ITS World Congress in Dubai from 16th to 20th of September 2024. This congress is organised by ERTICO every two years in Europe, and every third year in the EMEA region. This year’s congress was the first one in the UAE, displaying Dubai’s innovative landscape.

SYNCHROMODE was featured in the Special Interest session “SIS 85 Advanced multimodal network and traffic management: the latest advances of EU research”. The session was moderated by Evangelos Mitsakis from CERTH-HIT, coordinator of the SYNCHROMODE project. Dimitris Tzanis presented the SYNCHROMODE project along:

• Giannis Kanellopoulos from ICCS Greece, coordinator of the DELPHI project
• Trond Hovland from ITS Norway
• Pol Torres fro Eurecat, Spain
• Tiago Dias from a-to-be, Portugal
• Charalampos Sipetas from Aalto University, part of the coordination of the ACUMEN project

They presented the challenges, innovative concepts, solutions and results in the domain of multimodal traffic management. Dimitris Tzanis from SYNCHROMODE focused his presentation on “Advanced Traffic Management Solutions for Synchronized and Resilient Multimodal Transport Services” which aims at enhancing multimodal network and traffic management through the development of innovative algorithms, methods and tools.

All research projects featured (SYNCHROMODE, ACUMEN, DELPHI, ORCHESTRA, FRONTIER) are funded under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme, managed by CINEA and are part of the Multimodal Traffic Management Cluster.