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URBAN MOBILITY
and Vehicles, Collective Passenger The CEF ‘Urban Nodes’ priority,
Transport, Demand Management, funded since 2014, aims to better
Integrated Planning, Mobility integrate long-distance transport
Management, Public Involvement, with the urban traffic system for
Safety and Security, Transport both passengers and freight. INEA
Telematics and Freight Logistics. manages 44 projects selected in five
calls for proposals, with a total EU
INEA'S CONTRIBUTION TO SMART contribution of €215 million in grants.
CITIES AND COMMUNITIES They contribute to:
INEA actively contributes to the
transition to a reliable, sustainable • Covering missing links and
and competitive energy system by bottlenecks between transport
overcoming important European modes in urban nodes (e.g. the
challenges, such as increasingly connection between an airport
scarce resources, growing energy and city centre, or international
needs and climate change. rail station and urban bypass);
The Smart Cities and Communities • Covering missing links and
lighthouse projects demonstrate bottlenecks by better connecting
sustainable, cost-effective and TEN-T journeys with urban ones;
replicable district-scale solutions to
increase cities’ overall energy and • Increasing multi-modality, by
resource efficiency. sustainably shifting both freight
and passengers from road
The projects are positioned at the transport to alternative modes,
intersection of energy and transport or by shifting from fossil to
innovation, enabled by open ICT alternative fuels. This includes
urban platforms. They include public transport optimisation,
thematic areas relevant to transport development of bikes and cargo-
and mobility, for example in the area bike transport patterns, low-noise/
of electro mobility. carbon urban freight delivery,
better use of public space, etc.
The first Smart Cities and
Communities call managed by the INEA’S SUPPORT COVERS THE FULL
INEA was launched in 2014, and 14 INNOVATION CYCLE
projects have been funded so far, INEA further supports its Horizon
with a total EU contribution of around 2020 beneficiaries by providing
€300 million. The projects involve guidance and best practices for
some 550 beneficiaries from all over turning project results into business
the EU, including 40 lighthouse cities opportunities, and helping them
and 53 follower cities. to identify complementary funding
instruments that can support
INEA'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE CEF innovative ideas towards full
URBAN NODES PRIORITY deployment.
The CEF Transport programme
supports the completion of the The Agency is committed to fostering
TEN-T network with a focus on nine a real European wide take-up and
multimodal Core Network Corridors. deployment of innovative urban
It contributes to the deployment of mobility solutions, so that European
sustainable and efficient mobility citizens can enjoy more efficient
solutions, and to the combination of transport systems, with new and
transport modes and ICT. better transport services. l
1 The PORTIS and ECCENTRIC projects have featured in previous editions of the European Energy Innovation magazine.
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