EU Transport Commissioner Adina Vălean is among the confirmed speakers as 4,000 people will attend the Transport Research Arena 2024 event in Dublin between this morning and Thursday, focused on the future of transport.
The event claims to be Europe’s largest transport and mobility research conference taking place at the RDS with a boost of €7m to the Irish economy.
The theme is ‘Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility,’ gathering leading researchers and industry figures to discuss mobility advancements.
The programme includes demonstrations of technology, scientific presentations, and discussions, with former President of Ireland Mary Robinson as the keynote speaker at the closing ceremony. Programme sessions:
Monday
- Placing the user at the heart of policies and solutions to deliver more inclusive transport systems
- Enhancing our understanding of behavioural drivers
- Delivering sustainable and efficient modal choices with improved safety performance
- Transitioning to enable economic growth, supporting the single market and international co-operation
- Creating new employment opportunities, markets, skills, and training
Tuesday
- Addressing and the European Green Deal, delivering a 55% reduction in transport-related greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) by 2030 and 90% by 2050
- Implementing multi-disciplinary research and innovation across all sectors of society to deliver sustainable mobility
- Fostering cohesion, reducing regional disparities, and improving connectivity and access to the internal market for all
- Discussing environmental impacts and loss of biodiversity
- Supporting greener mobility of people and goods via zero-emissions’ vehicles and systems
Wednesday
- Scaling green and digital transport systems to meet the increasing demands
- Building in resilience to withstand and recover from disruptions
- Making use of new innovations to support appropriate management and investments, linking energy supply and access to raw materials as our transport systems move from fossil fuels to more sustainable alternatives
- Applying circular economy principles across all elements of the transport system
- Supporting the strategic autonomy of the European transport sector in a world of changing geopolitics regulation and conflict
Thursday
- Utilising digitalisation as a key driver of change leading to efficiencies in all modes and the adoption of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
- Automating mobility
- Mobility as a Service (MaaS)
- Accelerating the digital transition to data sharing and efficient European connectivity,
- Addressing governance, cyber security and open science and digital infrastructure (5G and beyond)
- Discussing the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies
