Transport and Mobility

This year’s Innovation Radar Prize has been awarded to an overall winner as well as three category winners representing environmentally sustainable innovations, disruptive health technologies and hidden gems in the early stages of development.

An EU-backed project’s innovative approach is making mobile network architectures more efficient and sustainable.

An EU project named in honour of the founder of modern nursing is developing a novel toolkit to help first responders as they go about saving lives.

It is time to think past cars, trains and buses. The future way of urban mobility is in the air. So next time you find yourself stuck in traffic, look to the sky.

Can drones be safely integrated into Europe’s airspace? An EU-backed project has demonstrated that they can.

What could be reducing the capacity and performance of state-of-the-art battery materials for electric vehicles (EVs)? According to EU-backed researchers, it’s the irregular movement of lithium ions.

EU-backed researchers are lending a helping hand towards a future with trustworthy AI with a roadmap identifying major research challenges and a handbook containing major AI-related scientific and technical terms.

Researchers have discovered the missing force that explains how drops of water move on surfaces. It turns out, it’s electrostatics.

Approach operations at busy airports are set to become more energy efficient and less noisy thanks to an integrated system that will assist pilots in making better configuration management decisions.

Drone flight demonstrations are underway in Norway to increase insight into urban air mobility (UAM) possibilities in emergency medical service delivery.

Flight tests held at Pontoise airfield simulated avoidance manoeuvres in three different real-world scenarios, proving that safe flight with urban air mobility (UAM) aircraft is possible.

EU-backed researchers are developing 3D-printed sensors to improve aircraft maintenance.

Research into the legal and policy implications of autonomous vessels in international shipping has stumbled on an issue related not to law or security, but gender.

A new pilot plant for rare earth material recycling in the United Kingdom promises to help meet Europe’s rising demand for high-performance magnets.

Armed with digital technologies, the EU-funded HyperCOG project is helping to create the factories of the future. Its smart system promises to increase production performance and reduce emissions and energy use in Europe’s process industries.

A new AI platform’s advanced musculoskeletal models could speed up the development of prosthetics and post-injury rehab.

Its vision of eco-friendly, nature-inclusive ports has earned the EU-funded Living Ports project the 2022 International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) Sustainability Award for Infrastructure.

Preparing for a future of seamless network handovers across European borders, an EU-backed project has just completed its first cross-border connectivity demonstrations at a 5G testbed in Latvia.

A recent paper discusses reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), a pioneering technology set to make its way into 6G wireless communication networks and beyond.

A report highlights how an innovative battery power solution could support zero-emission voyages for inland waterway vessels.