Ongoing projects
CodeZERO
Sustainable and zero-emission last-mile e-commerce delivery solutions
CodeZERO is a three-year Horizon Europe research project aiming to co-create sustainable and zero-emission last-mile delivery and return solutions for e-commerce that align with consumers’ preferences while being sustainable for retailers, logistics operators and local authorities. Additionally, the project is focused on providing clear, consumer-friendly communication and developing tools for local authorities to promote eco-friendly behaviour.
Project website: https://www.codezero-project.eu/
EU website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101146909
TØI contact: Delphine Pernot
AMIGOS
Active Mobility Innovations for Green and Safe city solutions
AMIGOS examines urban mobility challenges using advanced data modelling and large-scale digital tools to support greener and safer city transport systems. Through co-creation with public authorities and users, the project develops and tests inclusive mobility solutions in multiple cities, with a focus on increasing public transport use, active travel, and safety. The project also evaluates the environmental, social, and economic impacts of these solutions and their potential for replication in other urban contexts.
Project website: https://amigos-project.eu/
EU website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101104268
TØI contact: Aslak Fyhri
TRUST
Traffic Safety Culture - A Systematic Transition Towards Shared Responsibility for Safe and Sustainable Mobility in the EU
TRUST is a European research project focused on improving road safety by developing a shared understanding of Traffic Safety Culture (TSC) in Europe. The main objectives of TRUST are to develop clear definitions, tools, and frameworks for assessing and strengthening traffic safety culture at both the organisational and community levels. The project also aims to support the implementation of the Safe System approach and promote sustainable mobility practices across Europe.
Project website: https://trafficsafetyculture.eu/
EU website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101197992
TØI contact: Tor-Olav Nævestad
AfroSAFE
Safe System for radical improvement of road safety in low- and middle-income African countries
AfroSAFE is an EU-funded project that promotes the Safe System approach to road safety in African countries by sharing knowledge, tools, and methods adapted to local conditions. The project works closely with local practitioners and decision-makers to build capacity, with a particular focus on vulnerable road users and long-term development of local expertise through training. By strengthening road safety management across key areas such as infrastructure, vehicles, and road users, AfroSAFE aims to support sustained reductions in traffic fatalities and injuries.
Project website: https://www.ictct.net/afrosafe/project/
EU website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101069500
TØI contact: Tor-Olav Nævestad
Shift2Zero
Shifting to zero-emission logistics with right-sized, mission-focused, N1 eLCVs
Shift2Zero is a European project pioneering innovative designs and cutting-edge solutions for zero-emission electric light commercial vehicles (e-LCVS), tailored to meet the evolving needs of urban logistics. The project’s primary goal is to reduce road transport emissions and to enhance operational efficiency, ensuring that the solutions developed are aligned with real-world challenges.
Project website: https://shift2zero-project.eu/
EU website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101192375
TØI contact: Howard Weir
PATH2ZERO, a Horizon Europe project, is stepping up to cut transport emissions and support the EU’s climate targets. The project will provide accurate data, realistic modelling, and actionable roadmaps to bridge the gap between current transport policies and the EU’s goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040 and reaching net zero by 2050.
Project website: https://path2zero.eu/
EU website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101184132
TØI contact: Paal Brevik Wangsness
Previous projects
MODI
A leap towards SAE L4 automated driving features
MODI is a project demonstrating connected, cooperative and automated mobility (CCAM) solutions for heavy freight transport along a cross-border corridor from Rotterdam to Norway, including operations at major logistics hubs and ports. The project focuses on overcoming regulatory, technical and operational barriers to deploying automated transport systems in real logistics conditions, including infrastructure needs, safety, and coordination within the supply chain. TØI contributes by analysing barriers, business models, safety and security risks, and the broader societal impacts of automated freight transport.
Project website: https://modiproject.eu/
EU website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101076810
TØI contact: Ross Owen Phillips
SHAPE-IT
Supporting the Interaction of Humans and Automated Vehicles: Preparing for the Environment of Tomorrow
SHAPE-IT is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 training network (Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant 860410) that brought together 15 PhD candidates to study how humans and automated vehicles interact in urban environments. The project focused on making automated vehicles safer and more user-centred by examining road user behaviour, designing communication interfaces, and integrating human factors into safety models. By combining insights from psychology, engineering, and AI, SHAPE-IT aimed to support the responsible integration of automated vehicles into mixed traffic systems.
Project website: https://www.shape-it.eu/
EU website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/860410/
TØI contact: Siri Hegna Berge
MOVE21
Multimodal and Interconnected Hubs for Freight and Passenger Transport Contributing to a Zero Emission 21st Century
Passenger and freight transport must be addressed together so that policies, infrastructure (physical and digital), vehicles and energy sources serve both. These aspects will be tackled in an integrated and coherent way in six urban nodes: From policy definition, to planning and implementation in the cities cooperating in MOVE21. The tested and integrated approach will then be disseminated across Europe.
Project website: https://move21.eu/
EU website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/953939
TØI Contact: Howard Weir
ULaaDS
Urban Logistics as an on Demand Service
A consortium led by 3 municipalities (pilot cities) committed to zero emissions city logistics (Bremen, Mechelen, Groningen) has joined forces with logistics stakeholders and leading academic institutions to accelerate the deployment of novel, feasible, shared and ZE solutions addressing major upcoming challenges generated by the rising on-demand economy in future urban logistics.
Project website: https://ulaads.eu/
EU website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/861833
TØI Contact: Howard Weir
BuildERS
Increasing resilience in Europe
The BuildERS project will develop knowledge and insights that will device recommendations for policies, plans, strategies, and competencies for building partnerships, networks and trust for progressively fortifying the social capital and resilience against future threats, be they natural or man-induced.
Project website: https://buildersproject.eu/
EU website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/222615/factsheet/en
TØI Contact: Tor-Olav Nævestad
DriveToTheFuture
Needs, wants and behaviour of 'Drivers' and automated vehicle users today and into the future
The project DriveToTheFuture aims to prepare “drivers”, travelers and vehicle operators of the future to accept and use connected, cooperative and automated transport modes and the industry of these technologies to understand and meet their needs and wants.
Project website: http://www.drive2thefuture.eu/
EU website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/221851/factsheet/en
TØI Contact: Petr Pokorny
Levitate
Societal Level Impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicles
The aim of the Levitate project is to prepare a new impact assessment framework to enable policymakers to manage the introduction of connected and automated transport systems, maximise the benefits and utilise the technologies to achieve societal objectives.
Project website: https://levitate-project.eu/
EU website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/218634/factsheet/en
TØI Contact: Knut Veisten
SAFEWAY
GIS-based infrastructure management system for optimized response to extreme events on terrestrial transport networks.
The project SAFEWAY is expected to significantly improved resilience of transport infrastructures, developing a holistic toolset with transversal application to anticipate and mitigate the effects extreme events at all modes of disaster cycle.
Project website: https://www.safeway-project.eu/en
EU website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/216011/factsheet/en
TØI Contact: Ross O. Phillips
VIRTUAL
Open access virtual testing protocols for enhanced road user safety
The objective of VIRTUAL is to improve the safety of road users by providing procedures and open access tools to assess the benefit of novel safety systems. The goal is to establish a European based global hub for Open Source Virtual Testing (OpenVT) and to demonstrate its success in traffic safety. Open Source Human Body Models of both men and women will be made available in a format that is scalable to represent different ages and sizes of car occupants, vulnerable road users, and users of public transport.
Project website: https://projectvirtual.eu/
EU website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/215992/factsheet/en
TØI Contact: Petr Pokorny
BE OPEN
European forum and oBsErvatory for OPEN science in transport
The project BE OPEN aims to create a common understanding on the practical impact of Open Science and to identify and put in place the mechanisms to make it a reality in transport research.
Project website: https://beopen-project.eu/
EU website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/219760/factsheet/e
TØI Contact: Anja Fleten Nielsen
CITYLAB
Coordinated by TOI
CITYLAB established living labs as a working method in city logistics, and the objective was to develop knowledge and solutions resulting in up-scaling and roll-out of strategies, measures and tools for emission-free city logistics in urban centres by 2030.
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/193359/reporting/en
http://www.citylab-project.eu/objectives.php
TØI Contact: Sissel Ahlman Jensen
STRAIGHTSOL
Strategies and measures for smarter urban freight solutions
STRAIGHTSOL was an EU-funded project, comprising seven innovative cutting edge urban freight demonstrations. It ran from September 2011 to August 2014.
http://www.straightsol.eu/
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/285295/reporting
TØI Contact: Sidsel Ahlmann Jensen
INDEV
The main objective of the InDeV project was to contribute to the improvement of Vulnerable Road Users’ (VRU) safety in Europe, by developing an integrated methodology for understanding accident causes for VRUs.
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/193358/reporting/en
https://www.indev-project.eu/InDeV/EN/Home/home_node.html
TØI Contact: Torkel Bjørnskau
SAFETYCUBE
The primary objective of the SafetyCube project was to develop an innovative road safety Decision Support System (DSS) to enable policy-makers and stakeholders to select and implement the most appropriate strategies, measures and cost-effective approaches to reduce casualties of all road user types and all severities in Europe and worldwide.
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/193237/reporting/en
https://www.safetycube-project.eu/
TØI Contact: Rune Elvik
SMART-RAIL
SMART-RAIL was one of the lighthouse projects of SHIFT2RAIL and contributed to Innovation Programme 5. The SMART-RAIL project was aligned with the objectives of SHIFT2RAIL, ensuring that the results could be used in further research in this programme. SMART-RAIL was funded under the H2020 Programme of the European Commission.
http://smartrail-project.eu/
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/193372/reporting/en
TØI Contact: Sidsel Ahlmann Jensen
SCORE
The project SCORE explored, assessed and forecasted how progress in research and development, new innovative technologies and future demand changes in combination with forthcoming geopolitical and geo-economic developments affect the global competitive position of the European transport manufacturing industry.
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/205669/reporting/en
http://transport-scoreboard.eu/project/
TØI Contact: Tor Olav Nævestad
