Sustainable Mobility Center – CNMS

Funder: Project funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.4 - Call for tender No. 3138 of 16/12/2021 of Italian Ministry of University and Research funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU 

Award Number: Project code CN00000023, Concession Decree No. 1033 of 17/06/2022 adopted by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, CUP D93C22000400001, “Sustainable Mobility Center” (CNMS)

Start date: 01/09/2022

End date: 31/08/2025

Total NRRP funding for the whole project: € 319.922.088

Total NRRP funding for Unipr: € 2.502.970

Objectives

Nowadays, global climate challenges must be tackled to ensure proper resource management through sustainable models, with mobility management being one of the toughest environmental and social challenges. With 23% of Europe’s GHG emissions produced by transport, accelerating sustainability in transportation systems is crucial. Encouraging the adoption of new technologies and efficient systems through innovation in the transport sector generates a direct impact on the environment and quality of life, reduces energy dependence, and creates new jobs and business opportunities. To tackle these challenges, the project will achieve the following objectives:

• Make mobility system greener: promoting innovative and "sustainable mobility" providing new lightweight solutions, new propulsion systems, H2 fuels and electric.
• Make mobility system safer: promoting digital products and processes to foster smart management
• Increase resilience and efficiency of mobility: fostering a digital transformation of mobility service system both for public and private transport
• Create customized and accessible mobility: allowing new social inclusion through digital innovation for all type of users.
• Strengthening the supply chain and national competitiveness: boosting synergies between companies and research institutions in the transportation
• Strengthening skills in the industrial field: supporting national/regional policies by identifying priorities and strategies for a parallel and osmotic development of research and industrial application

Activities

The general objectives mentioned above can be achieved by allocating the project research efforts on 14 different strategic thematic areas, that will be the spheres of investigation of 14 different spokes:

• Spoke 1 – Air Mobility
• Spoke 2 – Sustainable Road vehicle
• Spoke 3 – Waterways
• Spoke 4 – Rail Transportation
• Spoke 5 – Light Vehicle and Active Mobility
• Spoke 6 – Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV)
• Spoke 7 – CCAM, Connected networks and Smart Infrastructure
• Spoke 8 – MaaS & Innovative Services
• Spoke 9 – Urban Mobility
• Spoke 10 – Logistics and Freight
• Spoke 11 – Innovative Materials and Lightweighting
• Spoke 12 – Innovative propulsion
• Spoke 13 – Electric Traction and Batteries (ETB)
• Spoke 14 – Hydrogen and new fuels

UNIPR is involved in the following Spokes as affiliated entity:

• Spoke 4 – Rail Transportation, aiming to create a network of research centres and laboratories, large-scale demonstration environments full-scale prototypal applications
• Spoke 9 – Urban Mobility, aiming to create a network of research centres and laboratories, large-scale demonstration environments full-scale prototypal applications

• Department of Engineering and Architecture
• Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Science

The consortium of the CNMS (MOST) project is composed of both public and private entities, such as:

Spokes and affiliates – Public entities:

• Politecnico di Milano
• Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
• Politecnico di Bari
• Politecnico di Torino
• Università degli studi di Bergamo
• Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
• Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II
• Sapienza Università di Roma
• Università degli studi di Brescia
• Università degli studi di Cagliari
• Università degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio meridionale
• Università degli studi di Firenze
• Università degli studi di Genova
• Università degli studi di Milano Bicocca
• Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope
• Università degli studi di Padova
• Università degli studi di Palermo
• Università degli studi di Parma
• Università degli studi di Salerno
• Università degli studi di Torino
• Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
• Università del Salento
• Università di Pisa
• Università Politecnica delle Marche

Spokes’ affiliates – Private entities:

• Almaviva S.p.A.
• A2A S.p.A.
• Accenture S.p.A.
• Angel Holding S.r.l.
• Atos Italia S.p.A.
• Autostrade per l’Italia S.p.A.
• Brembo S.p.A.
• C.R.F. S.C.p.A.
• ENI S.p.A.
• Ferrari S.p.A.
• Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A.
• Fincantieri S.p.A.
• FNM S.p.A.
• GE Avio Aero s.r.l.
• Hitachi Rail STS S.p.A.
• Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A.
• Iveco Group N.V.
• Leonardo S.p.A.
• Pirelli Tire S.p.A.
• Poste Italiane S.p.A.
• SNAM S.p.A.
• Teoresi S.p.A.
• Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A.
• UnipolSai Assicurazioni S.p.A.

The project will contribute to create a sustainable and safe transport for people and goods by increasing demand for green vehicles and improving transport efficiency, safety, interoperability, and logistics effectiveness. To increase the impact of the results, the synergy within actors will improve:

• Social sustainability: Identifying and managing business impacts on people, including direct safety, and reducing environmental impact of GHG emissions.
• Environmental sustainability: Responsible interaction with the environment to avoid depletion or degradation of natural resources through reduced fuel consumption, alternative fuel sources, and efficient transportation.
• Economic sustainability: Supporting long-term economic development while protecting environmental, social, and cultural elements. CNMS aims to reduce criticality through workshops involving companies.

Within the larger idea/concept of sustainability, the project will impact these aspects:

• Sustainable and safe transport for people and goods which focuses upon social and environmental sustainability
• The strengthening of the competitiveness of the mobility sector which directly links to economic sustainability
• High-level skills development which focusses upon knowledge building and sharing and hence longterm sustainability and impact on mobility

The project will focus not only on technological development but also on high-level education through the recruitment of PhDs and RDTA, and the development of thematic LLL programs and MOOCS for company research staff.

Research activities carried out in each Spoke are defined for a long-term strategy of exploitation of innovation beyond the research and academic world, boosting the technological transfer of benefits and impacts created in a specific field beyond it, so to enable commercial exploitation and new markets uptake.

CNMS, thanks to a wide involvement of the sector's corporations –the true strength of the proposal– will implement though out its operation following actions.

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