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SCUDO is a research and innovation action funded by Horizon Europe, the European Union’s primary funding programme for research and innovation.
SCUDO aims to develop novel methodologies for the design, planning and operations of transport systems to make them more resilient, safe and energy efficient.
The project aims to identify and classify scenarios of disruptive changes, analyze their impact to different socio-economic groups, improve the monitoring of disruptions and the quantification of uncertainties, develop novel methods for the design & management of transport systems based on the Safe System Approach, and establish a Pan-European Platform to allow a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of different types of disruptions to different geographical areas and user groups.

(i) Developping AI models for system monitoring and testing, aiming for the quantification of uncertainties and the detection of disruptions, (ii) Developing AI based predictive models and traffic forecasting approaches, aiming to use existing and opportunistic data sources to identify disruptions, classify them, and forecast their potential impact to different socio-economic groups, (iii) developing strategic/tactical planning and real-time decision models following a Safe System Approach, aiming to design resilient transport infrastructure and transport systems which are safe and energy efficient, (iii) Combining the developed models into a Pan-European Platform and tests them in 4 diverse Use Cases related to resilient public transport management (Athens, GR), resilient traffic management (Bavaria, DE), resilient strategic planning of transport infrastructure networks considering future housing developments and climate change (Amsterdam, NL), and resilient network management (Venice, IT).

SCUDO will be executed within 36 months, starting in May 2025 and ending in April 2028.

SCUDO is run by a consortium of 13 partners from Belgium, Italy, Germany, Greece, Portugal and Netherlands:

  1. ‘the coordinator’:
    EUROPEAN ROAD TRANSPORT TELEMATICS IMPLEMENTATION COORDINATION
    ORGANISATION – INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS & SERVICES EUROPE
    (ERTICO ITS EUR), Belgium
  2. TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT (TU Delft), Netherlands
  3. TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN (TUM), Germany
  4. ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION (NTUA), Greece
  5. UNIVERSITA IUAV DI VENEZIA (IUAV), Italy
  6. MINISTERIE VAN INFRASTRUCTUUR EN WATERSTAAT (RWS), Netherlands
  7. COMUNE DI VENEZIA (VENEZIA), Italy
  8. DE VERVOERREGIO AMSTERDAM (VRA), Netherlands
  9. STATHERES SYGKOINONIES MONOPROSOPI ANONYMI ETAIREIA (STASY), Greece
  10. DIE AUTOBAHN GMBH DES BUNDES (AUTOBAHN), Germany
  11. FRONTIER INNOVATIONS I.K.E. (FRONTIER), Greece
  12. INOVA+ – INNOVATION SERVICES, SA (INOVA), Portugal
  13. FENIX NETWORK CROSS-BORDER DATA SHARING ASSOCIATION (FENIX), Belgium

A use case, in the context of SCUDO, refers to a specific, practical scenario explored within the project to validate and assess the impact of its solutions through simulated and real-life conditions.

SCUDO will validate and assess the impact of its solutions through simulated and real-life conditions in 4 diverse Use Cases related to:

  • Athens, Greece: resilient public transport management
  • Bavaria, Germany: resilient traffic management
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands: resilient strategic planning of transport infrastructure networks considering future housing developments and climate change
  • Venice, Italy: resilient network management

SCUDO has 6 main objectives:

  1. Set the ground, engage the public and identify the impact of disruptions on different socioeconomic groups at different geographical areas in terms of safety and wellbeing;
  2. Identify disruptive changes that can make a transport system unstable, including black swans, improve the quantification of uncertainties, and analyze their consequences on safety;
  3. Develop strategic design, tactical planning, and real-time control solutions to tackle disruptions and increase the resilience, safety and energy efficiency of transportation systems;
  4. Establish a Pan-European Platform which integrates SCUDO’s digital tools and evaluates their potential in diverse Use-Cases, considering users’ socio-economic differences;
  5. Develop governance recommendations and business models for the efficient adoption of SCUDO’s solutions by transport authorities and operators;
  6. Facilitate dissemination, communication, knowledge transfer, and exploitation to accelerate resilience.

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