Mobility and transport

The proposals include updates to the agreement with Ukraine to improve its practical implementation and enforcement while maintaining its objectives and scope. The original agreements were signed in June 2022 and later extended until end of June 2024. They give bilateral transport rights to Ukrainian, Moldovan and EU hauliers for each other's territories. With traditional transport routes in the region disrupted or closed due to Russian's war of aggression against Ukraine, the prolongation until at least the end of 2025 will help secure supply chains and support the EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes.

The European Commission has published preliminary figures on road fatalities for 2023. Around 20,400 people were killed in road crashes in the EU last year, a small 1% decrease on 2022. Despite some progress since the baseline year of 2019, few Member States are on track to meet the target of halving the number of road deaths by 2030.

The third high-level meeting of the EU-Ukraine Transport Dialogue took place in Kyiv, focusing on efforts to keep Ukraine's exports and imports moving via the Solidarity Lanes, improving connectivity, safety and security as well as sustainability.

In the face of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU, together with Ukraine and Moldova launched the EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes in May 2022, establishing new transport routes to keep Ukraine’s imports and exports flowing via rail, road and inland waterways. Today, the EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes have become a lifeline for Ukraine’s economy.

Budapest was awarded the European Mobility Week Award in a ceremony in Brussels, while online platform Nudgd won the Mobility Action award. Both awards reward activities conducted in 2023. The jury selected the City of Budapest for its car-free weekend and Car-Free Day on 22 September 2023. Nudgd, a Swedish online platform, impressed the jury with its use of behavioural science to promote sustainable school travel in Helsingborg.

Maritime transport, vital for global trade, faces challenges like staff shortages and lack of diversity. The Belgian EU Presidency hosted the 'Conference on the Wellbeing of Seafarers' on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2024, featuring the 'Honours for Diversity and Inclusion in Maritime' award ceremony.

EUROCONTROL has released the 2024 edition of its hands-on guide to help flight dispatchers, pilots, air traffic controllers, flow management positions and airports understand how to best cooperate with the EUROCONTROL Network Manager to ensure efficient, optimal air traffic in the Network, in view of increased air traffic levels in summer 2024. Take a look at the #ATN2024 guide and share it with colleagues who may be able to profit from the information!

The European Commission has launched a call for proposals under the Connecting Europe Facility – Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Facility (AFIF). €1 billion is available to support the deployment of alternative fuels supply infrastructure for road, maritime, inland waterway and air transport along TEN-T, the trans-European transport network. This second phase of AFIF (2024-2025) will support accessible electric recharging points and hydrogen refuelling stations across the European Union's main transport corridors and hubs.

Join us for Connecting Europe Days 2024, Europe’s mobility flagship event in Brussels, Belgium. The event will bring together key transport stakeholders to discuss concrete measures and exchange good practices on creating a fully decarbonised, resilient, and digital transport network in Europe. Register now!

The theme for Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2024 is “Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility”. TRA is co-organised by the European Commission and is the foremost European transport event that covers all transport modes and all aspects of mobility. It is the largest European research and technology conference on transport and mobility. Sign up now!

The EU and its Member States committed to halving road deaths and serious injuries by 2030. Are we on track to reach that goal? The 2024 EU Road Safety Conference will offer a forum for analysis and exchange between senior EU politicians, policy makers and the wider European road safety community. We look forward to seeing you in Dublin!

The next edition of the ERTMS 2024 Conference will focus on the new features and functionalities integrated into ERTMS as a result of the CCS TSI revision. It will also give light to the successes and challenges of current deployment of ERTMS across Europe. With three days of panel sessions, workshops and exchange of experience, this conference is an excellent opportunity to meet and discuss ERTMS with EU policy makers, national authorities and industry representatives.

Register now for the second Transport Cybersecurity Conference organised by DG MOVE, in collaboration with DG CNECT, as well as key EU transport and cybersecurity agencies and stakeholders. The conference will provide a platform for European transport and cybersecurity actors to meet, share valuable insights, and exchange best practices and ideas.

The European Commission, European Union Aviation Safety Agency, EUROCONTROL, SESAR Deployment Manager and SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking are jointly organising the world’s first trajectory-based operations (TBO) symposium. The aim of the event is to showcase TBO’s benefits, and the progress being made in the realisation of the global TBO concept.

CINEA will be organising a virtual info day on 8 April 2024 to explain the priorities and the application steps of the 2024 CEF Transport Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Facility (AFIF) call for proposals. The call makes EUR 1 billion available: EUR 780 million under the General envelope and EUR 220 million under the Cohesion envelope.

The European Commission has launched new calls for projects under Horizon Europe's Work Programme for 2023-2024 Cluster 5 – which groups together topics on Climate Action, Energy and Mobility. A total of €310.05 million in EU funding is available. The overarching driver for this cluster is to accelerate the twin green and digital transitions and associated transformation of our economy, industry and society.

The corporate fleet markets for light and heavy-duty vehicles have a high yearly mileage and rapid vehicle turnover. They may therefore be well-suited to accelerating the move towards zero-emission mobility. Due to the broad role played by corporate vehicles across a spectrum of economic activities, the consultation aims to collect feedback from a spectrum of diverse stakeholders, considering the impacts an initiative in this field could have on all of them, as well as on society more broadly.