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EUMOB
Digitized and connected
mobility
EUMOB is a cross-border study between Spain and France, based on road digitalization and pioneer in Europe. A project to promote safer, smarter and more sustainable mobility.
About EUMOB
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EUMOB is a cross-border study between Spain and France, based on road digitalization and pioneer in Europe. A project to promote safer, smarter and more sustainable mobility.
About EUMOB
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The project proposes a comprehensive feasibility study for the digitalization of the road at a European level between two countries to achieve a harmonized deployment of advanced services for connected mobility and the subsequent development of business ecosystems based on services for the sector of transport and mobility.
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Autopistas, the subsidiary of Abertis in Spain, will be in charge of coordinating the EUMOB project and with the participation of Tradia Telecom (Cellnex) and Cellnex France. This is a project approved by the European Commission and presented within the framework of the CEF-2 5G Corridors program, within the modality of studies.
Benefits to society
Safety
EUMOB will allow to reduce accident rates or to minimize probability of increasing victim severity during in-road time. Thanks to digitization, intelligent traffic analysis and prediction will help prevent accidents and reduce response time when they occur. The objective is to move from a reactive traffic management to a predictive one.
Traffic efficiency
Capacity to improve traffic flow through reduced congestions, stop-and-go events, roadworks duration, hard braking situations… EUMOB will increase the sensorization of road infrastructures and their communications with the most innovative technologies to generate and communicate in real time more “anticipated” traffic management strategies.
Environment
Digitalization can be an ally to reduce fuel consumption and to streamline energy consumption. Thanks to EUMOB’s traffic management solutions, traffic density will be improved and co-management will be reduced, so that it will have a direct impact on reducing users’ fuel consumption and pollution.
Economic potential
The digitalization of roads contributes to the growth of the different economic sectors involved: transportation, mobility, energy, and telecommunications sectors, and could indirectly also affect other sectors such as tourism, agriculture, and industry.
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The EUMOB project is to examine the comprehensive feasibility of digitalising a road at the European level between two countries to deliver harmonised rollout of advanced services for connected mobility.
The EUMOB project is to examine the comprehensive feasibility of digitalising a road at the European level between two countries to deliver harmonised rollout of advanced services for connected mobility.
Autopistas, a subsidiary of Abertis in Spain, is to coordinate the EUMOB project, a cross-border study between Spain and France anchored in road digitalisation which also involves Tradia Telecom (Cellnex) and Cellnex France. The project is approved by the European Commission and presented as part of the CEF-2 5G Corridors programme in the studies category.
EUMOB involves a comprehensive feasibility study for road digitalisation at the European level between two countries to deliver harmonised rollout of advanced services for connected mobility and the subsequent development of service-based business ecosystems for the transport and mobility sector. The feasibility study will look at the French and Spanish sections of the Atlantic and Mediterranean cross-border corridors which are in the European TEN-T network.
“Coordinating this European road digitalisation project demonstrates our firm commitment to meeting new mobility challenges such as getting high-capacity roads ready for electric, connected and autonomous vehicles while ensuring safer, smarter and more sustainable mobility,” says Daniel Vilanova, managing director of Autopistas.
“Cellnex is passionate about the benefits which digitalisation of these road corridors will bring, not only for connected vehicles but also for road network managers, emergency services, logistics and fleet operators and for passengers themselves, coupled with unlocking the economic development of their areas of influence,” adds Eduardo Fichmann, Global Innovation & Product Strategy Director at Cellnex.
Further progress towards connected mobility
The EUMOB project’s purpose is to assess the customisation and adaptation requirements for road digitalisation along these corridors by examining their costs, measuring the expected socioeconomic and environmental impact and engaging local stakeholders to gain their support.
The expected outcomes of the study include a solution model setting out the technical implementation of the digitalisation of the infrastructure, a return on investment model and a business plan outlining how the digitalised infrastructure components are to be supported and operated.
This will furnish the plans and background needed for a follow-up project which will roll out the solution model in the designated corridors.