European Partnership for Safe and Automated Road Transport

Since its inception the European Automobile Clubs asbl (EAC) comprising currently six member clubs from Austria, Germany, Slovakia as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina representing above 3 million road users has been advocating for effective harmonisation of rules and regulations as concerns the use of motorised vehicles across Europe in order to enhance road safety and sustainable mobility in and beyond the European…

The Conference of European Road Directors (CEDR) represents national road authorities and appreciates the distribution of the Commission’s latest proposals for a European Partnership for safe and automated road transport. CEDR members are interested in the development and consequences of connected and automated mobility.

The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) is a global, cross-industry organisation of more than 120 companies from the automotive, technology, and telecommunications industries (ICT), working together to develop end-to-end connectivity solutions for future mobility and transportation services.

Chalmers University of Technology is a leading European University conducting multidisciplinary research including topics relevant for the European Commission’s Proposal for a Council Regulation for a European Partnership for Safe and Automated Road Transport under Horizon Europe. We welcome the Commission’s initiative to open future research strategies to multi-stakeholder partnerships.

Robert Bosch GmbH highly appreciates the preparation of a new European R&I partnership for Safe and Automated Road Transport by the European Commission - in close collaboration with the Member states - as a priority in the strategic planning for Horizon Europe.

DEKRA welcomes the programme Horizon Europe framework and the initiative to establish an R&I partnership in the area of “Safe and Automated Road Transport”. DEKRA believes that Option 1 (Co-programmed European partnership) represents a solid starting point that can be established in a fast, flexible, and efficient way.

Polis welcomes the efforts to establish a Partnership for safe and automated road transport. Representing local and regional authorities competent for mobility planning and management, as well as road operations, we would like to emphasise the importance to engage the local level the process of establishment, and in the actual Partnership, whatever form or function this might have.

AMICE (Association of Mutual and Cooperative Insurers in Europe) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the European Commission’s roadmap on a European partnership for safe and automated road transport.

IRU, the world road transport organisation, welcomes the progress made towards an agreement for the next framework programme Horizon Europe. The European Partnership for Safe and Automated Road Transport paves the way for enhanced cooperation across the road transport sector. IRU believes that Option 1 represents a solid starting point as it can be established in a quicker and more efficient way.

The European Tyre & Rubber Manufacturers Association (ETRMA) has been a committed supporter of clean, safe and connected mobility solutions in Europe. In this regard, the tyre industry welcomes the European Commission’s initiative to establish a long-term framework for research and pre-deployment programmes for cooperative, connected and automated mobility (CCAM) across the EU.

TomTom welcomes the prospect of a new European Partnership for safe and automated road transport via the Horizon Europe programme. It is essential that the development of the Partnership's work programme is conducted in a fair and transparent manner giving industry the possibility to shape research topics along with governmental bodies. The new EU CCAM Platform should be a key instrument to drive this activity.

CLEPA welcomes the initiative of the European Commission to set up the European Partnership for Safe and Automated Road Transport, under the upcoming Horizon Europe, the future EU’s future Research and Innovation (R&I) Programme for 2021-2027.

FIA Region I believes that a series of challenges for safe automated road transport can better be addressed by a co-programmed European partnership of coordinated actions from public authorities and industries (option 1). The Partnership should help defining a long-term framework for the strategic planning of research and pre-deployment programmes.

Kapsch TrafficCom welcomes the European Commission’s initiative for European Partnership. Research in the field of automated road transport requires close cooperation between various stakeholders to create a technical a regulatory environment that enables the automation of road transport.

Lille Metropole, the fourth largest metropolitan authority in France, representing about 1.2 million inhabitants looks forward for the European Partnership for safe and automated road transport. We want to highlight Lille’s citizens’ views on the matter (collected through a local debate on the 12th April) as well as questions raised by local public administrators.

The European Automotive Research Partners Association – EARPA – representing 52 RTOs active in road mobility research, appreciates the developments and discussions towards a European Partnership for Safe and Automated Road Transport.

The Volvo Group welcomes the progress made towards an agreement for the next framework programme Horizon Europe. For the key challenges of Connected Automated Mobility (CAM or CCAM) and self-driving vehicles, the Volvo Group calls for a co-programmed partnership (option 1) across industry sectors and value chains: • The co-programmed partnership will enable quick and timely research actions; the institutionalised…

AVL is active in the road transport sector in the view of development of software methods and tools for autonomous transport. Furthermore, AVL provides test methods as well as equipment for the development and optimization of systems.

Ford-Werke GmbH welcomes the progress made towards an agreement for the next framework programme Horizon Europe. For the key challenges of Connected Automated Mobility (CAM or CCAM) and self-driving vehicles, Ford-Werke GmbH calls for a co-programmed partnership (option 1) across industry sectors and value chains: • The co-programmed partnership will enable quick and timely research actions; the institutionalised…

DAF Trucks N.V. welcomes the progress made towards an agreement for the next framework programme Horizon Europe. For the key challenges of Connected Automated Mobility (CAM or CCAM) and self-driving vehicles, DAF Trucks N.V calls for a co-programmed partnership (option 1) across industry sectors and value chains: • The co-programmed partnership will enable quick and timely research actions; the institutionalised…

ERTRAC welcomes the preparation of a European Partnership for Safe and Automated Road Transport under Horizon Europe. Collaborative research in the field of Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM) will help Europe to achieve safer, cleaner, smarter and more efficient mobility solutions.

Key Autonomous Vehicle Industry Participation - Lead - SAE On-Road Autonomous Driving SAE Model and Simulation Task Force - Member SAE ORAD Verification and Validation Task Force - Expert - DIN/SAE International Alliance for Mobility Testing & Standardization (IAMTS) group to create sensor simulation specs - Assisting UNECE WP.29 Autonomous Vehicle Testing Efforts - Stakeholder for UL4600 - Creating AV Safety…

The European Green Vehicles Initiative Association (EGVIA) welcomes the progress made towards the partnership’s definition in the framework programme for research and innovation, Horizon Europe. While the decarbonisation challenge should be tackled under the future “2Zero” co-programmed partnership, the challenge of connected automated mobility is proposed to take the form of an institutional partnership.

Volvo Cars welcomes the progress made towards an agreement for the next framework programme Horizon Europe. For the key challenges of Connected Automated Mobility (CAM or CCAM) and self-driving vehicles, Volvo Cars calls for a co-programmed partnership (option 1) across industry sectors and value chains: • The co-programmed partnership will enable quick and timely research actions; the institutionalised partnership…

The European Council for Automotive R&D (EUCAR), representing the major European automobile manufacturers in their common research activities, welcomes the progress made towards an agreement for the next framework programme Horizon Europe.

About 30,000 people were killed on the European roads in 2018. Just imagine a stadium, full of 100,000 people, attacked by a missile, killing 30,000 of these people and leaving the rest 70,000 with heavy injuries for their lifetime, in a second. It'll be a horror. But when the same happens on the roads, nobody cares.