For this new ERA-NET Cofund Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (ENUAC) call, JPI Urban Europe and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) will address the urban mobility, accessibility, and connectivity challenge in the Sino-European cooperation, with a focus on knowledge and impact.
In answer to the global urbanisation challenge, JPI Urban Europe and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) agreed to work towards a long-term cooperation programme in the area of sustainable urbanisation, with different topics addressed in time. For the second call in this programme, the ERA-Net Cofund Urban Accessibility and Connectivity Sino-European call, the key themes of ‘Sustainable Urban Logistics in the Age of Digitisation’ and ‘Strengthening Climate-neutral Mobility’ have been selected.
Timeline
Theme 1: Sustainable Urban Logistics in the Age of Digitisation
This theme includes the following challenges:
– Impact of micro-delivery platforms on the overall efficiency, sustainability, security of transportation and logistics in urban environments;
– Effects of platforms on the well-being of crowdsourced riders;
– Design of urban multi-modal logistics systems;
– Freight vehicle parking planning and allocation in dense urban environments;
– Integration of transport and logistics operations.
Theme 2: Strengthening Climate-neutral Mobility
This theme includes the following challenges:
– The new connection to home;
– Old and new urban transportation modes;
– Urban development revisited and tactical urbanism initiatives;
– Multi-mode transport, resilient urban multi-mode traffic network.
Who can apply?
- Research organisations (such as universities, university colleges, research institutes or other authorities with research undertakings).
- Urban government authorities (such as regional and local government institutions, municipalities and municipal organisations, city authorities, urban governments, urban public administrations, and infrastructure and service providers).
- Companies and commercial organisations (from industry, cooperatives, small, medium and large enterprises), especially public utility companies (e.g., in the field of energy supply, other communal supply and disposal systems); infrastructure and service providers; real estate developers; investors; facility management providers; actors from the fields of energy, spatial and transport planning; transport authorities; entrepreneurs and innovators.
- Consumers (e.g. business enterprises and test households).
- Civil society (e.g. local and community organisations, non-governmental organisations, not-for-profit organisations, and inhabitants).