The star of the EU-funded FRONTIER project on traffic management shined brightly recently at the Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2024 in Dublin, Ireland, from 15-18 April. Armed with three years’ worth of innovations and cutting-edge technologies in traffic management, FRONTIER teamed up with another Horizon 2020 project, ORCHESTRA in a final event at TRA 2024 to unveil the projects’ exciting results and demonstrate developed solutions. This was dubbed as the “Lunch and Learn Session” where visitors could sit down with their food at lunch and learn about “Multimodal and Resilient Traffic Management of the Future”. It was organised as a side event of TRA 2024, gathering more than 80 participants in the uniquely beautiful setting of the RDS Concert Hall.

It is worth noting that TRA is considered Europe’s foremost transport event covering all
transport modes and all aspects of mobility, being organised every two years and attracting
thousands of visitors and stakeholders concerned with transport. The modes of transport
featured at TRA included road, rail, waterborne and aviation, addressing as well cross-model
aspects of transport and representing the ideal backdrop for FRONTIER.

As part of its “Lunch and Learn” session FRONTIER’s experts presented and demonstrated
the project’s major results, highlighting their importance for addressing traffic-related
challenges in the Europe’s transport field. The FRONTIER platform, known as the
Autonomous Network and Traffic Management Engine or ANTME, was also unveiled at the
event. It successfully showed how it can revolutionise traffic control by handling traffic
incidents across different modes of transport, demonstrating to the audience its major
components and functions. The views of transport stakeholders who already successfully
tested the platform in one of the FRONTIER’s pilots in Oxfordshire, UK, were also shared
with the event’s participants.

In addition, the event hosted experts from other ongoing innovative EU-funded transport
projects from the Multimodal Traffic Management Cluster (MTMC), namely TANGENT, DIT4TraM, SYNCHROMODE and DELPHI. The discussions focused on the overall concepts
and the results of the Horizon 2020 projects that were coming to an end, but also on the
scope and challenges of the new MTMC Horizon Europe projects.

Overall, thanks to the insightful presentations and valuable panel discussions, the event
represented an excellent opportunity for transport operators, policymakers, researchers and
industry players. It enabled them to delve deeply into the latest research results, innovations
and disruptive technologies that can usher in a new era in the rapidly evolving field of
multimodal traffic management. For FRONTIER and its partners, whose topics of expertise
centred around state-of-the-art network and traffic management, the projects’ outcomes will
undoubtedly make Europe’s transport modes safer and more efficient.

Get in contact with FRONTIER:

• Ms Dariya Rublova (Dissemination and Communication Manager, Press issues –
  Netcompany-Intrasoft): Dariya.Rublova@netcompany.com
• Ms Fanny Breiul Aymami (Project Coordinator – FUNDACIO EURECAT):
  fanny.breuil@eurecat.org
• info@frontier-project.eu