Master in Smart Transport and Logistics for Cities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Master in Smart Transport and Logistics for Cities

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The analysis carried out in cooperation with Local Universities (LUs), city and national authorities, stakeholders, during ah-hoc meetings, highlighted the need to improve transport services in Georgia (GE) and Ukraine (UA), benefiting of the new opportunities offered by telematics which boost innovations in smart passenger and goods mobility. The increasing pressure on achieving societal goals within the transport sector (e.g., reducing traffic emission, improving traffic safety, reducing congestion) is one of the main drivers for its smart development.There are still many challenges for implementing smart mobility, and to what extent this potential will be materialized depends on its design and management by public authorities as well as by the competence of experts.Besides, a lack of experience on planning, management and control of these services emerged in GE and UA, also due to inadequate academic paths for supporting exploitation and dissemination of smart transport culture, including the limits of their research and their limited international relationships.Then, SmaLog was designed to overcome such identified lacks. SmaLog reformed and conformed the academic paths for supporting exploitation and dissemination of smart transport culture, including the overcoming of the limits of current scientific research and limited international relationships in involved PCs. LUs were the key-actors to start and consolidate this process.In SmaLog Consortium, 11 research institutions, 4 from EU, 5 from UA and 2 from GE have been collaborating to:•develop and test/implement/delivering Masters (120/90 ECTS) in smart transport and logistics for cities (SmaLog) in GE and UA;•support the implementation of laboratories dedicated to SmaLog;•disseminate through the newsletters, events, workshops, seminars, the importance of high educational programmes, and to promote research in urban transport and logistics exploiting the opportunities offered by new technologies;•set up national coordinated networks of HEIs, public bodies, private companies and NGOs involving them in the wider European research network on smart urban transport and logistics.Therefore, starting from this consideration, SmaLog strengthened the role of research in managing smart transport and logistics in cities on an evidence-base in UA and GE, and thus transferred to UA and GE the most recent knowledge and good practices developed in Europe as well as worldwide in the field of smart mobility.These aims were achieved thanks to a mix of activities such as: education, training, workshops, conferences and public events, web-based and physical dissemination and exploitation activities. The main outputs were:•SmaLog masters formally approved and delivered;•new and updated courses;•two first completed cycles of master students in SmaLog (first graduates);•distance learning advance courses for staff in SmaLog;•guidelines for developing PhD in PC HEIs in SmaLog;•teaching and training materials developed for supporting lectures’ delivering and students’ study;•staff training and students’ studying at ProgC HEIs;•guidelines for IQAS, and its implementations in PC HEIs;•internationalization of teaching/training on smart transport and logistics for cities;•internationalization of research on smart transport and logistics for cities;•urban smart transport and logistics networks in GE and UA;•active involvement of PC HEIs members in international smart transport and logistics for cities research;•implementation of local laboratories on urban smart transport and logistics;•dissemination and strengthening of culture of smart transport and logistics;•agreements of cultural and scientific collaboration between each PC and ProgC HEIs.

Project Website

http://smalog-2017.uniroma2.it/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 1479002 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TOR VERGATA & Country: IT

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA
• INSTITUTE OF MARKET PROBLEMS AND ECONOMICAL AND ECOLOGICAL RESEARCHES OF NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF UKRAINE
• O.M. BEKETOV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF URBAN ECONOMY IN KHARKIV
• LVIV POLYTECHNIC NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
• NATIONAL TRANSPORT UNIVERSITY
• ZHYTOMYR POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY
• LEPL TEACHING UNIVERSITY-BATUMI STATE MARITIME ACADEMY