In today's rapidly urbanizing landscape, Hilversum, Netherlands, pioneers the Digital Twin, a tool that revolutionizes urban planning. Integrating machine learning with data, it creates a dynamic, interactive city map, providing a real-time, detailed view of the urban environment. This innovation is a blueprint on street level for sustainable city-making, reflecting the collective will of its citizens, garnered through active participation and market research.

In constrained urban environments it is critical to effectively balance competing demands from various modes of transport. The Corridor Optimisation project is proving to be a low-cost high benefit operating solution utilising the existing asset base to maintain and improve ‘Efficiency & Reliability’ while addressing changing conditions on the network.

This study addresses challenges in estimating Origin-Destination matrices for multi-modal public transport networks. By integrating various data sources like boarding-alighting data and GTFS, we propose a novel "Entropy-weighted Ensemble Cost Features" method to enhance the performance of the Gravity model when OD matrices estimation for public transport networks.

What is distance charging? What is Road User Charging (RUC)? What is time of use charging What is the difference and what is the best approach? Brittany Croft will discuss how road user charging can look, feel and function in many different ways and is adaptable to serve the needs of a city or geographical region. RUC can adapt to city needs, as demonstrated by Kapsch's experience. Bulgaria's system showcases RUC's ability to meet policy, social, and environmental objectives for cities.

This presentation will be in update on the European MODI project, which has 30 partners from 8 countries, and aims to pave the way for the mass adoption of highly automated freight vehicles. This is done through demonstrations and by resolving barriers to the rollout of automated transport systems and solutions looking at the major supply chain links in Europe. The goals is containers can be put in a truck in Rotterdam harbour and driven to Oslo using Electric L4 CCAM heavy duty transport.