Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods (Horizon Europe)

The Destination 6 includes activities addressing safe and smart mobility services for passengers and goods. This Destination contributes directly to the Strategic Plan’s Key Strategic Orientations ‘Green transition’, ‘Digital transition’ and ‘A more resilient, competitive, inclusive and democratic Europe’. In line with the Strategic Plan, the overall expected impact of this Destination is to contribute to the ‘Multimodal systems and services for climate-neutral, smart and safe mobility’. The main impacts to be generated by topics under this Destination are:

Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM)

1. Safe, inclusive, affordable, attractive and accessible door-to-door (incl. shared) mobility for people and goods, including freight services and last-mile deliveries, in all weather conditions, seamlessly integrated with various transportation modes to ensure interoperability and full integration of CCAM solutions into the existing transport ecosystem;
2. Resilient, climate neutral, and sustainable mobility solutions with a reduced carbon footprint leading to greener, less congested, cost-effective and more demand-responsive transport everywhere;
3. Smart mobility services based on user-centric and explainable technologies and services, including digital technologies, advanced satellite navigation services, and smart traffic management (AI enabled when appropriate), considering the diverse needs and behaviours of categories of end-users;
4. Improvement of road safety thanks to the progressive transition of road traffic towards automation and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).

Multimodal and sustainable transport systems for passengers and goods

1. Advanced knowledge base and solutions for climate neutral and resilient infrastructure;
2. More efficient, sustainable, safe and competitive infrastructure construction, maintenance, inspection and monitoring in a “whole life cycle” approach;
3. Existing and new transport infrastructure is designed/adapted to support deployment of new technologies and fuels in view of improving its performance, user experience and safety, support seamless and efficient multimodality and limit transport related emissions;
4. Reduced emissions and increased efficiency and competitiveness of long-haul and regional freight transport and logistics, including the supply chain optimisation.

Safety and resilience

1. Drastic reduction in serious injuries and fatalities in road crashes involving cyclists, pedestrians and users of micro-mobility devices;
2. Predictive framework is established using AI and big data for transport safety;
3. Optimised Human-technology interaction that minimises confusion, distraction and thus collision risks;
4. Enhanced aviation safety under adverse weather conditions.

Call Topics with the submission deadline 20 Jan 2026

• HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-03: Next-generation environment perception for real world CCAM operations: Error-free and secure technologies to improve energy-efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and circularity (CCAM Partnership)
• HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-04: Integration of human driving behaviour in the validation of CCAM systems (CCAM Partnership)
• HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-05: Approaches, verification and training for Edge-AI building blocks for CCAM Systems (CCAM Partnership)
• HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-06: Federated CCAM data exchange platform (CCAM Partnership)
• HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-07: Innovative construction and maintenance, with the use of new materials and techniques, for resilient and sustainable transport infrastructure
• HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-08: Accelerating freight transport and logistics digital innovation
• HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-09: Reliable data and practices to measure and calculate transport emissions in multimodal transport chains
• HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-10: Integrating inland waterway transport in smart shipping and multimodal logistics chains
• HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-13: Safety of Cyclists, Pedestrians and Users of Micromobility Devices
• HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-14: Predicting and avoiding road crashes based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data
• HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-15: Icing in the context of sustainable aviation

Full text from the work programme "Climate, Energy and Mobility" (2025) can be found here.