RITMEA

The RITMEA project "Research and Innovation in Eco-responsible and Autonomous Transport and Mobility" submitted to the 2021-2027 CPER for the Hauts-de-France region is a continuation of the momentum generated by the previous major CPER projects 2007-2014 with the CISIT project, and 2015-2020 with the ELSAT 2020, COPROP and SysMIA projects. RITMEA, which brings together 350 researchers in the region, will enable:

• Achieve scientific objectives linked to the work carried out within the FR CNRS TTM. They aim to develop models, methods, techniques and tools to improve transport systems in the broadest sense, both in terms of vehicles and infrastructure, but also to rationalize their use for greater efficiency, economy and less environmental impact through supply chain improvement, modal shift and the study of social and economic impacts.
• To structure regional research in a major sector of its economy by making it efficient, notably through the acquisition and development of medium-heavy technological resources shared between academic partners and with industrial partners
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• To strengthen the region's international visibility and technology transfer on the theme of transport and mobility, through collaborations between academics and industry, by means of contracts, CIFRE theses, and to establish startups using facilities such as Euratechnologies, Eurasanté or Transalley.

The RITMEA project is positioned within the MESRI themes of "environmental and energy transition" and "innovation as a lever for territorial cohesion", in line with the regional priorities defined in the Schéma Régional d'Enseignement Supérieur, Recherche et Innovation and the sectoral dynamics of the Schéma Régional de Développement Economique d'Innovation et d'Internationalisation. More specifically, RITMEA is part of the Third Industrial, Maritime and Agricultural Revolution strategy. RITMEA is built in coherence with the scientific themes and work groups of the CNRS GDR MACS (Modeling, Analysis and Management of Dynamic Systems), ROBOTIQUE, TOPOSURF, ..., and national roadmaps such as the "national strategy for the development of autonomous vehicles", Industrie 4.0, France Europe 2020 on its challenges: 2 "clean, safe and efficient energy", 3 "industrial renewal" and 6 "sustainable mobility and urban systems".

RITMEA's 6 strategic axes:

• Sustainability of materials and structures, life cycle and circular economy, new processes for new functionalities
• Energy efficiency; optimizing consumption in mobility and emission (gas and particulate decarbonated vehicles)
• Vehicle automation, environmental perception
• Operational management, mobility and logistics: Logistics applied to river transport, New mobilities (urban and freight)
• Silver economy / Smart cities: mobility support, disability and smart city
• Socio-economic impacts