European research project Mithos is working to develop an AI-powered decision support system for the monitoring, redesign and maintenance of multimodal transport infrastructures.
The aim is to manage roads, railways, cycle paths and ports more efficiently, safely and sustainably.
The consortium brings together 14 organisations from seven European countries and the concept is being tested in four pilot regions: Bilbao (Spain), Hamburg (Germany), Vienna/Linz (Austria) and Thessaloniki (Greece).
Mithos develops a cloud-based platform that merges data from different sources into a Federated Smart Data (FSD) module, and this data forms the basis for an AI-supported decision support system.
One of the partners, the AIT (Austrian Institute of Technology) is working with Austrian road operator Asfinag to coordinate the pilot for motorway and cycle infrastructure.
"The project offers an outstanding approach of data acquisition, AI-supported processing and realistic pilot tests to improve multimodal mobility systems," explains road safety researcher Paul Rosenkranz, AIT project manager.
"Existing and new data are merged with innovative technologies to create a powerful decision support system that supports stakeholders in topics such as road construction, condition assessment and maintenance."
An impact assessment module will be developed to assess the overall benefit and sustainability of the proposed measures, and
Multimodal transportation faces a number of challenges, not least in terms of inefficient interfaces between transport modes, high operating costs and fragmented data processing.
Mithos is designed to overcome these, using artificial intelligence.
Who is in the Mithos project consortium?
• Asociacion Centro Tecnológico CEIT (coordinator)
• AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
• DLR German Aerospace Center
• Ethniko Kentro Erevnas kai Technologikis Anaptyxis (Certh)
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• Patric Prague Advanced Technology and Research Innovation Center
• IFP Energies Nouvelles
• JKU Johannes Kepler University Linz
• Keita Mobility Factory
• Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences
• Association of the Mobility and Logistics Cluster of the Basque Country
• Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
• Bilbao City Council
• Organismos Sygkoinoniakoy Ergou Thessalonikis
This project receives funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101202959.
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