The SMARTIN project, funded by the Horizon Europe programme, has officially started its activities with a two-day kick-off meeting on 22–23 September 2025 in Barcelona, hosted by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. The event gathered 17 partners from across Europe to set the direction for the next three years of collaboration.
Coordinated by ERTICO – ITS Europe, SMARTIN takes a holistic approach to bridge the gap between infrastructure management needs and emerging digital solutions. The project aims to revolutionise the way Europe monitors, manages and optimises its transport infrastructure, paving the way for safer, more efficient, inclusive and sustainable mobility.
Launched on 1 July 2025, SMARTIN – Smart digital solutions for multimodal, accessible, resilient, user-centric urban infrastructure – addresses one of today’s key challenges: meeting growing mobility needs while reducing emissions and improving safety. To achieve this, SMARTIN will harness artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of Things and 5G connectivity to develop advanced tools for monitoring, predictive maintenance and performance assessment. These data-driven solutions will strengthen proactive management of transport networks, improve the safety and resilience of infrastructure, and support more inclusive, efficient and low-emission urban mobility systems.
A key ambition of SMARTIN is to ensure that digitalised infrastructure assets and mobility optimisation services can operate in harmony. Through AI-driven analytics that combine data from multiple sources and geospatial levels, the project will enable proactive incident detection and support infrastructure providers in efficient operations and maintenance management. This will be achieved through the development of an integrated platform that brings these technologies together as a coherent system of systems, creating interconnected synergies between infrastructure, mobility services and digital tools.
SMARTIN follows a co-creation approach, engaging stakeholders in the design and development of user-centric solutions that are both scalable and transferable. The project’s innovations will be tested and validated in real-world conditions across four European pilot sites, each addressing different mobility challenges and contexts:
• Barcelona (Spain): improving micromobility safety with a focus on cycling infrastructure;
• Turin (Italy): introducing dynamic lane management supported by digital twins;
• Latvia: enhancing multimodal coordination between regional bus and rail networks;
• Budapest (Hungary): increasing efficiency and safety in inland waterway transport.
Georgia Aifandopoulou, SMARTIN Technical Coordinator, commented:
SMARTIN will consolidate innovative digital tools, data-driven solutions, AI models and user-centric services for managing and operating transport infrastructure to facilitate safe, resilient and accessible multimodal transport. The excellence of the consortium partners and their experience will secure scalable results that will improve safety and efficiency in the long term.
SMARTIN directly supports key EU priorities: the European Green Deal, Vision Zero (eliminating road fatalities by 2050), and the Digital Europe agenda. Through collaboration and innovation, the project will help shape a transport system that is not only smarter and greener, but also more inclusive and resilient for future generations.