European Innovation for Next Generation Electrified Vehicles and Components Electrification of road transport is a key challenge to reach the emission targets while enabling efficient mobility for persons and goods. Even though solutions already exist on the market, emobility is still a niche market. Main challenges for large scale deployment include higher maturity with respect to performance (e.g., range), development efficiency (e.g., timetomarket), or production costs. Additionally, an important market transformation currently occurs with the codevelopment of automated driving functions, connectivity, mobilityasaservice. In this context, the European Commission started different research programs in 2018 with a total volume of more than 50Mixe2x82xac. Target of this paper is to present an overview of these programs and discuss how this portfolio will provide significant advances for emobility relying on European technologies.

Mobility, Citizens, Innovation and Technology in Digital and Smart Cities Cities are constantly transforming and, consequently, attracting efforts from researchers and opportunities to the industry. New transportation systems are being built in order to meet sustainability and efficiency criteria, as well as being adapted to the current possibilities. Moreover, citizens are becoming aware about the power and possibilities provided by the current generation of autonomous devices. In this sense, this paper presents and discusses stateoftheart transportation technologies and systems, highlighting the advances that the concepts of Internet of Things and Value are providing. Decentralized technologies, such as blockchain, are been extensively investigated by the industry, however, its widespread adoption in cities is still desirable. Aligned with operations research opportunities, this paper identifies different points in which citiesxe2x80x99 services could move to. This also study comments about different combinatorial optimization problems that might be useful and important for an efficient evolution of our cities. By considering different perspectives, didactic examples are presented with a main focus on motivating decision makers to balance citizens, investors and industry goals and wishes.