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PTIA - Sponsor of Impact mobility rEVolution’18

Impact mobility rEVolution’18 (IMR’18) is an international congress focused on the subject of intelligent mobility in Poland. National and local government representatives, academics, the automotive industry, municipal transportation companies as well as startups, innovators and companies looking to fund innovative ideas will all meet September 12^th-13^th in Katowice. They will share experiences, enter into cooperation and work together to build the future of intelligent mobility in our country.

AN AUTOMOTIVE REVOLUTION

The intelligent mobility revolution is predominantly a revolution of the automotive industry. The companies which have already joined it and those that will do so at Impact mobility rEVolution’18 in Katowice have a huge chance to not only survive but also experience dynamic growth. A discussion on the future of the automotive industry in Poland including, among others, talks regarding legislation with politicians, business models with experts from around the world and cooperation between businesses and the academic community – none of this can happen without a large number of PTIA companies being present.

INTELIGENT MOBILITY IN THE SERVICE OF MR. AND MRS. SMITH

John Smith, who lives in the Giszowiec district of Katowice, is taking his wife and kids on vacation to Spain. Taking his own car to the airport, which is located over thirty kilometers away, in the middle of afternoon rush-hour traffic would be risky. That’s why John reaches for his smartphone and, using a special app, orders a taxi – one that, thanks to a lane reserved specifically for those type of vehicles, gets him to Katowice Airport located in Pyrzowice in fifteen minutes. From there the Smith family gets on an autonomous bus, which takes them directly to the terminal where their plane is waiting to depart. At the same time a convoy of three autonomous trucks is transporting groceries to a store in Gdansk and the construction of special route, thanks to which ambulances can enter the hospital and take patients right to the door of the operating room, is being completed at the municipal hospital in Przbemyśl. The latter is made possible by the fact that the rescue vehicles used by the hospital are hydrogen-powered – making them silent and emission-free.

This is a vision of the future, but one that’s not as distant as it appears at first glance. The participants of Impact mobility rEVolution’18 want to shape the future of intelligent mobility so that, soon, integrated intelligent mobility systems responsible for transportation and travel - regardless of a particular journey’s distance – will make getting around faster, safer and unharmful to the environment. The tech-based race that is driving the intelligent mobility revolution has been going on for years – in the R&D labs of innovative automotive companies and at universities around the world. The fruits of this labor will soon be ripe and ready for picking – with the residents of Polish cities and boroughs also among those who will be able to take advantage of them.

THEMATIC TRACKS & SIDE ACTIVITIES OF IMR’18

The organizers expect over 2000 participants from around the world at IMR’18 – this includes more than 150 experts and over 80 exhibitors in the EXPO zone. The appearances and debates that take place during the congress will focus on seven main themes:

Urban mobility – including: increasing the ability to move around while decreasing the number of accidents, amount of traffic and pollution.
Financing, investments and PPPs – the most effective models for financing of projects related to the topic of sustainable cities – effectively achieving both business and public-interest objectives.
E-mobility and fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) – including: lithium-ion batteries vs. hydrogen fuel cells, e-vehicle performance, employment in the automotive industry, intelligent energy grids.
Freight transport and logistics – including: increasing efficiency and management of infrastructure, delivery drones, integrating urban product-transportation and logistic systems with long-distance networks, traffic management and efficient unloading of goods, the communication hub of the future
Connected & automated driving (CAD) – including: interoperability and digital infrastructure, communication technologies; politics, norms, legal frameworks and the cross-border promotion of “digitalizing transport”, Big Data in the transportation industry.
Rethinking mobility: evolving business models and new methods of transportation – including: Mobility as a Service (MaaS), new ways of getting around such as flying cars, air taxis or manned drones.
Environmentally-friendly sources of energy and energy storage – including: tech innovation as the key to controlling climate change, the unavoidable fall of the combustion engine and increasing number of electric vehicles, requirements in terms of energy supply and charging infrastructure.

Important side activities and other themes of IMR'18:

Conference Of Parties 24 (COP 24) – a meeting of environmental ministers from numorous countries around the world, organized ahead of the most important international forum on global climate change policies: the 24^th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 24) which will take place in Katowice along with the 14^th session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 14).
Central Transportation Hub – expansion and modernization of the transportation infrastructure as a key requirement of the mobility revolution in Poland.
“Program for Silesia” – how to best utilize the eco-mobility revolution as a driver of continued economic growth in Silesia as well as nationwide.

More info about the Congress: https://bit.ly/2OXDDsW

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Source: Impact CEE