CARMONY 1st press release, paving the way for a new era of traffic orchestration in Europe
After its first year, the Horizon Europe project CARMONY has established the vision, architecture, and stakeholder community needed to transform how traffic is managed in increasingly complex mobility environments.
As European cities and transport networks face growing congestion, increasing mobility demand, and the rapid emergence of connected and automated technologies, traditional traffic management approaches are reaching their limits. The challenge is no longer simply managing vehicles on the road, but coordinating an increasingly diverse ecosystem of actors, services, infrastructure, and data streams in real time.
To address this challenge, CARMONY is developing a new approach based on traffic orchestration. Rather than treating traffic signals, vehicles, public transport services, road operators, and mobility providers as isolated elements, the project aims to enable them to work together as part of a connected and collaborative ecosystem. Through real-time data exchange, predictive decision-making, and coordinated actions, traffic orchestration has the potential to improve mobility performance while supporting broader societal goals such as safety, sustainability, efficiency, and quality of life.
During its first year, the consortium successfully completed the project’s conceptual and requirements phase, laying the foundations for future implementation and validation activities. Key achievements include the definition of the overall traffic orchestration vision, the design of the initial CARMONY Orchestrator architecture, the identification of governance and operational requirements, and the development of simulation and performance assessment frameworks.
A major milestone has also been the establishment of the CARMONY Outreach Group, bringing together experts and stakeholders from across Europe to contribute to the project’s development and ensure that future solutions respond to real-world needs. At the same time, communication and stakeholder engagement activities have helped build a growing community around the project’s objectives and vision.
The project is now moving towards the next phase, which will focus on implementation, integration, and validation activities. Pilot demonstrations in Murcia, Spain, and Luxembourg will provide opportunities to test and assess the orchestration framework in real-world mobility environments, helping to demonstrate its benefits for infrastructure operators, mobility providers, public authorities, and road users.
As connected, cooperative, and automated mobility continues to evolve, CARMONY is contributing to a future where transport systems become more responsive, coordinated, and efficient. By bringing together technology, infrastructure, services, and stakeholders, the project is helping shape the next generation of mobility management across Europe.
Learn more here: CARMONY_PR-1.pdf
