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Conference of European Directors of Roads

CEDR

Mission Statement: CEDR is an organisation of European national road administrations that promotes Excellence in the Management of Roads Vision Statement: CEDR consolidates its position as the platform for Road Directors and National Road Administrations (NRAs) that facilitates, reliably and effectively; Benchmarking and sharing of knowledge and best practices, Collaborations and sharing of resources in joint projects, and Professional networking and competence building. Strategic Goals: * Help NRAs to keep ahead of the curve, anticipate future trends and prepare them to face new challenges, * Reinforce NRAs role as key providers of efficient and seamless mobility from an end user perspective within the transport system, * Facilitate and optimise the efficient use of resources, making the best use of existing infrastructures, * Improve the safety and sustainability of roads, and reduce their environmental impact and carbon footprint.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Magda Kopczynska (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

12 Mar 2025 · Discussion on: - the collaboration between CEDR and DG MOVE - the investments in road infrastructures safety - the asset mapping being carried out by CEDR members - predictive maintenance supported by new technologies.

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport), Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

3 Feb 2023 · - Connectivity, automation and innovation - Decarbonization and electrification

Response to European Partnership for Safe and Automated Road Transport

27 Aug 2019

The Conference of European Road Directors (CEDR) represents national road authorities and appreciates the distribution of the Commission’s latest proposals for a European Partnership for safe and automated road transport. CEDR members are interested in the development and consequences of connected and automated mobility. Many CEDR members are actively involved in the development of such technologies and some could be interested to become actively involved in an appropriate partnership on the topic. In determining the suitability of the partnership (in both structure and subject), CEDR noted that Connected and Automated Mobility is a core aspect of the Digitalisation agenda that will influence all aspects of transport. This includes the aspects of traffic operations such as connected vehicles, integrated network management (including intermodality) as well as the planning and management of infrastructure with tools such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) and the Internet of Things. Perhaps more importantly it will influence the relation between transport providers and users as social media and the transparency of data are increasingly involved in both long-term planning and day-to-day management. The role in the financing of our transport systems is another area of great interest. CEDR notes that the form of cooperation to be taken up by individual NRAs, but stresses the importance of short- and long-term, concrete, and binding decision-taking processes within the public institutions and in cooperation with the industry to ensure that NRA investments to support deployment are made efficiently and publicly accountable. Therefore, CEDR will consider concrete proposals of the form of cooperation instruments that best align research with deployment in order to achieve CEDR’s strategic goals, especially the urgent challenges and opportunities related to environment, transport efficiency, road safety, and making the best use of existing infrastructures. CEDR notes the ongoing emphasis on automation and draws attention to the importance of establishing road infrastructure to support connectivity through deployment actions that extend the sensor horizon and further enable transport efficiency as well as automation on the road network. CEDR notes the significant improvement of traffic efficiency as well as safety as objectives of the partnership. In further developing the objectives, it would useful further examine how efficiency is defined. It could be noted that supported by industry, our partners in Shift2Rail adopted to mission to improve punctuality by at least 50%. From the road operator perspective, the following requirements are important for the next phase of cooperation in the mobility sector: - A strong basic framework for cooperation, that provides road operators (with their long planning horizons) with stability in the underlying conditions. - Flexibility in the topical focus to allow for adaptation of focus due to rapid technological progress. - Funding instruments that bridge the gap between fundamental research and full deployment and scale-up (see figure below). - Strong interaction between road operators and the automotive industry to make sure the future vehicle systems contribute to traffic safety and flow. - Involvement of road operators in future type approval regulation processes and temporary solutions for allowing self-driving systems on the road. - Involvement of road operators in development of connectivity for transport solutions. CEDR will continue to support national road authorities in this topic and looks forward to examining the opportunities for cooperation with industry and with the European Commission.
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Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

21 Sept 2018 · transport infrastructure

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

21 Sept 2018 · Innovation, automated driving

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

20 Oct 2017 · Future mobility, road safety

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

16 Sept 2016 · CEDR Strategy

Meeting with Joao Aguiar Machado (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

20 Jan 2015 · Cooperation CEDR/EC, Maintenance of the road network, Multimodality, ITS