Innovation projects
Below you can find active and finalized projects with co-funding from Future Mobility.
Active Future Mobility-funded projects
A Design Framework for Women-Centered Mobility Hub
The project will develop a Design Framework for Women-Centered Mobility Hubs.
Bridging Technology and Sustainability for California’s Electric Vehicle Owners
CommuteSaver, a Swedish cleantech startup, is joining forces with Capgemini Applied Innovation Exchange (AIE) in San Francisco to unlock the untapped potential of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard...
Exchange for more BETs
The project goal is to have Sweden and the United States share knowledge and learn from each other’s experience with the early development of the zero-emission truck market.
Harvesting Road Data with Connected, Electric School Buses
The Future Mobility-funded strategic project, Harvesting Road Data with Connected, Electric School Buses brings together Univrses from Sweden and Highland Fleets from the USA in a collaborative effort...
JustFuture
This project aims to explore the role of on-demand transit in different contexts and assess its future possibilities for public mobility with a special focus on issues of transport equity and equality...
US–Sweden Knowledge Exchange for Connected Urban Freight Solutions
The US–Sweden Knowledge Exchange for Connected Urban Freight Solutions brings together the cities of Portland, Seattle, Gothenburg, and Helsingborg to address shared challenges in urban freight and...
Road Condition Data
In this research and innovation project, Klimator, a leader in applied road climatology, is working to adapt its condition models to the challenges of the United States. By partnering with the...
San Fernando Street Mobility Hubs - Community Engagement Strategy
While mobility hubs are gaining traction worldwide, San José is in the planning stages of establishing such integrated systems. This project focuses on developing a comprehensive community engagement...
Stilfold x California Metals Sustainable Mobility
The project’s idea is to create a Digital Twin pilot that tracks the lifecycle of a sustainable mobility device —from raw material sourcing to customer. It delivers a Digital twin integrating...
Sustainable and low-cost methodologies for manufacturing high-performance composite materials
The project will investigate and optimize high performance composite manufacturing through liquid composite moulding (LCM) with regards to environmental impact, cost, and cycle time.
Transatlantic Cooperation for Leveling Up MaaS
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) has been characterized as an innovation aimed at addressing issues related to sustainable mobility by providing an alternative to private car ownership.
Transit Oriented Development (TOD), mobility hubs and Shared Autonomous Vehicles (SAVs)
This project aims to support the decarbonization of transport and reduce oil dependency by developing innovative, shared mobility solutions that integrate with public transport and address the "first-...
Triggering Regional Accessibility and Networks for Sustainable Intelligent Transportation
This project addresses the challenge of offering and interweaving eco-friendly transportation choices in suburban areas with those in city centers.
WAlking and PArking Dynamics of Drivers (WAPADD): Analysis and Model Development for Sustainable Urban Delivery
The project addresses the critical but often overlooked aspects of delivery drivers' walking and parking behaviors in urban logistics.
Wildlife-Strike Prevention with Flox at Silicon Valley Airport
Traditional wildlife management methods—such as patrolling with vehicles, using pyrotechnics, trained dogs and gunshots—are proving inefficient at airports. This issue has opened the door for...
Concluded Future Mobility-funded projects
Learning for Deployment of Robotaxis at Scale
As the global race to deploy automated vehicles in urban environments accelerates, the project "Learning for Deployment of Robotaxis at Scale" identified key lessons that can inform future...
Dashboards for Decision Support in Highway Congestion Management
Congestion is a growing problem in cities across Sweden and the United States, leading to increased travel times, fuel consumption, and emissions. To address this, researchers from Linköping...
Implementation Roadmap for Swedish Automotive Vehicle-to-Grid Services in California
As electric vehicles grow in number, the question of how to balance energy demand and supply becomes critical. This project, led by Polestar with support from Future Mobility, explored the potential...
CyberMAP
Cyber-physical Multi-factor Authentication-based Positioning for Autonomous Vehicles
Streetmeter
The Streetmeter project has successfully concluded, delivering an innovative analysis tool designed to transform car-dominated urban spaces into vibrant, human-centered streets. This research and...
AI Aware
In the AI Aware project series, a collaborative cloud approach has been researched to enable increased awareness of vehicles. The recent AI Aware project used the radical developments that have...
Shared Standards for Shared Mobility
Given the digitalization of shared mobility, the need for participating actors to collaborate around central digital technologies increases. One aim of the project is to facilitate knowledge exchange...
Sweden California CoLab
An innovative agenda for future collective mobility has been brewing in the Nordics, in a consortium called “Rådslaget”. The work evolved from the challenging situation during the pandemic and points...
Advancing mobility through sustainable, robust, and innovative battery technology
The project aims to revolutionize sustainable mobility by collaborating to develop advanced battery technologies with enhanced energy density, faster charging capabilities, and improved life cycles.
Carbon free zone for transportation of goods in San José
Through a Swedish consortium of companies all within emission-free transportation, the project intends to show how the city of San José can practically realize becoming a climate-neutral city by the...
Results from innovation projects
CyberMAP – Results from a Research Initiative on Trusted Positioning for Autonomous Vehicles
The CyberMAP project, funded by Vinnova through the Future Mobility, has investigated how cyber-physical infrastructure can enhance the reliability and integrity of positioning systems in autonomous...
Results from transatlantic collaboration on traffic management
The project Dashboards for Decision Support in Highway Congestion Management is now entering its final phase, and the collaboration between Linköping University (LiU), KTH Royal Institute of...
Webinar recap: New digital tools to reimagine car-dominated streets
On April 23, professionals from across Sweden, the United States, and beyond gathered online to explore how digital tools like Streetmeter and Streetmix—including one developed through a Future...
Transatlantic collaboration in mobility data standardization
In the rapidly advancing landscape of shared mobility and digitalization, the need for collaboration on central digital technologies becomes vital. While established Nordic partnerships are working...
Successful knowledge exchange between Sweden and the USA to strengthen sustainable mobility
Sweden and California, renowned for their innovation cultures, have collaborated in the Sweden California CoLab project to share experiences, promote sustainable mobility, and reduce emissions from...
Take part of the results from AI AWARE via the recorded version of the Final Conference
How can data be used to fuel accident risk estimation algorithms? Can digital safe speed recommendations replace existing speed limits? What policy differences exist when exploring data from the...
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What we offer actors in the United States
Sweden is very active in the development and use of greener vehicles and fuels. It has a strong public transport system, high sustainability ambitions and is considered among the most innovative...
What we offer actors in Sweden
Collaboration with the United States can deliver innovations that would not be possible to obtain otherwise. Collaboration with the United States can deliver innovations that would not be possible to...
