On 22 June 2026, the ERTICO Academy and the network of ITS Nationals held their first webinar in a joint series, ‘Building Resilient Mobility Systems: Strengthening Physical, Digital, and Cyber Infrastructure through ITS’.
Bringing together speakers from the European and national levels, the webinar explored how Intelligent Transport Systems can strengthen the resilience of mobility networks by helping them anticipate, absorb, adapt to and recover from disruption.
One message emerged clearly throughout the discussion: resilience has moved well beyond its traditional association with roads and vehicles. Today, it sits at the intersection of climate, cyber security and physical infrastructure. As a strategic priority for Europe’s transport systems, it is also increasingly central to the development of many European policies, including the future Framework Programme (FP10) and the Multiannual Financial Framework, alongside the Cyber Resilience Act and the AI Act.
Connecting policy, technology and deployment
Opening the webinar, Joost Vantomme, CEO of ERTICO, framed resilience as the capacity to anticipate, absorb, adapt and recover across all transport modes. He highlighted the importance of connecting Europe's regulatory, policy and technological initiatives rather than approaching them in isolation, while providing an overview of the European Commission’s current agenda and ongoing initiatives in that area.
Roman Srp, President of the Czech ITS Association, explored resilience from a risk-analysis perspective. He described transport systems' critical infrastructure to be protected and an essential means of protecting society, highlighting how traditional operational risks increasingly intersect with climate change, energy security and geopolitical challenges. He also underlined the growing importance of the dual-use of civil ITS technologies.
From research to real-world resilience
Demonstrating how these principles are already being translated into practice, Ralf Willenbrock, Senior Project Manager at ERTICO, presented several European projects developing pan-European resilience platforms. Pilot sites in Athens, Bavaria, Amsterdam and Venice illustrated how different regions are addressing vulnerabilities ranging from flooding and extreme heat to sea-level rise.
Adding a historical and geographical perspective, Miroslav Petrovic, Chairman of ITS Serbia, on the long-term resilience of transport corridors across the Western Balkans. He noted that while fragmented infrastructure may provide a degree of cyber-resilience by circumstance, this protection naturally decreases as systems become increasingly interconnected.
Building the conversation
The panel discussion, moderated by Roozbeh Mohammadi, Senior Project Manager at ERTICO, converged on several shared priorities: technology and standards as the foundation layer, supported by enabling rather than over-prescriptive policy; the need to move beyond sectoral and national silos toward genuine coordination; and a stronger European voice in international standardisation.
The webinar attracted strong engagement, with 58 participants in attendance. The audience spanned various organisations across ITS Nationals, road and waterway operators, research institutions and industry, with a significant proportion at director level or above.
This session was the first in an ongoing series. Two further webinars with the ITS Nationals are planned, addressing the mobility data space and urban mobility planning respectively. Details will be shared through the same channels.
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