The LeMesurier project held its Final Event on 4 December, hosted by the project´s dissemination leader ERTICO – ITS Europe. Project partners, representatives from CINEA, the 2ZERO Partnership, the European Commission and members from the Advisory Board took part. The event took place in Brussels as well as online, with around 40 participants in total. While the event marks the conclusion two-year project (which officially ends on 31 December), the discussions had a forward-looking approach, centred on LeMesurier´s legacy: a consistent and practical framework to measure the real impact of Europe’s zero-emission mobility research.
Bringing coherence to a fragmented landscape
One of the most relevant outcomes emphasised during the event was the project’s ability to connect information scattered across the 2ZERO project portfolio. By analysing more than 30 projects and nearly 40 KPIs, LeMesurier demonstrated how a unified assessment approach can break fragmentation and bring clarity to the Partnership’s overall contribution, as highlighted by Joao Duarte Miranda, LeMesurier Project Officer.
The project´s methodology combines the accounting of direct KPIs through the analysis of public data, a comprehensive KPI questionnaire and deep dive interviews with 2ZERO projects to determine which project outputs contribute to which parts of the 2ZERO Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). All consulted projects engaged with the assessment, resulting in full KPI coverage and a robust dataset to evaluate progress. The work established a foundation that future projects can build on to measure their own progress in ways that are comparable, transparent and better aligned with the EU’s objectives for climate-neutral road transport.
Another cornerstone of LeMesurier was the modelling work underpinning compound KPIs. Using the PRIMES-TREMOVE, MOVEID and COPERT/SIBYL models, the project explored how technological developments supported by 2ZERO are expected to influence energy consumption, emissions and efficiency.
The models converge on several encouraging trends:
- CO₂ emissions from road transport are projected to decrease significantly across all vehicle categories.
- Energy intensity of both personal and freight mobility is expected to decline steadily, driven by efficiency improvements and electrification.
- GHG intensity approaches near-zero levels by 2050, in line with the EU’s long-term climate objectives.
These projections highlight how research projects contribute not only to immediate innovation but also to broader sustainability targets, including the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
(All KPI visualisations will be made publicly available soon)
A foundation for future partnerships
LeMesurier KPI questionnaire, the methodological framework and the Digital Twin explorations were all designed to be reused, adapted and expanded. The project´s value reaches beyond 2ZERO. They offer future partnerships and proposals a clearer way to define KPIs, identify relevant baselines, manage expectations and demonstrate measurable progress. They also help evaluators and policymakers, at national as well as EU level, better understand where resources generate the greatest benefit.
Andrew Winder, co-leader of LeMesurier’s dissemination activity at ERTICO, noted that this process is strategically important for partners of LeMesurier, which are also involved in different 2ZERO projects. ERTICO, for example, is coordinating the 2ZERO projects ZEV-UP, ePowerMove and metaCCAZE, and is also a partner in EBRT2030 and NextETRUCK, all of which have objectives aligned to 2ZERO and which need to be measured in order to evaluate the expected impact. LeMesurier provides key approaches and benchmarks for this, so that we can also assess the value of these project results towards ERTICO’s goals and roadmap.
The path ahead
Several challenges were also acknowledged. Many projects were early in their lifecycle during the assessment, meaning some KPIs could only be partially evaluated. This reinforced an important recommendation: the process must continue beyond LeMesurier, maintaining and updating the assessment tools as more project results mature.
The project partners closed the event with a shared message: LeMesurier is not an endpoint, but a starting point. Its tools and methodologies should remain active, accessible and continuously updated. The KPI questionnaire and the KPI visualisations were recognised as a practical asset for project reviews, reporting and self-assessment.
If Europe wants to accelerate the transition to zero-emission road transport, it needs strong innovation, but also strong ways to measure it. LeMesurier has taken an essential first step, offering the foundations for a more coherent, resilient and strategically guided research ecosystem. The journey continues, with clearer direction than ever.