NME-Next Mobility Exhibition, an event dedicated to means, solutions, policies and technologies for a sustainable collective mobility system, and Transpotec Logitec, Italy’s leading event for road transport and logistics, will take place simultaneously at Fiera Milano, Rho from 8th to 10th May 2024, (until 11th May for Transpotec Logitec).
“The transport of goods and the mobility of people represent two separate markets, with their own modes and specific logics, but today they are united by the challenge of energy transition, ” explains Simona Greco, Exhibition Director of Fiera Milano. ” With this in mind, we have united Transpotec Logitec and Next Mobility Exhibition on the same dates, to more strongly narrate the common urgencies, but also the contribution that their innovation can offer.
At present, the new sensitivity towards the environment and the effects of climate change is central to the world of transport.
In order to achieve the goals set by the European Community, i.e. Zero Net Emissions by 2050, transport emissions would have to fall by more than 3% per year by 2030. This is an ambitious target, which calls for an unprecedented commitment from the operators of the two sectors.
“We are living in a moment of profound social transformation that is reflected in our way of living, interacting with others, and even getting around,” says Pierluigi Coppola, Professor of Transport Planning at the Politecnico di Milano. “In such a rapidly changing context, transport systems will have to show themselves capable of ensuring a transition towards inclusive and economically sustainable mobility models, capable of transforming the environmental challenge into a development opportunity. The trigger may come, on the one hand, from a change in individual behaviour and, on the other, from the exploitation of technological opportunities to develop a transport offer that allows rational and convenient choices, both for individuals and for collective sustainability.
Alternative motorizations – electric, hydrogen and, in particular for heavy transport, also biodiesel and biomethane – are already on the market, and experiments with connected and autonomous driving vehicles are gaining ground. Also growing, with good prospects for use in Italy too, is Urban Air Mobility, which involves the use of electric vertical take-off aircraft for passenger transport.
Big data analysis and digitalisation are also a high-profile innovation factor, useful for optimising transport and minimising its environmental impact.
But external factors also influence how the transport sector can evolve in a sustainable direction. The increase and ageing of the population and its polarisation towards urban centres will change the way in which both passenger and freight transport services are managed.
Finally, behaviour is also changing: the sharing economy is increasingly pervasive and it is expected that revenues from shared mobility could reach more than USD 1,500 billion by 2024 at global level, with growth of up to 3.5% in the medium term (2028).
In the face of such a complex scenario, Transpotec Logitec and NME-Next Mobility Exhibition will offer concrete answers to the operators of both sectors, fostering a fruitful dialogue around common development prospects.
For more information, visit www.nextmobilityexhibition.com.
