IV2Splus
Strategy Programme on Mobility and Transport Technologies for Austria

IV2Splus - Intelligent Transport Systems and Services plus - operates as a continuation of the successful forerunner programme IV2S (2002-2006), but goes beyond IV2S in significant aspects and establishes new emphases and core areas of content. The programme focuses on expanding excellence in research and development through stronger international embedding of successfully established national R&D competences, with the goal of increased integration of these competences into international, industrial, value-creation chains. Austria should thereby also make a significant contribution to the development of future transport and mobility solutions at European level.

Social, economic and technological developments are imposing increasingly complex demands on the transport system and its capacity. New technologies and innovations can make a key contribution towards designing sustainable, intelligent mobility and transport systems and are opening up new business opportunities for the transport engineering sector.

The economy profits not only from an efficient transport system, but also from the market launch and dissemination of new products and services. Transport technologies therefore make a vital contribution to improving economic competitiveness and safeguarding Austria as a business location.

Given the strong growth in transport – forecasts for 2020 predict an increase in goods transport of 30 percent and in passenger transport of 20 percent – and given the particular transport policy and environmental policy challenges currently faced (for example: climate protection goals), in the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for Research and Technological Development (2007-2013), the area of transport was defined as a strategic focus for research, with a significantly enhanced research budget.