Programme: Horizon Europe

Call: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D1-01

Project acronym: PATH2ZERO

Project name: Accelerating net-zero transformation by advancing Europe’s transport pathways and cross-sectoral synergies

Project summary: 
Transport's GHG emissions persistently rise, contrasting sectors where interventions have stabilised or reduced emissions. This reflects the complexity of reducing emissions in a sector tied to economic growth, urging advancement beyond high-level models to tailored, accurate, and robust policy impact estimates on transport activity and GHG emissions. Addressing this, PATH2ZERO equips stakeholders with a comprehensive knowledge base for deveoping, evaluating, and benchmarking net-zero transport pathways, incorporating crosssectoral assessments and promoting global collaboration. Employing a sophisticated methodology, in the first cycle, it harmonises data and maps, describes, validates, and quantifies EU policy elements, serving as modeling input (introducing "P2Z_DataSyncer" for data alignment and "P2Z_PolicyFrameMapper" for policy visualisation). An advanced model framework forecasts transport sector activity and emissions to 2050, integrating them across other sectors and countries for thorough GHG reduction evaluations including fairness and economic impact (developing "P2Z_Forecaster" for predictive modeling). Benchmarking follows to identify strategic gaps for achieving GHG targets per European and international targets, enhancing policy alignment and scenario comparisons (producing "P2Z_Evaluator" for policy effectiveness evaluation and "P2Z_Benchmarker" for pathway benchmarking). In the second cycle, PATH2ZERO refines national and cross-national policies for stricter policy frameworks, culminating in integrated, benchmarked pathways that inform EU strategies (generating "P2Z_PolicyFrameFinder" for policy framework development and "P2Z_SectoralAdviser" for sector integration). PATH2ZERO's collaborative approach, involving national and international stakeholder co-creation, ensures diverse, feasible and bestpractice-informed net-zero pathway development (creating "P2Z_Engager" for stakeholder engagement and "P2Z_Tool" for impact visualization).

Starting date: 01/01/2025
Ending date: 31/12/2027
Duration: 36 months

Project partners:
    1. DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT – UND RAUMFAHRT EV (DE) (Coordinator)
    2. TRT TRASPORTI E TERRITORIO SRL (IT)
    3. TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY (FI)
    4. UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID (ES)
    5. ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS (EL)
    6. KTI MAGYAR KOZLEKEDESTUDOMANYI ES LOGISZTIKAI INTEZET NONPROFIT KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG (HU)
    7. ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH (ICLEI EUROPASEKRETARIAT GMBH) (DE)
    8. RUPPRECHT CONSULT-FORSCHUNG & BERATUNG GMBH (DE)
    9. UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (UK)
    10. TRANSPORTOKONOMISK INSTITUTT (NO)
    11. ECOLE NATIONALE DES TRAVAUX PUBLICS DE L'ETAT (FR)
    12. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA (Italy) (Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering - ICEA)

Grant amount: 4.492.951,00Euro

Grant amount for Università degli Studi di Padova (Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering – ICEA): 140.000,00 Euro

Contact person at Università degli Studi di Padova (UNIPD), Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering – ICEA:
Prof. Massimo De Marchi massimo.de-marchi@unipd.it 

Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101184132