Safe and Comprehensive Urban Development and Transport Management for Disruption-Resilient Operations (SCUDO)
About
SCUDO (Safe and Comprehensive Urban Development and Transport Management for Disruption-Resilient Operations) is a Horizon Europe project focused on building safer, more resilient, and energy-efficient transport systems across Europe. It addresses growing risks from climate change, pandemics, and geopolitical disruptions by developing AI-based forecasting, monitoring, and decision-support tools.
The Challenge
At its core, SCUDO aims to identify and classify scenarios of disruptive changes, assess their impact on different socio-economic groups, improve the monitoring of disruptions and the quantification of uncertainties, and develop methods for designing and managing transport systems based on the Safe System Approach. To support this, SCUDO will establish a Pan-European platform that integrates digital solutions and data to comprehensively evaluate the effects of various disruptions across different geographical areas and user groups.
Real-world use cases in Athens (Resilient Public Transport Management), Bavaria (Resilient Traffic Management), Amsterdam (Strategic Planning for Future Infrastructure), and Venice (Resilient Network Management in Complex Environments) ensure that SCUDO’s innovations are tested in diverse environments, reflecting real challenges in transport resilience.
Our Role in the Project
In the project, TUM leads the development of forecasting and simulation tools to anticipate transport disruptions and evaluate their impact on vulnerable populations. This includes AI-based models for predicting system states, estimating recovery times, identifying disruption events, and optimizing response strategies. As part of the Bavaria use case, the focus lies on resilient traffic management under extreme weather conditions and supply chain disruptions. Additionally, TUM contributes to the overall project methodology by analyzing and mapping socio-economic vulnerabilities across regions to better understand how different population groups are affected by disruptions, while also advancing real-time operational control strategies to enable safer and more adaptive transport networks.
Partners
For a detailed list of the partners participating in the project, visit the SCUDO-website.