Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) is a crucial element in achieving global targets that involve safety, sustainability, inclusivity, accessibility, urban development and collaboration. Some of its clear contributions include: 

• Reducing road crashes by enabling vehicles and infrastructure to ‘communicate’ with one another. 

• Compensating for human error in their influence in road traffic crashes. 

• Improves traffic flow. 

• Cutting emissions by managing vehicles and infrastructure more efficiently. 

• Contributing to greener transport systems through electrification of vehicles, from passenger to freight. 

• Generating transport and mobility data to aid in the development of road infrastructure. 

IRF Acting Director General (DG) Gonzalo Alcaraz attended the ITS World Congress 2025 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, USA from the 24th to the 28th of August 2025.  

Themed “Deploying Today, Empowering Tomorrow”, the Congress brought together world leaders, decision-makers and representatives from the public and private sectors to discuss the implementation of new technologies and solutions like CCAM that are essential for smarter transportation systems. 

The IRF led a sessions titled “Advancing CCAM Deployment: Augmented Physical, Digital and Communication Infrastructure for Smart Mobility”. The IRF session elaborated on how different elements of CCAM needed to merge and evolve so that they can better support safe, scalable and sustainable mobility.  

The different topics of the session included:  

TOPIC 1: Road Operator Roles in CCAM 
Led by MAPtm Strategic Advisor on Connected and Automated Mobility Tom Alkim, this topic discussed how CCAM could increase safety and move society closer toward vision zero by increasing accessibility of mobility services, reducing emission from transport and addressing driver shortages.  

Stakeholders must integrate CCAM into the broader transport system and to co-exist with other forms of mobility with key stakeholders needed to take the lead.  

Mr. Alkim presented the following road manager roles in CCAM and digital representations:  

• Road managers have active roles in digital representation in their core business or road maintenance and asset management. They also use models in road planning and building.  

• Road manager roles will evolve in collaboration with the ecosystem stakeholders depending on the case of CCAM use and its requirements.  

TOPIC 2: Enabling the Transportation Evolution  
Presented by Vice President (VP) for Emerging Markets of Kapsh TrafficCom Lauri Brady, the topic focused on the importance of connected vehicles.  

Connected vehicles lead to more efficient multi-modal transportation within and around urban areas, driving economic growth. It also results in a cleaner environment, enabling more access and use that attracts residents and businesses.  

Some connected vehicle solutions and services include Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Mobility and Safety, Integrated Data Platform, Demand Management, Payment Services, Technology Neutral, Multi-Purpose Apps, Data Hubs & Analytic Solutions, Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Coordination and Supervision or Orchestration. 

VP Brady explained that, to enable transportation evolution, three initial steps need to be implemented.  

• Connected Vehicle Hardware – In-vehicle and roadside solution. 

• Corridor and Device Management – Connected Vehicle (CV) data access and device management through the monitoring, operation and maintenance of CV devices and sensors. It could also include the collection, storage and distribution of CV messages and data usage. 

• Connected Corridor – Digital corridors that enable cross-domain services and solutions through operationalisation of data & insights, flexible platform suites for highway and urban environments and transition legacy systems on digital infrastructure. 

Infrastructure Solutions demonstrates transport evolution through situational awareness, functional safety, traffic efficiency and environmental sustainability, Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) support where traffic safety and mobility insights are translated from sensors and cameras, Deep Learning Versatile Platform (DLVP) that translates input into digital data and Traffic Flow Optimisation among others.  

TOPIC 3: Efforts Towards Realising Automated Mobility Services 
This presentation was led by Manabu Umeda, Project Researcher of Mobility Innovation Collaborative Research Organisation, Collaborative Research Coordinator from the University of Tokyo  and member of the Mobility Innovation Alliance Japan.  

The focus of the intervention was on the establishment of the Mobility Innovation Alliance as a key player in collaborating with global participants to realise mobility innovation.  

The Alliance is creating basic goals and requirements for cooperative systems that other regions can replicate and deploy.  

From 2021 to 2023, it set up prior pilot tests that used a level 2 automated bus with a driver and installed cooperative roadside equipment on public roads and developed elemental technologies for cooperative systems. In 2024, the Alliance held public road tests with the development of the bus capable of L4 automated operation. They also developed and installed Roadside Unit (RSU) for cooperative L4 services. 

Currently, in 2025, the Alliance is leading pilot tests with operations as level 4 mobility services. The results are the commercialisation and expansion of CCAM to other regions.  

TOPIC 4: Smarter Motorways and the Intersection with Connected & Autonomous Vehicles  
Led by National Transport Research Organisation (NTRO) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Michael Caltabiano, this topic explored the integration of transport solutions in road, rail, ports and airports in areas on asset performance, infrastructure measurement, safer smarter infrastructure, sustainability and materials performance, structures & certifications, data and technology and transport futures.  

Managing motorways and autonomous vehicles begins with understanding current behaviours and predicting lane capacity and use.  

CEO Caltabiano explained that planning, design and operation of motorways requires quantitative understanding of the relation between capacity loss and Lane Changing Concentration (LCC). A better understanding of capacity and demand for proper planning and design can prevent or mitigate ‘planning disaster’. 

TOPIC 5: The Cross-Ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Programme (SIP) Development of Smart Mobility Platform  
Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) through Strategic Innovation Promotion (SIP) Sub Programme  Director Satoshi Hiyama, led the final topic for discussion.  

Mr. Hiyama presented the notion of a society without ‘mobility divides’. A future where passengers and freight can move freely, safely and comfortably. To achieve this, JAMA is building a platform for safe, fair, eco-friendly and seamless mobility for passengers and freight.  

The organisation has a task force for Sustainable Mobility Services that re-design planning guidelines, spatial evaluation methods and HR development programmes. This task force also deals with freight and related collaborative logistics, legal framework and business practices.  

Another JAMA task force is focused on Comprehensive Infrastructure that deal with pure technologies along with legal framework, physical infrastructure and digital infrastructure.  

JAMA envisions a future where road infrastructure will be capable of preemptive prevention of road traffic crashes through proactive risk notification.  

Through CCAM, the IRF fosters innovation and progress in road infrastructure and sustainable transportation. It is presenting a platform for the successful adoption of CCAM technology that will include its rollout and deployment. 

The session is one of the ways that will educate users about CCAM benefits and help build greater public trust in these innovations.  

The way forward requires collaboration and knowledge sharing, with open conversations about CCAM at the centre.  Further, the success with CCAM depends on partnerships between governments, industry, academia and civil society.  

“The future of mobility isn’t about the autonomous vehicles themselves but in what they can offer when fully integrated with the whole mobility ecosystem”, Acting DG Alcaraz.