Politecnico di Torino
The Politecnico di Torino (www.polito.it) is one of the most important universities in Europe for engineering and architecture studies, strongly committed to collaboration with industry. Currently it holds the 57st position among the top Engineering universities in the world, the 7th in Europe and the 1st in Italy (Shanghai Jiao Tong University Ranking 2008). The Politecnico offers excellence in technology and promotes the ability to carry out theoretical or applied research and also the capacity to achieve concrete and reliable productive processes or organise services and facilities.
The Politecnico has close relationships with international institutions, companies, local government and other types of association and takes social and economic consideration into account. With more than 150 bilateral international agreements and 40 double degree agreements, Politecnico has links with the most prestigious Universities in Europe. Moreover Politecnico has about 30.000 students (15% from 100 foreign countries); 3 levels of degree-courses (BA, MS, PhD); 840 professors and researchers, 538 post-doctorate fellows. POLITO is member of the major European interuniversity networks is part of some of the major European interuniversity networks, such as CESAER, CLUSTER, E.C.I.U, EUA, CMU. The participation to many international projects allows Politecnico to count on a great experience: in the FP7 Politecnico has more than 220 approved projects with a total EU contribution of 62 million Euro, ranking among the top 200 entities participating in Framework Program. Politecnico di Torino is the only Italian member of ECTRI, the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes.Professor Cristina Pronello
ProfessorPROMATECH Maritime Technologies
PROMATECH, founded in 2010, is a leading R&D and innovation focused SME developing disruptive software and engineering solutions for the Maritime & Shipbuilding Industry. PROMATECH has an active role in the Turkish market and acts as the global solution partner of international companies.
PROMATECH meets the industry needs with the use of emerging and environment friendly technologies, IT and Engineering solutions. We are specialized in Autonomous Surface Vehicles, Decision Support Systems, Energy Efficiency, Naval Architectural Engineering Services, Telemetry, GIS Applications, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing and Mobile & Web-based applications. This powerful combination of expert knowledge reflects itself in the quality and reliability of the by PROMATECH developed software and provided integration services.
Public enterprise Road and transport research institute
Public enterprise Road and transport research institute (hereinafter – the Enterprise) is a public non-profit seeking legal entity of limited civil liability the objective of which is to satisfy the public interests by implementing functions necessary for the planning and design of road building, construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance works and their quality assessment.
The Enterprise’s founder and sole shareholder (owner) is a state.
Our mission is to carry out activities which would contribute to the improvement of the condition of road infrastructure.
Our vision is: funds allocated to the development of road infrastructure shall be used in accordance with the cost – benefit analysis method. Decisions on the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance works of the roads of national significance shall be made in accordance with the objective data of road condition and traffic investigations.

Sofia Urban Mobility Centre
Sofia Urban Mobility Centre EAD is a municipal company responsible for:
- Organisation, management, supervision and financing of the public transport in Sofia as an integrated process.
- Monitoring of the proper implementation of the Public Service Contracts between Sofia municipality and the transport operators.
- Operation of information management system for monitoring and supervision of the traffic, based on GPS identification.
- Implementation and operation of Intelligent Transport Systems for public transport.
- Issuing of transportation documents and collection of the transport revenues.
- Operation of unified Automated Fare Collection System (ticketing system).
- Finance, construction, operation and maintenance of parkings, garages and open-space parking spaces in Sofia - owned by Sofia Municipality.
- Advertising and information services in the public transport.
- Development of plans and analyses for urban mobility management.
Tsvetan Tsolov
Head of International Projects Department
Softeco Sismat SRL
Softeco Sismat, founded in 1979, is a leader in the Information and Communication Technology market. With offices in Genoa, Milan, Naples and Catania and a turnover of more than 20 MEuro, the Company operates in the IT sectors of the energy, transportation, finance and in the whole industry markets.
More specifically, Softeco Sismat has a strong experience in the development and implementation of complex systems for intelligent and efficient mobility of people, goods and information, and for the precise control of the related technological infrastructures:
- Local Public Transport : service and fleet management
- Flexible Transports and Smart Mobility: ”on call” bus, school transport, transport for the disabled, car-pooling, taxis
- Infomobility: multi-channels information platforms, interactive voice responders (IVRs), variable message signs, smartphone apps
- Traffic and Safety: infrastructure supervision, flows and traffic control management, roadside assistance management systems, accident analysis, video surveillance, asset management
- Logistics: fleet management, collection and distribution optimization, city logistics
- Railways and Metros: rail traffic control, train information systems, remote control and monitoring of railway power lines