SHIFTIN: Towards Resilient, Sustainable, and Biodiversity-Friendly Transport Infrastructure
SHIFTIN aims to accelerate the transition to climate neutral, resilient and biodiversity friendly transport infrastructure by 2050. Roads, railways and ports rely on large volumes of raw materials, generate significant CO2 and air pollutant emissions, fragment habitats, and are increasingly exposed to floods, landslides and heatwaves. Despite many high maturity solutions in Europe, uptake remains slow because the sector needs clear standards, comparable performance evidence and procurement specifications.
SHIFTIN will demonstrate and combine circular low carbon construction materials, nature based measures, advanced monitoring and digital decision support to enable safer, more sustainable life cycle choices. Building on the LIAISON Dynamic Multi Infrastructure Governance Framework, the project will deliver defensible procurement evidence and practical tools for public buyers. It will deploy full scale pilots on four TEN T corridors (Atlantic, Scandinavian Mediterranean, Baltic Adriatic and North Sea Baltic), covering road, rail and port contexts.
Demonstrations will integrate innovative materials and services with network and asset monitoring (including satellite and on board sensing, IoT enabled structural health monitoring, and AI supported analytics). A Digital Twin based Integrated Decision Support Platform will convert performance data into transparent whole life indicators for carbon, circularity, resilience, biodiversity and costs, supporting robust business cases and maintenance planning.
SHIFTIN will translate results into outputs aligned with the Work Programme priorities on green and resilient TEN T infrastructure: guidance for standards and regulations, and ready to use procurement templates and model clauses that embed whole life sustainability, resilience and biodiversity requirements. This will reduce adoption risk, support green public procurement pilots and enable replication and market uptake across European transport networks.
MEMBERS
1 FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION Coordinator
2 IDP INGENIERIA Y ARQUITECTURA IBERIA SL
3 ECOLE NATIONALE DES PONTS ET CHAUSSEES
4 EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH
5 UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO
6 RESEARCH DRIVEN SOLUTIONS LIMITED
7 Inframind Labs Ltd
8 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
9 UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA
10 GRID ENGINEERS IKE
11 MINUARTIA ESTUDIS AMBIENTALS SL
12 ZAVOD ZA GRADBENISTVO SLOVENIJE
13 ACCIONA CONSTRUCCION SA
14 BOUYGUES TRAVAUX PUBLICS SA
15 POLITECNICO DI MILANO
16 CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS DE MATERIALES Y CONTROL DE OB
17 NEO ECO UKRAINE LLC
18 CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS Y EXPERIMENTACION DE OBRAS PUES
19 IZPITEK SOLAR SOCIEDAD LIMITADA
20 2TDK DRUZBA ZA RAZVOJ PROJEKTA DOO
21 DRUZBA ZA AVTOCESTE V REPUBLIKI SLOVENIJI D.D
22 AUTOSTRADE PER L'ITALIA SPA
23 FORUM DES LABORATOIRES NATIONAUX EUROPEENS DE
24 Maple Consulting Ltd
The participation of Applied Geotechnologies Research Group has been partially supported by Universidade de Vigo (Axudas propias á investigación da Universidade de Vigo, convocatoria 2025).