NEWS
Techstars
brings smart
mobility-
focused
accelerator to
Turin, Italy
Indra, Leonardo and Thales
bring interoperability among
control centres in Europe closer
T
echstars, the worldwide network that
helps entrepreneurs succeed, has
announced the launch of the Techstars Smart
Mobility Accelerator based in Turin, Italy.
In partnership with Turinese foundations,
Compagnia Di San Paolo, and Fondazione
CRT, and the Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation
Center, the new 13-week mentorship-driven
accelerator programme will accept 10 premier
startups on an annual basis focused on
transformative smart mobility technologies,
with the programme concentrated on smart
infrastructure and smart cities.
The Techstars Smart Mobility Accelerator
is part of a series of innovation and
entrepreneurship-focused events and
programming through a Techstars, Compagnia
Di San Paolo, Fondazione CRT and Intesa
Sanpaolo Innovation Center partnership that
will build new opportunities for Italian and
European entrepreneurs throughout the Turin
ecosystem over the next three years.
The Techstars Smart Mobility Accelerator will
be hosted at the Officine Grandi Riparazioni
(OGR) in Turin, a historic building recently
transformed by Fondazione CRT into a centre
for contemporary culture and innovation.
The programme will be led by Martin
Olczyk, previous Managing Director of the
METRO Accelerator for Hospitality powered
by Techstars in Berlin and most recently,
Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) for the
Arcadis City of 2030 Accelerator, Powered
by Techstars located in Amsterdam. Olczyk
brings over a decade of startup mentorship
and early-stage tech investment to the
programme, having invested, co-founded
and advised dozens of companies and
entrepreneurs over the years.
“We are in the middle of a mobility
revolution and smart mobility is a new and
revolutionary way of thinking about how
human beings, data and goods get around
in a cleaner, safer, cheaper, more efficient
and convenient way,” said Olczyk.
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INTELLIGENTCIO
The companies will help to solve the
issue of a lack of updated information
T
aking place simultaneously in the
Maastricht, Reims, Langen and
Rome area control centres, 4DTM (Four
Dimensions Trajectory Management)
project SESAR members; Indra, Leonardo
and Thales have conducted the first formal
exercise to enable control centres across
Europe to share complete information
about air operations in real time. The
ultimate objective is delivering at the
end of the project the tools that will help
to increase efficiency and capacity of
air traffic management throughout the
continent. After this successful trial, the
final exercise will take place next year,
clearing the way for deployment. (IOP) solution that will help to solve
this problem, allowing all involved
concerned ATC centres to know
simultaneously the complete flight
trajectory, thus supporting smoother
coordination and transfer between
Air Traffic Control centres, improving
European air traffic flows.
Europe has some of the busiest airspace
in the world, covering 11.5 million km 2 of
airspace managed through 63 en-route
centres. Today, when an aircraft crosses
several borders, destination control and
airports may not have access to complete
and updated flight information. The technological solution is based
on Flight Objects that allow all parties
involved in the management of a flight
to share, access and update information
about its situation to have a consistent
view of its development.
Indra, Leonardo and Thales, within
the framework of the 4DTM project,
have developed the Interoperability
The demonstration involved
EUROCONTROL and French, German and
Italian air navigation service providers
(DSNA, DFS and ENAV, respectively). The
solution was tested in a variety of en-
route scenarios, covering different stages
of the flight.
Results showed concept feasibility,
increased situational awareness and
seamless operations (for instance, change
of route spanning several centres). n
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