Roadmap and Policy Recommendations

This activity examines how public authorities, particularly at local and regional levels are addressing the socio-economic impacts of connected cooperative and automated mobility (CCAM) within their policy and planning frameworks. Building on the broader project analysis of CCAM’s implications for employment and society, this work focuses on translating these insights into concrete, operational guidance, enabling authorities to systematically integrate socio-economic considerations into mobility policies, planning processes, and decision-making cycles.

The project recognises that CCAM is not only a technological change, but also a major socio-economic transformation, affecting employment, skills, and the way mobility systems are used and accessed. This phase of the project generated two reports:

Social and economic aspects in the CCAM planning and policy framework

Deliverable 6.1 investigates how well these dimensions are currently reflected in mobility planning and policy, using the Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning (SUMP) cycle as a framework and nine socio-economic factors — including affordability, equity, employment, and public trust — as an analytical lens.

Drawing on a review of eleven European, national and international CCAM policy documents alongside twenty local and regional mobility plans, the report finds that while socio-economic aspects are widely acknowledged, they are rarely translated into concrete planning requirements. Accessibility and safety are comparatively well embedded, but affordability, equity, employment impacts, digital inclusion, and data governance remain underdeveloped across the SUMP cycle — from diagnostics and strategy through to implementation and monitoring.

The findings reveal a persistent gap between policy ambition and planning practice, alongside a need for governance structures that bring in actors beyond the transport sector. Deliverable 6.1 sets out these gaps and requirements, laying the analytical groundwork for the roadmap and policy recommendations to follow in Deliverable 6.2.

Read the full report here:

CCAM_ERAS_D6.1_Social and economic aspects in the CCAM planning and policy framework 

Roadmap to support the socio-economic transition to CCAM

Report forthcoming July 2026