Research and Innovation background
- Austria’s 2030 Mobility Master Plan:Austria’s core transport strategy defining the transition to climate-neutral mobility by 2040, structured around ‘avoid-shift-improve' strategy for transport and explicitly linking policy measures to research and innovation needs (e.g. zero-emission systems, modal shift, efficiency).
- R&I Mobility Strategy: Strategy for Austrian R&I to deliver the capabilities required for the mobility sector to reach the goal of climate neutrality by 2040. Identifies four ‘Mission areas’ for R&I policy: ‘Cities: Promoting climate-neutral urban mobility’, ‘Regions: mobilising and sustainably connecting rural areas’, ‘Digitalisation: efficient and climate-friendly operation of infrastructure, mobility, and logistics services’ and ‘Technology: developing environmentally friendly transport technologies’.
- Action Plan Digital Transformation in Mobility: Strategy for implementing the 2030 Mobility Master Plan in the digital sector. Having a separate action plan for the digital sector recognises that the dynamic developments in the field of digital technologies and services can make a significant contribution to achieving the country’s climate targets. The action plan specifies a set of 16 measures required for the digital transformation in mobility.
- C-ITS Strategy Austria: Summarises the kay areas of action for the deployment of C-ITS in Austria. Provides guidance of decision making for different stakeholders. To assist in integrating the deployment of C-ITS in Austria with that in other countries, the strategy also provides an overview of the current state of the applications and standards, as well as national and international projects in Europe, USA and Asia.
- Aviation Strategy 2040+: Aviation specific roadmap for decarbonisation, sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) deployment, drones for passenger and cargo transport and digital aviation systems.
Austrian Road Safety Strategy 2021-2030: Includes transport research and innovation elements in safety technologies, data analytics, and transport infrastructure innovation.
(Last updated: 18/05/2026)
Institutional framework of transport research
- Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMIMI): Leads transport policy and R&I strategy, including mission-oriented mobility innovation programmes.
- Austrian Institute of Technology: Leader in mobility systems research specialising in automated and connected mobility systems, e-mobility and alternative fuels and mobility data spaces and digital twins.
- Open4Innovation: Platform for sharing results of publicly funded research and technological development to share knowledge and enable co-creation. Covers a wide range of application-oriented and technological research, including in the transport domain.
- Open4Aviation: Part of Open4Innovation, provides an overview of the R&I activities of the Austrian aviation sector. Also presents the underlying strategies and activities supporting the achievement of the strategic objectives.
Mobility Transition: Part of Open4Innovation, provides the vision for Mobility R&I for 2040 and the missions for achieving the vision. Aligns the missions with the four mission areas presented in the R&I Mobility Strategy.
(Last updated: 18/05/2026)
Funding Sources and Support Initiatives
Current funding sources and programmes include:
- Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG): Main funding body managing transport R&I funding programmes (current funded projects from the FFG on 'mobility transition' can be found here).
Klimaaktiv Mobil - the National Action Programme for Mobility Management:Offers financial support for Austria’s cities, municipalities, businesses, associations and, for the first time, private persons in the framework of the common BMNT-BMVIT action package for e-mobility with renewable energy. In addition to e-vehicles, Klimaaktiv Mobil further supports mobility management and alternative fuels, such as biofuels.
(Last updated: 18/05/2026)