This Summary Report describes the research activities carried out by RSE as part of the 2017 Annual Implementation Plan within the ‘Electric Mobility’ project. The 2017 research year was characterised first of all by an extremely detailed analysis of the potential impact on urban air quality of some sustainable mobility interventions suggested by the Urban Plan for Sustainable Mobility in Milan. The modelling system also made it possible to evaluate the effects of some of these scenarios on a national scale, also thanks to an important alignment between energy and emission models. The study on Milan also focused on a particularly innovative solution suggested by the 2016 results and supported by the City of Milan. This solution is known as ‘Ride sharing’ and is an evolved andreal-timeversion of thecar-poolingsystem. In 2015 a technology comparison process was launched that was pure LCA; it then continued in 2016 with the regionalization of impacts and in 2017 made an important achievement that was actually a starting point: it allowed for the comparison of electric, gasoline and diesel tractions in terms of external costs, also with indications on the geographical allocation of these costs. The results of these studies make it possible to clearly identify the overall effects of policy choices in favour of one or the other mobility solution.

Still in terms of policysupport, in 2017 the coordination activities of the Table on Sustainable Mobility were completed with the official publication of the ‘Elements for a Sustainable Mobility Roadmap’ and the ‘Recommendations’; thestakeholdersin the Table on Sustainable Mobility presented these documents to the Prime Minister’s Office; in addition, a virtual workspace was set up for continuing the debate. In 2017, the implementation of thepartial battery swapsystem was also completed and thesmart wall-boxsolution confirmed its good functioning; both solutions had been first presented in 2016.

In 2017, activities also looked at some new aspects compared to those already covered in the first two years of the three-year period, mostly under the stimulus of that which had been discussed at the Table on Sustainable Mobility. Thus, analyses were carried out of the potential synergy between the development of electric mobility and the development of renewable sources, developing a special 2030 scenario. In addition, some preliminary analyses were carried out to assess the possible transition to electric traction of heavy freight transport and local public transport buses, through catenary systems and flash charging, respectively, and the impact of this transition is under assessment. These studies, although preliminary and possibly to be deepend in the coming years, have also provided interesting data to identify possible avenues for sustainable development of the transport sector.