AZIENDA MOBILITA E TRASPORTI SPA

Their core work

AMT SPA is the public transport operator for the city of Genova, Italy, running urban bus and trolleybus networks that serve hundreds of thousands of passengers daily. In EU research projects, they participate as an operational end-user — not as a technology developer — contributing real-world transport infrastructure, live passenger data flows, and network operations as a testing ground for security technologies. Their core value in research consortia is the ability to validate cybersecurity and threat detection tools against actual urban mobility systems under real operating conditions. They represent the "customer" side of public transport security: the entity that must ultimately deploy and live with whatever solutions are developed.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

AMT's two-year H2020 window shows a clear operational shift: their first project (CitySCAPE, 2020) dealt with systemic cybersecurity concerns — cloud service protection, attack modelling, privacy frameworks, and assurance standards — suggesting engagement at the infrastructure and policy level. By 2021, PREVENT PCP narrowed the focus to ground-level security operations: detecting threats and tracking perpetrators on live transport networks. This trajectory moves from "how do we secure the system?" toward "how do we catch bad actors in real time?" — a shift from architecture to operations.

AMT is moving toward applied, real-time security operations in public transport, making them a strong candidate for future projects involving smart surveillance, passenger safety systems, or security-by-design in urban mobility platforms.

How they like to work

AMT participates exclusively as a consortium member — they have not led or coordinated any H2020 project, which is typical for operational transport companies whose contribution is infrastructure access rather than research leadership. Despite only two projects, they have accumulated 42 unique consortium partners across 12 countries, suggesting they joined mid-to-large consortia where their role as a live operational testbed attracted diverse research and technology partners. Working with AMT likely means gaining access to a real urban transport network for pilots, but project governance will rest with academic or technology partners.

With 42 unique partners across 12 countries from just two projects, AMT has a surprisingly broad European network for a city-level transport operator. Their network skews toward security technology developers, academic cybersecurity groups, and other transport authorities — partners attracted by access to real urban transit infrastructure.

What sets them apart

Most participants in transport security research are technology vendors or universities — AMT is an actual urban transport operator, which means they bring something no lab can replicate: a live fleet, real passenger data, genuine operational constraints, and the procurement authority to eventually buy the solutions being developed. For any consortium needing to demonstrate that a security technology works in a real city transport environment, AMT provides immediate credibility and a concrete deployment pathway. Their PCP participation also signals willingness to act as a structured public buyer, which is valuable for companies developing pre-commercial security products for the transit sector.

Highlights from their portfolio

• CitySCAPE
  The largest of the two projects (€313,775) and the broadest in scope — addressing cybersecurity across a full multimodal city transport ecosystem, including cloud services, attack modelling, and passenger privacy, making it a comprehensive reference for AMT's security capabilities.
• PREVENT PCP
  A Pre-Commercial Procurement project where AMT acts as a public buyer co-designing innovative security solutions, giving them direct influence over the requirements and selection of threat detection technologies for public transport.