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Monitoring travel demand in Bogotá and Buenos Aires during the pandemic
Briefing Public transport is often considered as the backbone of sustainable urban mobility. The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on public transport demand, driven by social distance measures and perceived contagion risk, has been a major challenge for transport authorities and operators. Latin American cities are not an exception: while demand decreased by 60-90% in […]
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Predicting CO2 savings thanks to shared mobility services in the city of Stavanger
Briefing Recent years have seen a rapid growth of shared mobility services in cities. Scooters, bicycles, motorcycles, etc. are flooding the streets and promise to be a sustainable solution to replace private vehicles. However, without the right policies and regulations in place, smart mobility may also cannibalise public transport, induce new motorised trips, and compete […]
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Analysing cross-border mobility between Spain and Portugal
Briefing One of the cornerstones of European integration is the freedom of movement between EU countries. The population of border regions have benefited from the possibility of working, shopping and spending leisure time on any side of national borders, leading to increasing travel demand between neighbouring countries. Besides the notable improvements in highway connectivity (e.g., […]
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CONDUCTOR
The project The CONDUCTOR project aims to design, integrate and demonstrate advanced, high-level traffic and fleet management that enable efficient and globally optimal transport of passengers and goods, while ensuring seamless multimodality and interoperability. By using innovative dynamic balancing and priority-based vehicles management (both automated and conventional) CONDUCTOR builds upon state-of-the-art fleet and traffic management […]
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PASSPORT
The project PASSPORT is an industrial research project led by Nommon and co-financed by the Center for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Its goal is to provide public transport authorities and operators with a tool to help them integrate the evaluation and design of the public transport […]
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SOTERIA
Context In response to the growing concern among European citizens over road safety, the European Commission (EC) has adopted ambitious road safety goals. In continuation with the previous roadmaps for 2010 and 2020, the EC has set a new 50% reduction target for the number of fatalities and serious injuries on European roads by 2030, […]
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DIGITWIN4CIUE
The project Digital twins are virtual representations of real-life systems that can facilitate decision making by providing system managers with an environment where they can monitor how the system evolves and test alternative measures to improve its performance before implementing them in the actual system. Powered by the advanced sensorisation and computation capabilities offered by […]
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TravelInt
Context A complete understanding of the behaviour of passengers, as final users of the air transport system, is a key aspect for airport planning and management. Airports must be able to adapt to the constantly changing market demand in order to acquire a better understanding of passenger behaviour and adapt their strategies accordingly. The traditional […]
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BAMBOO
Context The traditional approach to collecting travel demand information, mainly based on surveys (household travel surveys, vehicle intercept surveys, on-board transit surveys, etc.), provides rich information, but also suffers from major shortcomings. The analysis of geolocation data from personal devices, such as mobile network data, allows overcoming many of these limitations: In some projects, surveys […]
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SHAPEMOV
Context Car, motorbike, bicycle and scooter sharing services have spread across a multitude of cities in recent years, adding a new possibility to the offer available to meet citizens’ mobility needs. This initial phase has been characterised by an enormous dynamism, under which shared mobility operators have prioritised rapid deployment strategies that promote their visibility […]