The use of urban collective transport for passenger traffic and small goods traffic has important potential from the viewpoint of the environment and city logistics. There are considerable possibilities to reduce traffic, to save operating costs and to increase the level of service experienced by passengers whilst also encouraging the promotion of small alternatively-fuelled vehicles.

THE PROJECT

The CONNECT Coordinated Action on Flexible Collective Transport Services, funded by the EC under FP6, focused on Flexible Transport Services (FTS) and all intermediate forms of transport to be classified as flexible and collective, such as Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) which provides transport services “on demand” from passengers and where fleets of vehicles are scheduled to pick up and drop off people in accordance with their needs.

To date, transport services as DRT do not yet exploit the true potential of flexible collective mobility and further work is required on the knowledge acquisition, analysis and dispatching functions of such intermediate transport solutions that are required in the pursuit of sustainable mobility.

Also, the necessary supporting organizational frameworks required to deliver more effective and competitive transport solutions are not yet fully understood.

The use of urban collective transport for passenger traffic and small goods traffic has important potential from the viewpoint of the environment and city logistics. There are considerable possibilities to reduce traffic, to save operating costs and to increase the level of service experienced by passengers whilst also encouraging the promotion of small alternatively-fuelled vehicles.

CONSORTIUM

A consolidated research group with a renowned academic and industrial profile.

• University of Newcastle, TORG (GB)
• VTT, Technical Research Center of FIland (FI)
• ATAF (IT)
• ETRA (ES)
• Athens University of Economics and Business (GR)
• ETTS (IR)
• Angus Transport Forum (GB)
• Diepens en Okkema (NL)
• Institute for Transport Studies, BOKU (AT)
• Isdefe (ES)
• Logistik Centrum (SE)
• LT Consultants Ltd.(FI)
• MemEx (IT)
• Mobisoft (FI)
• OGnets (BE)
• Polis (EU)
• Rose Vision (ES)
• algoWatt SpA (IT)
• Szechenyi Istvan University (HU)
• Technical University of Crete (GR)
• Tritel (BE)
• University of Southampton (GB)
• Versio (FI)