ITS can indeed help to reduce emissions and save energy through a better demand management including the use of road charging and access management. Better multi-modal information and feedback to drivers (eco-driving) are also valuable instruments. This can happen in a cross-city or cross-border manner, but naturally also in an urban framework. A change of mobility habits in the average European citizen is needed. This should be proposed and reinforced by new and better mobility services at hand and a clear conception of the benefits for such citizen, the city and the entire society.

Reducing congestion through better management of demand and capacity can be achieved through dynamic traffic management based on real-time data from roads/streets, vehicles and even mobile phones, and the use of simulations and historic data can also improve the strategies to mitigate congestion. In this regard ICT can provide a lot of information that can help optimize the management of such a complex system, but this information can come from very diverse systems. Managing these data and delivering a satisfactory service on a need-basis is challenging. The ever-increasing quantity of information that can be captured, stored, processed, aggregated and communicated among users and providers of mobility services calls for a transformation of our current idea of cooperative communication around the Future Internet concept; this transformation has to be driven from the cloud-computing concept.

THE PROJECT

MOVEUS means ICT cloud-based platform and mobility services available, universal and safe for all users. As a result of the research activity along the project, MOVEUS will deliver:

• A cloud-based mobility management platform, which will collect input data from distributed heterogeneous sources and process these data to infer valuable information of the traffic status and users’ mobility patterns, ensuring data privacy and security all along the handling process.
• An API toolkit offered as a platform extension, which will provide developers and third parties access to these data.
• A set of innovative user-centric services supported by an effective incentive-based model, aimed at assisting users’ mobility and fostering behavioral changes towards sustainable transport modes.
• A fully integrated smart mobility application (MOVEUS APP), running either on users’ smartphones or control centers owned by Local Authorities or Transport Operators.
• Energy efficiency assessment tools to measure users’ carbon footprint and the energy gains vs. consumption for the ICT solutions applied to each pilot.

MOVEUS will therefore integrate, in a cloud-computing environment, different transport and traffic management components and future internet technologies which are able to capture, store and elaborate a relevant and heterogeneous quantity of mobility and energy assessment data. These data will draw from asynchronous user-generated information (e.g. mobility patterns, preferences), synchronous user-generated data (e.g. position in real time), historic databases (e.g. weather reports and trends, public transportation schedules) and data from mobility companies and vehicles in real-time. Such vast amount of information will then be used for developing an API toolkit for third parties plus a wide range of innovative, personalized and incentive-based mobility services.

CONSORTIUM

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

• ATOS Spain S.A.E. (ES)
• Sociedad Ibérica de Construcciones Eléctricas S.A. (ES)
• Fundación Tecnalia Research and Innovation (ES)
• Quaeryon SRL (IT)
• Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid SA (ES)
• Ayuntamiento de Madrid (ES)
• Comune di Genova (IT)
• TTY-SAATIO (FI)
• algoWatt SpA (IT)
• Tampereen Kaupunki (FI)