MyWay aims at enhancing multi-modal journey planning and mobile services providing advanced solutions to foster  sustainable personal mobility in Smartcities.

THE PROJECT

For many decades, urban planning and transport evolved around the private car, which has resulted in problems such as congestion, noise, pollution, etc. To tackle these adverse impacts and improve the livability of European cities, citizens can benefit today from a variety of new sustainable and complementary mobility schemes, including dynamic vehicle sharing, real-time carpooling, demand-responsive transport, Electric Vehicles (EVs) sharing, etc. The interaction between users and the transport environment prior to and during travel has also greatly improved. More and more, travellers are able to access online dynamic traffic and transport information, use sophisticated journey planning services to organise their trips and get detailed navigation support while on the move.

However, despite these advances, the integration of such schemes in the overall urban mobility picture has not attained the desired level, with cars still remaining the preferred and prevailing choice of the users. In this scenario, MyWay investigates, develops and validates an integrated platform, the European Smart Mobility Resource Manager, including cloud-based services and facilities to support community supplied information collection and processing. The purpose is to holistically address the efficient and seamless integration and use of complementary, capacity-limited mobility services in the overall urban travel chain. This includes all transport modes (motorised and non-motorised, EVs, public transport, flexible services such as transport on-demand) and mobility sharing schemes (e.g. car sharing, motorbike sharing and carpooling).

The MyWay platform and its services are tested in three European areas providing a variety of urban scenarios and characteristics: a capital city and its surrounding regional transport context, Barcelona and Catalonia Region (ES);  a capital city and its metropolitan area, Berlin (DE); a small-size town equipped with initial smart city services, Trikala (GR). Three Living Lab demonstrations are correspondingly set up in the sites, involving local users and various stakeholders. The approach pursued by MyWay gives priority to the “egocentric vision” of the user: trying to find the right compromise for each single traveller offering a solution closest to his/her personal needs and preferences, making the frequent use of such personalised mobility solution (as an alternative to an ideal but not always attractive solution) a main contribution to the sustainability of urban transport.

CONSORTIUM

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

• algoWatt SpA (IT)
• ENIDE Solutions (ES)
• Fraunhofer FOKUS (DE)
• Generalitat de Catalunia (ES)
• Going Green SL (ES)
• Nexusgeografics (ES)
• ATM, Autoritat del Transport Metropolita’ (ES)
• Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ)
• Thales Services SaS (FR)
• POLIS (BE)
• ICCS, Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (GR)
• University of Aberdeen (UK)
• e-Trikala (GR)
• VMZ Berlin (DE)