Renewable Mobility Services in Smart Cities

ICT for Transport

MOVESMART

Renewable Mobility Services in Smart Cities

MOVESMART Renewable Mobility Services in Smart Cities

Objectives

The general objective of MOVESMART is the design and implementation of novel time-dependant renewable mobility services that will incorporate eco-friendly modes of transport, most notably that of electric vehicles.

This overall objective is specified in the following scientific and technological aims:

·  Enabling optimised energy efficient personal mobility services and interconnected infrastructure for commuters and travellers in urban environments.

·  Development and integration of crowd sourcing techniques for collecting real time user feedback for more efficient traffic prediction.

·  Development of innovative energy-efficient time-dependent renewable routing paradigms integrated into a personal mobility application able to select (under multiple criteria) the optimal mobility point-to-point solution in real time.

·  Evaluation of the proposed personal mobility concept through its deployment in real operating environments.

·  Definition of the most appropriate business models on top of the new enabled mobility services.

Description of Work

TECHNICAL CONCEPT

The MOVESMART concept is based on the dynamically-evolving Urban Traffic Knowledge Base (UTKB), which is stored and maintained by an urban traffic cloud of fixed and powerful computing systems with communication capabilities with all the traffic sensing devices via a Wireless Communication Gateway (WCG) be it fixed camera / in-car periodic speed reports, or emergent reports of unforeseen incidents.

The WCG applies all appropriate mechanisms to ensure reliable information exchange in a secure, open and interoperable way. The purpose of the UT-Cloud will be to digest all the periodic/emergent traffic-sensing reports arriving in real time by various sources, and feed them either to the TPM for assessment of their significance and possibly predict short-term and mid-term disruptions, or the UTKB in order to adapt accordingly its traffic information contents so that really fast responses to queries for time-dependent route plans are supported.

PILOT SITES

Within MOVESMART, two representative pilot cases will be deployed for assessing the impact of the proposed new personal mobility paradigm, and to showcase its operation in real urban environments: (a) in the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain), European Green Capital 2012, a pedestrian-scale compact city, and (b) in the city of Pula (Croatia), a historical small city and tourist asset.

Expected results

Energy and environmental concerns have shaped the MOVESMART idea for an innovative urban transportation concept that envisages to address the needs of wide Metropolitan Areas Networks exploiting the potential of reducing traffic induced CO2 emissions.

The project is driven by high-demand metropolitan mobility aspects aiming at reducing the environmental footprint and provide optimised real–time traffic–contingency plans to the users. The proposed mobility scenario, based on intensive monitoring and assessment of traffic status, focuses on:

·  Smart urban transportation for the sustainable development of European cities through the crowd sourcing scheme of traffic sensing information.

·  Speedup techniques and Traffic Timing Parameters to time-dependent networks for optimal handling of traffic data corresponding at a huge scale of metropolitan networks.

·  Joint next generation mobiles with future electric vehicles to meet citizens’ demands for quality of services in terms of mobility.

·  Set-up more effective networks and sustainable transportation related to the utilisation of electric vehicles and car-sharing services.

MOVESMART Renewable Mobility Services in Smart Cities

MOVESMART Renewable Mobility Services in Smart Cities