Sustainable Urban Mobility Boost Smart Toolbox Upgrade (SUMBooST2) is supported by EIT Urban Mobility, an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.
On Thursday, September 16, 2021, the first out of three planned outreach events within the European project Sustainable Urban Mobility Boost Smart Toolbox Upgrade (SUMBooST2) was held in Dubrovnik. Sustainable Urban Mobility Boost Smart Toolbox Upgrade (SUMBooST2) is supported by EIT Urban Mobility, an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.
Representatives of consortium University of Zagreb Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Ericsson Nikola Tesla, City of Rijeka and City of Dubrovnik, as well as other relevant stakeholders from the City of Dubrovnik attended the event.
The event began with a short presentation of the partners, after which the results of last year’s successfully completed project Sustainable Urban Mobility Boost Smart Toolbox (SUMBooST) were presented, as well as the implementation plan of the SUMBooST2. SUMBooST2 aims to create a new methodological framework i.e., a tool that combines traditional traffic engineering with new possibilities of data science, applicable in traffic system analysis and planning. Toolbox (methodology) through data science extracts key urban mobility parameters and origin/destination matrices from the anonymized big data set gathered from telecom operator. The algorithms which separate relevant mobility data from the overall dataset are the unique part of the methodology (toolbox).
Also, the activities carried out so far within the project, the initial results and lessons learnt, as well as the next steps in the implementation of the project were presented. After the productive event, a short discussion was held in which the stakeholders were able to give their opinions and get additional clarifications related to the project itself.
EIT Urban Mobility aims to accelerate solutions and the transition towards a user-centric, integrated and truly multimodal transport system. As the leading European innovation community for urban mobility, EIT Urban Mobility works to avoid fragmentation by facilitating collaboration between cities, industry, academia, research and innovation to solve the most pressing mobility challenges of cities. Using cities as living labs, its industry, research and university partners will demonstrate how new technologies can work to solve real problems in real cities by transporting people, goods and waste in smarter ways.
For more information visit www.eiturbanmobility.eu
