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 Tuesday, November 30, 2021, the second outreach event of the SUMBooST2 project took place. The meeting was held online via Teams platform. Representatives of consortium University of Zagreb Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Ericsson Nikola Tesla, City of Dubrovnik, and City of Rijeka, as well as other relevant stakeholders and students attended the event.
The event began with a short introduction speech from the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, and Ericsson Nikola Tesla. After the introduction speech, team from Ericsson Nikola Tesla presented the methodology of the SUMBooST2 tool. After the methodology, the results from the field research from the cities Dubrovnik, Rijeka, and Zagreb were presented, as well as the results, analysis and validation of big data sets.
After the successful filed and big data research, the pilot zones for three cities were defined. For each city, a negative and positive pair of zones were identified. Negative pair of zones are those with an excessive share of passenger car transport, and positive with high rates of travel by sustainable modes of transport.
Also, the lessons learnt, the next steps in the implementation of the project, as well as the potential commercialization of the SUMBooST2 tool were presented. Participants were able to give their opinions in the short discussion held after the presentation. The third and final outreach event is planned in December at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences.
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.
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