Detailed description (English): CISMOB main vision is to promote innovative ways to reduce carbon footprint and increase the sustainability of urban areas by improving the efficiency in the use of urban transport infrastructure through ICT. In a context
of increasing availability of sensor technology to monitor and record large amounts of data, a common challenge to policy makers is to identify the best practices to take advantage of these new sources of data and use
them to prioritize intervention areas, to manage efficiently current road networks, to inform citizens and motivate them to choose more sustainable mobility options.
CISMOB will focus on improving the implementation of regional policies and local mobility programmers by having a thorough understanding on the different transport-related impacts and the main vulnerabilities
associated with different zones of the territory. CISMOB partners consider that policy and local mobility programs should not be focused in minimizing a particular parameter (ex. Levels of congestion), but rather to
promote holistic approaches capable of responding to the questions: what (to minimize)? Why? When? Where? And how? Regional and Policy instruments should also provide a framework of indicators to assess and
inform the costs and benefits of environmental effectiveness of different mobility solutions.
CISMOB integrates a set of cities and regions of heterogenic characteristics, which are represented by institutions with complementary profiles. All partners will cooperate together in order to learn best practices of sustainable management of urban transport taking advantage of ICT. Workshops, staff exchange programs and dissemination actions will be carried out with the aim of exchanging local experiences, learning best practices and enhancing the citizen’s participation.
Target group(s): Citizens: The ultimate goals is to improve the quality of life
of citizens by improving the management of regional transport
infrastructure.
Strategic/Political stakeholders (politicians and public officials
dealing with transport management, city planning, environmental
and innovation agencies, staff responsible for public transport
operations) that may help the partners in effectively influencing the
selected policy instruments.
Scientific and technical community experts: To maximize our
contribution to the state of the art.
The project activities are also relevant to planners, public agencies, researchers, and entrepreneurs
connected to the fields of ICT, transport, energy and environment assessment) and other interested parties including transit operators and services providers.
Objectives: The overall goal of CISMOB is to improve the implementation of regional policies with the ultimate goal of reducing carbon footprint. We will achieve this goal by promoting the efficiency in the
use of urban transport infrastructure through ICT. Low carbon essentially means less energy consumption and therefore, a more efficient use of infrastructure. However, this optimization
must be performed based on a holistic perspective integrating other environmental externalities (noise, other atmospheric pollutants) and ensuring equitability and social cohesion
throughout proactively addressing specific local environmental and social vulnerabilities. Subsequently, CISMOB seeks to exchange regional level experiences in developing win-win
strategies to achieve common benefits in reducing mobility related carbon footprint. The strategies should be supported by the innovative technology sector, which shall provide tools to
increase the promotion of sustainable multimodal urban mobility and mitigate transport related environmental and social impacts. This objective is logically targeted at competent local and
regional public authorities. However, universities will have a key role by influencing local policy instruments and promoting the collaboration with innovative SMES. Other subobjectives will be
to conduct the following activities:
• To develop an agenda for ICT for low carbon and sustainable mobility; a truly multiscale perspective.
• To promote the transfer of technical and scientific knowledge on ICT and environmental assessments and traffic management between universities and decision makers
• To support the development and exchange of experience on innovative eco-mobility
applications.
Expected Outcomes: The main outputs will be the following:
4 major interregional events, each one in the 4 countries representing the consortium. These events will include 3 thematic seminars and 3 capacity building workshops
12 local stakeholders meetings
main events, regular local stakeholders meetings will be carried out. The main objective is to actively involve the local stakeholders in the project,
12 staff exchanges among CISMOB partners (3 day visits);
A final dissemination conference to promote the project’s achievements
Agenda: "ICT towards low carbon and sustainable mobility a multiscale perspective".
Partner: University of Aveiro,
University of Stockholm,
Municipality of Águeda,
Intelligent Transport Systems - Romania,
Bucharest Metropolitan Transport Authority,
Energy Agency of Extremadura.