Project
SCUSSE - Smart Combination of passenger transport modes and services in Urban areas for maximum System Sustainability and Efficiency
Funding origin:
Portugal
STRIA Roadmaps:
Network and traffic management systems (NTM)
Smart mobility and services (SMO)
Transport mode:
Multimodal
Transport sectors:
Passenger transport
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Duration:
Start date: 01/11/2007,
End date: 01/06/2010
Status: Finished
Funding details:
Overview
Background & policy context:
The project aimed to conceive, organize and simulate the implementation of new smart transport modes and services to optimize integration with lifestyles, and also with already existing individual and collective transport. To do so, three levels of decision (strategic, tactic and operational) were approached covering the institutional design required for the regulatory environment, network planning focusing on productive efficiency as well as efficiency in consumption, and enforcement and performance monitoring at the operational level. Performance assessment at the strategic level was developed as well.
Objectives:
The project was organized around the following specific objectives:
- Understanding factors of preference and repulsion on choice of travel mode and developing proto-solutions for multiple market segments
- Conceptualizing and evaluating innovative services, modes, and congestion management initiatives (including pricing) with the aim of better fit to user requirements and the potential for greater sustainability and efficiency
- Developing incentives, marketing strategies and business models for innovative services and modes
- Analysing the urban activity space and the implications of the innovative services
- Designing and simulating the new services, modes, and congestion management initiatives (including pricing)
- Analysing the implications of new services and pricing paradigms on governance structures
- Assessing institutional, economic, and financial feasibility of new solutions found as well as their impact at tactical and strategic levels
- Developing a handbook on smart combination of passenger transport modes and services in urban areas.
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