Research projects Multi-modal transport planning
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
MULTIMODAL MOBILITY
MODAL SHIFT
The SPINE project proposes smart public transport initiatives to help European cities achieve climate neutrality. The aim is to integrate public transport systems with new mobility services, connected and automated mobility, sharing schemes, active transport modes, and micromobility.
SPINE Living Labs in 11 cities will drive this transition, implementing sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs) and the co-creation, development, and adoption of promising innovative mobility solutions. The Living Labs will become exemplars of improved public transport access combined with advanced shared, inclusive, sustainable and resilient urban and peri-urban mobility services, in turn leading changes in mobility patterns and behaviours, aimed at less car-centred urban mobility systems.
A set of digital enablers will be developed and deployed to support the new mobility services in the Living Labs.
1: Analyse the urban/suburban/peri-urban form, physical and functional structure, natural environment, and public realm, within which public transport systems operate, to define innovative strategies and new approaches of significant impact.
2: Ideate, prototype, demonstrate and evaluate innovative mobility solutions, complemented, and reinforced by appropriate policy measures, in four Living Labs.
3: Define and implement the digital tools that will enable the modelling and support the deployment of the collaborative and co-created public transport mobility interventions, employing digital twins and simulations.
4: Deploy, demonstrate and evaluate innovative mobility solutions and business models in six twinning cities.
5: Foster the dissemination, transferability, replication, and up-scaling of innovative solutions by encouraging cross-pollination across other European cities.
Multiple stakeholders will develop and demonstrate of innovative mobility solutions in four Lead City Living Labs in Antwerp, Bologna, Tallin and Las Palmas.
The SPINE approach involves the creation of:
(a) innovative simulation and digital twinning tools, along with open data and behavioural models, that will allow the building of scenarios combining different mobility interventions and the implementation of the most promising ones; and
(b) data-driven impact assessment models that will foster the twinning, transferability and adaptation of the successful solutions of the four Living Labs in seven twinning cities – Barreiro, Valladolid, Zilina, Sibenik, Hrakleion, Gdynia and Rouen.
Aimsun leads Workpackage 3 dealing with the design and development of SPINE digital tools, platforms, applications and supporting models, particularly for digital impact assessment. This involves the development of simulation models for seven cities including two multimodal simulation models specifically developed by Aimsun.
Workpackage 3 also includes investigation of city-specific scenarios and ‘What if?’ analysis, supporting the co-creative process in the Living Labs. A configurable analysis tool will transform policy questions into modelling problems, modelling policy measures as parametric simulations followed by ‘What if?’ analysis, to identify a flexible and scalable array of measures to increase public transport modal share and user satisfaction.
Holistic Approach for Providing Spatial & Transport Planning Tools and Evidence to Metropolitan and Regional Authorities to Lead a Sustainable Transition to a New Mobility Era
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