Periodic Reporting for period 2 - nuMIDAS (New Mobility Data and Solutions Toolkit)
Período documentado: 2022-01-01 hasta 2022-12-31
The mobility ecosystem is rapidly evolving, whereby we see the rise of new stakeholders and services. Examples of these are the presence of connected and automated vehicles, a large group of organisations that rally to establish various forms of shared mobility, with the pinnacle being all of these incorporated into a large MaaS ecosystem. As these new forms of mobility offerings start to appear within cities, so do new ways in which data are being generated, collected, and stored. Analysing this (Big) data with suitable (artificial intelligence) techniques becomes more paramount, as it leads to insights in the performance of certain mobility solutions, and is able to highlight (mobility) needs of citizens in a broader context, in addition to a rise in new risks and various socio-economic impacts.
Successfully integrating all these disruptive technologies and solutions with the designs of policy makers remains a challenge at current. let alone being able to analyse, monitor, and assess mobility solutions and their potential socio-economic impacts.
nuMIDAS, the New Mobility Data & Solutions Toolkit, bridges this (knowledge) gap, by providing insights into what methodological tools, databases, and models are required, and how existing ones need to be adapted or augmented with new data. To this end, it starts from insights obtained through (market) research and stakeholders, as well as quantitative modelling. A wider applicability of the project’s results across the whole EU is guaranteed as all the research is validated within a selection of case studies in pilot cities, with varying characteristics, thereby giving more credibility to these results. Finally, through an iterative approach, nuMIDAS creates a tangible and readily available toolkit that can be deployed elsewhere, including a set of transferability guidelines, thus thereby contributing to the further adoption and exploitation of the project’s results.
Successfully integrating all these disruptive technologies and solutions with the designs of policy makers remains a challenge at current. let alone being able to analyse, monitor, and assess mobility solutions and their potential socio-economic impacts.
nuMIDAS, the New Mobility Data & Solutions Toolkit, bridges this (knowledge) gap, by providing insights into what methodological tools, databases, and models are required, and how existing ones need to be adapted or augmented with new data. To this end, it starts from insights obtained through (market) research and stakeholders, as well as quantitative modelling. A wider applicability of the project’s results across the whole EU is guaranteed as all the research is validated within a selection of case studies in pilot cities, with varying characteristics, thereby giving more credibility to these results. Finally, through an iterative approach, nuMIDAS creates a tangible and readily available toolkit that can be deployed elsewhere, including a set of transferability guidelines, thus thereby contributing to the further adoption and exploitation of the project’s results.
nuMIDAS consists of five main interrelated work packages, each of which produced substantial results as follows.
WP2 consists of four main tasks mainly dealing with status and trend assessment. A list of services (as we adopt a service-centric approach) in scope was defined. We then selected six use cases for the scope of nuMIDAS.
The outcomes of the analysis and the textual description of each use case were summarised into an intermediate representation complying to the principles of UML modelling, so-called UML mock-ups.
Then a service-dominant business model radar was created for each service, based on the achievement of shared goals and value co-creation by a group of actors (businesses, firms, and costumers) which interact to achieve that shared goal.
In WP3, we worked intensively on the content of Deliverable 3.1. This content can be divided into: (a) the definition and detailed description of the methodology to be followed for the design and development of the methods and tools of the nuMIDAS toolkit, (b) a desktop research and critical literature review targeted at the identification of key parameters, and (c) a methodology for identifying, analysing, and prioritising specific risks to be taken into consideration by the methods and tools of nuMIDAS toolkit.
The main work of WP4 consisted of data acquiring, in addition to all relevant information from the pilot cities. For all the use cases we have drafted the operational flow diagrams of their underlying algorithms. In first instance we will finalise the first set of use cases, and then work on the second set based on the insights we obtained from the former.
The first steps for WP5 were made to create a common picture of the architectural approach on the toolkit and the look and feel of the dashboard. Ideas were developed on the architecture and a representation was made to elaborate on the set-up of the toolkit as a whole.
A first draft of the technical architecture was created to get all the partners up to speed on the layout and further development of the nuMIDAS toolkit. During consortium meetings, we discussed the various options for the AWS internals. Next, based on the nuMIDAS stylesheet/guide book a first mockup was made for the dashboard to discuss layout and functionality.
In WP6, Deliverable 6.1 provides the communication and dissemination strategy. In order to widen the audience of beyond the nuMIDAS Linkedin group, an open profile has been created to start disseminating content. Deliverable 6.2 provides the description of the project website www.nuMIDAS.eu. Deliverable 6.3 focuses on the project identity used for the project and all the materials involved to help with the communication and dissemination strategy. In addition, nuMIDAS organised an participated in various workshops.
The structure and initial sections of the Business and exploitation plan have been elaborated by task leader MAPTM.
WP2 consists of four main tasks mainly dealing with status and trend assessment. A list of services (as we adopt a service-centric approach) in scope was defined. We then selected six use cases for the scope of nuMIDAS.
The outcomes of the analysis and the textual description of each use case were summarised into an intermediate representation complying to the principles of UML modelling, so-called UML mock-ups.
Then a service-dominant business model radar was created for each service, based on the achievement of shared goals and value co-creation by a group of actors (businesses, firms, and costumers) which interact to achieve that shared goal.
In WP3, we worked intensively on the content of Deliverable 3.1. This content can be divided into: (a) the definition and detailed description of the methodology to be followed for the design and development of the methods and tools of the nuMIDAS toolkit, (b) a desktop research and critical literature review targeted at the identification of key parameters, and (c) a methodology for identifying, analysing, and prioritising specific risks to be taken into consideration by the methods and tools of nuMIDAS toolkit.
The main work of WP4 consisted of data acquiring, in addition to all relevant information from the pilot cities. For all the use cases we have drafted the operational flow diagrams of their underlying algorithms. In first instance we will finalise the first set of use cases, and then work on the second set based on the insights we obtained from the former.
The first steps for WP5 were made to create a common picture of the architectural approach on the toolkit and the look and feel of the dashboard. Ideas were developed on the architecture and a representation was made to elaborate on the set-up of the toolkit as a whole.
A first draft of the technical architecture was created to get all the partners up to speed on the layout and further development of the nuMIDAS toolkit. During consortium meetings, we discussed the various options for the AWS internals. Next, based on the nuMIDAS stylesheet/guide book a first mockup was made for the dashboard to discuss layout and functionality.
In WP6, Deliverable 6.1 provides the communication and dissemination strategy. In order to widen the audience of beyond the nuMIDAS Linkedin group, an open profile has been created to start disseminating content. Deliverable 6.2 provides the description of the project website www.nuMIDAS.eu. Deliverable 6.3 focuses on the project identity used for the project and all the materials involved to help with the communication and dissemination strategy. In addition, nuMIDAS organised an participated in various workshops.
The structure and initial sections of the Business and exploitation plan have been elaborated by task leader MAPTM.
Regarding the state of the art, nuMIDAS positions itself well in advance of current practices. Regarding the MG-4-8-2020 call requirements, objectives, and expected impacts, nuMIDAS is making advancements on the following topics:
nuMIDAS provided an extensive overview of the current state of the art via the work done in WP2. Based on the existing trends, nuMIDAS followed a service-oriented approach that provides an extensive and extensible toolkit, being able to cover a very broad rage of use cases and applications. The nuMIDAS toolkit that is under development is tackling six different use cases, of which some explicitly deal with new forms of transportation such as micromobility services.
nuMIDAS went beyond the state of the art here, by providing a full overview of all relevant stakeholders that are associated with its service-oriented approach. For each of the possible mobility services, a whole categorisation of relevant stakeholders and possible use cases was given as part of the outcome in WP2’s deliverables.
nuMIDAS has matured to the point at which it can answer for example the question “How does this impact policy?”. Policy decisions are made measurable and quantifiable by adopting nuMIDAS’s toolkit. The software is centred around six tangible use cases, piloted in different cities in Europe, and each being fed with a plethora of specific data sets. As such, making impact assessments became more tangible and directly usable. Even more so, the toolkit contains KPIs per use case on a variety of levels (i.e. not just directly related to the use cases’ outputs, but also to the economy, the environment, and society).
nuMIDAS takes this transferability explicitly into account, as (i) this is exactly what its new methods and tools do, and (ii) it embodies transferability from the ground up by already taking it into account early on in the project’s lifetime, creation of the toolkit, and collection of the data. As a result, city heterogeneity is now less of a concern, as the nuMIDAS toolkit is by definition (and construction) more generically applicable.
Through its quantitative approach, nuMIDAS already overcame some of these problems, mainly by providing the right view on data of outcomes to the modeller, thereby giving insight into where possible problems may lie. The progress is directly embodied within the definition and deployment of the six different use cases that the nuMIDAS toolkit is currently servicing.
nuMIDAS provided an extensive overview of the current state of the art via the work done in WP2. Based on the existing trends, nuMIDAS followed a service-oriented approach that provides an extensive and extensible toolkit, being able to cover a very broad rage of use cases and applications. The nuMIDAS toolkit that is under development is tackling six different use cases, of which some explicitly deal with new forms of transportation such as micromobility services.
nuMIDAS went beyond the state of the art here, by providing a full overview of all relevant stakeholders that are associated with its service-oriented approach. For each of the possible mobility services, a whole categorisation of relevant stakeholders and possible use cases was given as part of the outcome in WP2’s deliverables.
nuMIDAS has matured to the point at which it can answer for example the question “How does this impact policy?”. Policy decisions are made measurable and quantifiable by adopting nuMIDAS’s toolkit. The software is centred around six tangible use cases, piloted in different cities in Europe, and each being fed with a plethora of specific data sets. As such, making impact assessments became more tangible and directly usable. Even more so, the toolkit contains KPIs per use case on a variety of levels (i.e. not just directly related to the use cases’ outputs, but also to the economy, the environment, and society).
nuMIDAS takes this transferability explicitly into account, as (i) this is exactly what its new methods and tools do, and (ii) it embodies transferability from the ground up by already taking it into account early on in the project’s lifetime, creation of the toolkit, and collection of the data. As a result, city heterogeneity is now less of a concern, as the nuMIDAS toolkit is by definition (and construction) more generically applicable.
Through its quantitative approach, nuMIDAS already overcame some of these problems, mainly by providing the right view on data of outcomes to the modeller, thereby giving insight into where possible problems may lie. The progress is directly embodied within the definition and deployment of the six different use cases that the nuMIDAS toolkit is currently servicing.