The project has been executed according to the time plan of the Decription of Action. All deliverables until project M18 have been submitted on time (only minor delays to ensure the highest deliverable quality).
The project's foundations have been established through user research, ecosystem analysis, refinement of the push and pull measures and the definition of the technical and policy requirements of the project results. The four deliverables planned as part of the relevant WP of the project are available under the resources section on the UPPER website:
https://www.upperprojecteu.eu/resources/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)The development of the U-tools U-TWIN, U-SIM, U-SUMP, U-NEED, U-GOV is ongoing. A first version of the three tools has been presented and is being tested with the UPPER partners.
UPPER has defined in detail, refined, established the requirements and started the development of a package of push and pull measures aimed at:
~ Re-designing the urban mobility space to promote the use of public transport and steering the public transport infrastructure towards a more user-centric approach;
~ Better understanding the user’s behaviour and identifying emerging needs to better plan and adapt the public transport offer, services, infrastructure and use of space to address these specific needs and situations in different cities;
~ Supporting local authorities and PTOs in adjusting the municipal/regional SUMPs in line with the public transport-oriented culture;
~ Managing urban mobility network in favour of PT, including the prioritization of public transport and the establishment of private vehicles access regulations, charging schemes and parking regulations in urban areas to promote the use of PT;
~ Enhancing PT efficiency, reliability and resilience during operation though innovative and data-based solutions;
~ Better planning PT offer to improve its efficiency and convenience by addressing specific needs and situations;
~ Increasing accessibility and convenience of PT services to previously under-served areas or user groups;
~ Better understanding and improving citizens perception of PT and its quality of service and improving PT attractiveness though targeted campaigns;
~ Boosting multimodality and promoting behavioural change towards sustainable modes by guaranteeing optimum PT offer and proper integration with active modes;
~ Creating a package of incentives adapted to the needs of specific groups of users to increase the use of public transport and active transport modalities;
~ Developing new collaborative frameworks and ecosystem approaches that include public transport operators and new mobility service providers and measures related to the creation of Multimodal Digital Mobility Services;
~ Involving public transport users, different governance levels and relevant stakeholders in the decision-making process.
