Incentivizing Collaborative Mobility by means of Multimodal Sharing Services

Project Information

InCoMMune

Grant agreement ID: 618234

Project closed

Start date 1 April 2014

End date 31 March 2018

Funded under

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 100 000,00

EU contribution € 100 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG
Luxembourg

Objective

This research aims to acquire insight into the mobility needs and activity-travel patterns of the users in order to provide collaborative solutions offering the flexibility and comfort of privately owned cars. To do so, we focus on the development of travel behavior models able to quantify the impact of these services in the whole activity-travel chain. These models will facilitate the design and (long-term) assessment of different service layouts and policies, which aim at optimizing the use of collective transport modes. To support the travelers’ decision making process, we aim at developing new travel information supporting systems as social networks. These systems are developed and tested in two pilots around the campus of the University of Luxembourg.

InCoMMune aims to bring together the advantages of travel sharing solutions, whose take up critically depends on how efficient these systems are in relation to the mobility needs of the travelers, and those offered by new information sharing technologies, which can facilitate the closing of the loop between flexible design and organization of sharing systems and the users’ activity-travel choices. In essence, by closing this loop, we here introduce the concept of collaborative mobility, where users and service providers continuously collaborate by sharing information on mobility needs and by constantly adapting the services to these needs. The focus will be on developing a new theory and models for designing and evaluating collective transport systems based on the analysis of different sharing solutions, and to connect these models to web-based and smartphone apps to offer the travelers effective sustainable alternatives to private cars.

Fields of science

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• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications › mobile phones

Programme(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG - Marie-Curie Action: "Career Integration Grants"

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG
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Funding Scheme

MC-CIG - Support for training and career development of researcher (CIG)

Coordinator

UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG

• EU contribution: € 100 000,00
• Address: 2 PLACE DE L'UNIVERSITE ; 4365 ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE ; Luxembourg
• Region: Luxembourg › Luxembourg › Luxembourg
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Alfred Funk (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data