"Main results include:
• CROWD4ROADS platform: platform inctegrating mobile crowd sensing and carpooling in order to empower endusers to contribute to the sustainability of passengers' road transport. The platform allows endusers to contribute anonymous open data on road quality, while being rewarded both for the data they provide and for the sustainable habits that they adopt.
• CROWD4ROADS deployment and scalability: the platform is active in 7 countries (Italy, Romania, UK, Greece, Portugal, Denmark, Hungary) and ready to be activated wherever there is a reference community;
• Open Data: aggregated data on road quality, covering more than 64,000 kms of roads across 7 European countries (see
http://smartroadsense.it/open-data.html)(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre);
• Gamification for CAPSSI: design of a game, ""Balance Trucks"", capable of automatically generating playable terrains from any kind of Open Data, in order to raise awareness on Open Data Sets;
• Open and inclusive reward platform: the WOM (“Worth One Minute”) platform puts CAPSSI aims, citizens, and third-party stakeholders in communication in order to trigger network effects and positive externalities, which can contribute to ensure engagement, sustainability of grassroots initiatives towards the common good, and social innovation. The WOM system has been developed in the open, published under an open source license and has been recorded as a CAPSSI technological output;
• Communication: online and targeted communication, newsletter aimed at the BlaBlaCar drivers community and sponsored articles on national newspapers;
• Dissemination: 2 golden publications + 6 conference papers + 2 papers under submission;
• Exploitation: direct contacts with hundreds of municipalities and stakeholders in Italy, France, Romania, and the UK, exploitation plan based on the inclusive reward platform;
• Reuse guidelines: practical guidelies on how to exploit the results of the project outside the pilots;
• Early adoption of project results and influence on local policies: public administrations at local and regional level have officially adopted SmartRoadSense as a tool that enables efficient monitoring of their road networks. Also, the WOM platform has been adopted by local business associations, the University of Urbino, and by Regione Marche. Moreover, Regione Marche will reuse CROWD4ROADS project outcomes through the integration of the WOM platform with its carpooling platform to be adopted at a regional level;
• Validation and recognition: crowd-sensing has been officially recognized by many institutions and public administrations (Regione Marche, the Danish Road Directorate, and many municipalities in Italy and Romania) as a suitable complementary technology to enhance road monitoring frequency and lowering the costs. The Danish Road Directorate has signed a cooperation agreement with the University of Urbino to run comparative experiments to further validate the method. The experiments will be conducted by the end of 2019.
• Spin-off: a University spin-off, benefit corportarion devoted to digital social innovation, has been established in Urbino before the end of the project. The recently founded “DIGIT srl” will take over development and maintenance activities of project outputs. Starting from the technological backbone developed during the CROWD4ROADs project, innovative road monitoring solutions will be provided to public administrations and other stakeholders;
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