The first 18 months of the MoTiV activities largely focused on establishing the internal conditions for the achievement of the main results of the project during the second period.
The MoTiV conceptual framework contains a comprehensive review of emerging VTT conceptualisations, models and results. Common to these approaches is the idea that investments and policies in transport infrastructure and services should support a large variety of requirements and objectives, not only of an economic nature. These requirements include, among others, accessibility, equity, empowerment, participation, environmental friendliness, individual health and well-being. The MoTiV conceptual framework is grounded on the notion of Value Proposition of Mobility (VPM): this can be regarded as the value embedded in individual mobility choices. As such, the value proposition of mobility is focused on the individual traveller and his/her perceived travel experience. The VPM perspective is based on the idea that each transport mode, or combination of transport modes, provides a different value proposition to the traveller in a specific mobility situation. Time and cost savings represent only two of these factors, not necessarily the one contributing the most to VTT. The MoTiV conceptual framework illustrates how the notion of VPM in MoTiV is explored by combining several existing concepts and models on VTT. among them, the concept of Reasonable Travel Time (RTT) was adopted to develop a holistic approach to decompose the multiple dimensions of the VPM into a set of hypotheses to be verified through the MoTiV data collection.
At an organisational level, the MoTiV consortium discussed and agreed the general requirements, targets and modalities for the Data Collection Campaigns (DCC) to take place in the participating countries with the common goal of collecting at least 4,000 samples. To meet the ambition of the data collection, user engagement was a key requirement. Due to the specific needs of the MoTiV DCC, the consortium developed its own smartphone app with a well-defined brand: “Make your journey worthwhile” is the slogan of the Woorti app, which was available in iOS and Android app stores from 30 April 2019. The technological development of the Woorti app, designed around the complex requirements of the conceptual framework. The European-wide MoTiV data collection campaign (DCC) was conducted in two phases between May and December 2019.The analysis of the results based on the MoTiV dataset revealed factors influencing the value of travel time as perceived by travellers across genders and generations in connection with cultural and social contexts in 8 EU countries. The cost-benefit analysis has also been conducted from the perspective of Value of Travel Time. These findings have been combined into an attractive policy and business report discussing the value of user data in transport and the importance of travel time and suggesting recommendations related to making alternative modes more attractive than motorised transport, use of ICT in transport, transport services and infrastructure and the promotion of ride-sharing services which was disseminated both online and at relevant events to policy and business actors.
