Connecting and Analysing the Digital Transport Ecosystem

Project Information

CONNECTIVE

Grant agreement ID: 777522

DOI

10.3030/777522

Project closed

EC signature date 30 August 2017

Start date 1 September 2017

End date 31 October 2023

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Smart, Green And Integrated Transport

Total cost

€ 5 025 410,37

EU contribution

€ 3 513 534,52

Coordinated by

INDRA SISTEMAS SA
Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 6 - CONNECTIVE (Connecting and Analysing the Digital Transport Ecosystem)

Reporting period: 2023-01-01 to 2023-10-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

#Context
Shift2Rail(S2R) is the first European rail initiative to seek focused research and innovation (R&I) and market-driven solutions by accelerating the integration of new and advanced technologies into innovative rail product solutions. CONNECTIVE is one of the projects that integrate S2R Innovation Programme 4: IT solutions for attractive Railway services. IP4 is focused on defining an Attractive Railway System integrated seamlessly with all other modes of transport, enabling seamless Door-to-Door pan-European travel. Within this IP, CONNECTIVE is a key project that aims to provide other S2R-IP4 projects with a technical framework and a set of tools that will foster interoperability and digitalization of all transport ecosystem.
#Challenges
Currently, travellers are faced with barriers when trying to engage a journey mixing rail transport with other modes: these range from needing to access multiple sources for timetables and planning information, the need to carry and purchase multiple tickets to demonstrate the validity of the different parts of the journey, to adjust to different fare media, interfaces, devices, conventions, procedures and tools developed over the years by many retailers, operators, and distributors. Even if there is some level of standardisation within each mode, a passenger travelling over different transport modes is confronted with the lack of interoperability. This makes multimodality patchy and as a consequence citizens must often switch between sites, ticketing devices or offices in order to shop, book and pay the components of their intended journey – and must have multiple tickets to validate through the multimodal journey. IP4 is working to overcome this situation and improve the current lack of capacity to perform a door-to-door journey as a seamless multimodal journey. In this context, the main challenges are to allow seamless interconnection between heterogeneous systems and to provide a common business intelligence foundation to monitor, analyze and generate data from the IP4 ecosystem.
#Objectives
It aims to implement a new technical framework that will enhance the connection between the tools provided by other IP4 Projects and with the Service Transport Providers. This framework fosters the integration of information from the different sources and operators by easing the exchange and consumption of systems and services. Moreover, the new technical framework allows the integration of business analytics tools that will provide descriptive, predictive and prescriptive techniques.
Detailed objectives
• To define the architectural principles, requirements and innovative technologies of the Technical Framework.
• To create an open “Web of Transportation” to boost the digital transformation of the European Transport into a global service and data digital ecosystem.
• To create the semantic model and collect the ontologies to describe the whole IP4 domain.
• To provide tools and methodologies to allow different actors, systems and services, to easily join or interact with the ecosystem.
• To develop descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics using multimodal data sets generated by IP4 services, transport service providers and travellers.
• To develop anonymization and simulation techniques to guarantee privacy and confidentiality.
• To provide interactive and dynamic visualization capabilities, including new techniques such as Virtual Reality, in order to present business information.
• To expand components and resolvers developed in the Interoperability Framework and Business Analytics domains within IT2Rail.
• To integrate legacy systems, external services, and other S2R-IP4 components.
# Constraints
• Existing TSP systems must be kept mainly unchanged;
• Achieve interoperability through minimum standardization;
• Ensure market uptake with a near-zero cost;

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

# Main achieved work
•Re-use of components developed in IT2Rail lighthouse project, enhancement and creation of new modules and services.
•Evolve of IP4 reference ontology considering European standards and other IP4 projects developments by defining a modular ontology and guiding other projects to contribute to its review based on their needs.
•Define of use cases to demonstrate Business Analytics applicability and a common architecture for BA across the partners.
•Define best practices for system engineering
•Set up the Technical Management Committee.
•Support on the set up the S2R-IP4 Advisory Board and participated in their bi-annual meetings.
•Update the Data Management Plan and the collaboration tool to share documents among the partners
•Create a dissemination plan to generate material and participate in dissemination activities.
•Perform dissemination activities in social media and physical events such as TRA, Innotrans and S2R Innovation days, among others
•Ensure regular technical and financial reporting.

#Main results
•Integration of the applications (Shopping, Booking and Ticketing, Trip-Tracking applications) developed in IP4
•Integration of TSP services that covers several European countries, numerous Transport services and modes of transport .
•Implementation of the F-REL Interoperability Framework Architecture including new technologies making it more scalable and flexible.
•Implementation of BA platforms and BA algorithms that are used by operators to make better decisions.
•Demonstration of CONNECTIVE (IF and BA) functionalities
-COHESIVE Final Event
-CONNECTIVE Final Event
-Shift2MaaS, Ride2Rail and IP4MaaS pilots

# Milestones Status
•MS1 Specification for Core Release - achieved
•MS2 Core Release Implementation and testing - achieved
•MS3 Specification for Additional Release – achieved
•MS4 Additional Release Implementation and testing - achieved
•MS5 Specification for Final Release – achieved
•MS6 Final Release Implementation and testing - achieved

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

The CONNECTIVE aims to enhance rail and all transport services by improving the interaction of users with transport providers by implementing two technological major areas.

“Interoperability Framework” aims to integrate the information from different sources allowing the exchange this information among the different systems, services and providers
•Providing a system that allows different actors, systems and services, to easily join or interact with the ecosystem.
•Providing business applications with a uniform view of all available data and service resources that can be consumed, regardless of their location, access method or format.
•Overcoming the fundamental obstacles impeding the deployment of interoperable systems.
•Collecting the ontologies to describe the whole IP4 domain, in collaboration with other IP4 projects.

"Business Intelligence Techniques" aims to specify, design and implement a modular platform, enabling
•Descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics using multimodal data sets generated by IP4 services, transport service providers and travellers.
•Helping transport managers and service providers to make better decisions (improve operations, a better quality of service, events management, passenger demand, and users satisfaction)
•Providing European citizens with better information and services to facilitate multimodal mobility within Europe.
•Providing interactive and dynamic visualization capabilities, including new techniques such as Virtual Reality, in order to present business information.

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