Foot Transport for a Smart Mobility

Project Information

FOOT TRANSPORT

Grant agreement ID: 826831

DOI

10.3030/826831

Project closed

EC signature date 31 July 2018

Start date 1 August 2018

End date 30 November 2018

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Total cost

€ 71 429,00

EU contribution

€ 50 000,00

Coordinated by

FOOT ANALYTICS SL
Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - FOOT TRANSPORT (Foot Transport for a Smart Mobility)

Reporting period: 2018-08-01 to 2018-11-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

Foot Analytics brings to the market Foot Transport, the first large-scale integrated solution that allows transport operators, manufacturers and other stakeholders, like network planners and public authorities, tracking in real-time each individual passenger’s journey on public transport systems, in order to obtain automatically a precise and detailed analysis of their behavioural profile that helps predict the real demand of urban mobility.
Foot Transport offers a fully integrated comprehensive solution, whereas our competitors (census and surveys, automatic passenger counting systems and smart card data sources) simply provide partial options that do not provide quantitative and qualitative KPIs (behaviour and urban mobility) at competitive prices. Besides, Foot Transport will be able to estimate the real demand of spatiotemporal urban mobility, a crucial KPI for transport operators and network planners. Our main objective pursues the integration of the mobile operator’s (Orange) data records, the optimization of the analytics and visualization platform and the validation through several pilots covering the entire bus and metro networks in Barcelona.

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

During the Feasibility Study we have performed a technical, commercial and financial assessment of the project with the following results:
From the positive experience gained through the trials performed, during this feasibility assessment we have specified the technical requirements to: improve the system of control and monitoring of devices, optimize the balanced data ingestion and high availability, and improve the calculation scaling. In particular we have identified the next areas of improvement as: integration with the mobile operator data (Orange Smart Data cloud platform), real time data collection, processing and visualization, improved passenger presence tracking (based on exposition time) and profile segmentation based on use. We have also performed a technical risk analysis and prepared a contingency plan based on the initial risks identified. Additionally, we extended our market analysis and update the financial forecast accordingly.

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)

Foot Transport will disrupt the urban mobility market by tracking in real-time the passenger’s journey and providing a behavioural profile that enables a more accurate prediction of the real demand of public transport, and therefore a more efficient management of the urban mobility. These are the main associated socio-economic benefits:
Positive environmental impact: Cities will increase the share of public transport as well as improving the environment and traffic safety. Information flows will improve leading to more efficient communication and environmental reporting.
Improving urban quality life: Urban passengers will experience higher safety and punctuality, and clearer and more relevant information.
Increased efficiency: Public transport operators will increase their profitability through higher operational efficiency and new revenue streams. Improved public transport will help to increase their competitiveness and attract more competence.

"Foot Transport ""out-of-the-box"" technology"