Unlocking mobility for everyone

Informazioni relative al progetto

UNITE

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 954654

DOI

10.3030/954654

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 10 Maggio 2020

Data di avvio 1 Giugno 2020

Data di completamento 30 Settembre 2022

Finanziato da

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Costo totale

€ 3 077 170,00

Contributo UE

€ 2 154 019,00

Coordinato da

KAROS
France

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - UNITE (Unlocking mobility for everyone)

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2021-06-01 al 2022-09-30

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

Karos ambition is to leverage collaborative consumption and artificial intelligence to revolutionize commuting in suburban areas, take cars off the road and curb related carbon emissions. The Karos solution extends the current public transportation network with unbeatable performances: a network extension & densification by a factor of 10 and a transport cost divided by 10 compared to traditional solutions (bus and on-demand). UNITE objectives is make carpooling successful at large scale, changing users daily mobility habits and integrate this new means of public transport into the emerging Mobility as a Service (MaaS) applications.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

There was significant progress on all the work packages of the project, even if the pandemic impacted the company and forced us to delay the growth of the R&D team for several months.
The integration in the MAAS public transportation system (WP2) faced good results. A proof of concept was released and we plan to release a major deployment by the end of the year.
Concerning the work on technical scalability (WP3), we demonstrated several improvements that improved the quality of the product and reduced the computational costs.
We developed tools to conduct the first analysis for Mobility habits change management (WP4) that we started to experiment successfully.

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

UNITE and KAROS make carpooling efficient and flexible on daily commutes thanks to a disruptive technological approach : its AI-powered engine analyzes users daily commutes, automatically generates offer and demand and optimizes matching between drivers and passengers. Main impacts of the project are: (i) reduced CO2 emissions, (ii) reduced local pollution, (iii) reduced car congestion, (iv) higher buying power and (v) optimized commuting times.

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