Description:
Combined Mobility in the rural public transport system to build sustainable rural public services in symbiosis with private mobility providers & citizensCombined Mobility is an emerging strategy to reorganise transport to tackle mobility and sustainability challenges by offering an alternative to private vehicle ownership in sparsely populated areas. It may do so by, for instance, combining mobility and societal services as part of a single, seamless offering that is made available to users via app subscriptions. Stronger Combined (SC) brings the concept from urban to sparsely populated areas and addresses the key challenges of public transport reformation; generic lack of knowledge among political decision-makers, changing service preferences and expectations of rural citizens, and inflexible legal and administrative frameworks of operating transport. Outputs include an open traffic data platform and transnationally validated service concepts for rural combined mobility. These will benefit travelers, private service developers, municipalities and regional public authorities. The beneficiaries apply a transnational approach of three joint processes; open data, innovation process and cooperation platforms to address the challenges. The sustainability of the processes is evaluated to enable pilot and result measurement, comparability and replication. The homogeneity of the public transport sector in the NSR enables wide uptake of green solutions for regional personal rural transport and ensures measurable long-term impact on rural living standards, mobility patterns and aggregated CO2 emissions.
IBI Group are a sub-partner of HITRANS in this project
Website: northsearegion.eu/stronger-combined/
Programme: Interreg North Sea Region (NSR)
Status: Ongoing
Timeline: Jan 2019 – Dec 2021 (now extended to June 22)
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HITRANS activities:
- HITRANS role is to explore data requirements & framework for the development of combined mobility – exploring how open data could support visualisation of route planning, travel & payment information in a digital format
- HITRANS will run an innovation process to design a new combined mobility service for tourists and locals – an application was submitted to the MaaS Investment Fund in August 2019 to progress this aim, approved in Dec 2019
- HITRANS appointed a MaaS Project Officer in May 2020 to progress our work in the project
- An e-bike share scheme will start later this year (start date dependent on movement restrictions due to Covid-19) – 3 hubs with 30 e-bikes will be setup across Inverness for residents and visitors
- HITRANS will explore needs, incentives & marketing strategies related to integration of local ride-sharing schemes and public transport operations
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