1 st movesmart workshop – 15 th october 2015 a platform to analyse and foster the use of green...

1st MOVESMART Workshop – 15th October 2015

A Platform to analyse and foster the use

of Green Travelling options

Project Overview - Consortium


SAITEC, S.A. – Project Leader: Spanish engineering firm with

expertise in simulation systems, engineering design and

software applications with a strong focus in social and urban

infrastructure projects.

Factor CO2: Spanish consultancy with strong experience in

environmental impact evaluation, quality certification, life

cycle assessment and software development. DeustoTech – Energy – Subcontractor: Research institute

with recognized experience in agent-based modelling,

scenario design, optimization algorithms and system

identification techniques.

Project Overview - Consortium


Silesian University of Technology – Faculty of Transport: This

Polish faculty conducts scientific research in the following

areas: transport nets optimization, transport logistics, etc. Mantis Software: Turkish firm with relevant experience in

software development and applications to all kind of electric

devices.

Project consortium consisting of al least three

independent eligible applicants from at least three

different call participating countries/regions.

Project Overview – Budget


2.826.493 € Basque Country: 34% Poland: 42% Turkey: 24%

National/Regional funding.

Funding rates determined by the rules of the participating

national/regional funding organisations.

Project Overview – Duration

36 Months Start Date: 1st June 2014 End Date: 31st May 2017

Project Concept


The GREEN TRAVELLING project aims at developing a set of

tools for the assessment of inter-modal travelling options,

fostering green transport means. Focused on the future traveller, and aligned with the

objective of developing new knowledge on different aspects

of travelling to encourage more sustainable travel patterns. Two very innovative elements of this project:

The development of a multi-modal routing algorithm that includes

the electric vehicles (EVs) as an alternative transport mean The deployment of a decision support tool that allows infrastructure

managers and public administrations to evaluate different

parametrisable scenarios according to several kind of costs, as well as

social and environmental impact.

Project Objectives


The result of this project will derive in two products: The Green Travelling Application that will allow users to choose

optimal routing alternatives taking into account their environmental

impact. The GTapp will be embedded into different interfaces such as

smart phones and consoles. The target clients are enterprises and

individuals.

The Green Travelling Platform that will be able to simulate and asses

the effect of different scenarios to test several features (incentive

systems, EV properties, etc.). The target clients are public transport

governmental agencies or departments as well as infrastructure managers.

The project usability will be tested in three case studies

featuring Basque Country, Poland and Turkey realities. They

will include real data about the GIS system, the different

transport means’ schedules and costs, local incentive

alternatives, etc.

Project Objectives – Green Travelling Application (GTapp)


The Green Travelling Application (GTapp), includes the Green

Travelling Algorithm (GTalg) embedded into the Green

Travelling Interfaces (GTint) (smart phones, car consoles, etc.).

GTalg includes a door-to-door routing optimiser that combines

alternative transport means (EVs, train, buses, bicycles, cars, etc.) and

takes into account travellers’ needs or preferences (e.g. maximum

walking distance, approximate journey time, monetary cost, etc.).

GTalg provides the assessment of the different routing alternatives

according to sustainability criteria: total journey time, associated

journey cost, environmental impact, etc. These alternatives will be

ranked according to the associated carbon footprint to foster the choice

of Green Travelling options in alignment with the objective of the

“Future Travelling” of reducing Europe’s carbon emissions.

Project Objectives – Green Travelling Application (GTapp)


GTint deploys a set of tools to make possible the use of the GTalg on

fashionable car consoles and smart phones in a user-friendly way.

Moreover, the GTalg will be connected to local traffic services in real-

time so it can include this information in its calculations. It will inform

about the state of the roads (traffic jams, road problems, etc.) and will

propose alternative routes, which will help reducing travel volumes in

the cities, supporting economic growth by avoiding people getting stuck

in traffic jams.

Project Objectives – Green Travelling Platform (GTplat)


GTplat will use a game-theoretic approach upon a multi-agent

system to simulate the real use of the GTalg. The user will be able to

define a set of scenarios to evaluate, by specifying features such as

characteristics and availability of EVs; an agent-based model describing

modal personalities, and incentive policy. The output will assess the

given scenario. Based on these results, the GTplat will be able to

evaluate the success of the incentive policy chosen to foster the use

of EVs, as well as other related issues (possible need of extra

recharging points, potential load peaks in the power network, life-

cycle-assessment-related data of the scenario, etc.). The analysis of

future uses of EVs is crucial for their practical implementation.

Progress beyond the state of the art


Multi-modal routing There are several implementations of these ideas like OpenTripPlanner

or Google Maps but unfortunately any of them includes the particular

restrictions imposed by the use of the electric vehicles (EVs), nor do

they address environmentally friendly routing strategies. The Green

Travelling project will develop a routing algorithm taking into account

the particularities of EVs as well as the environmental impact of the

route. Moreover, we will integrate the proposed algorithm in already

existing open data routing platforms (like OpenTripPlanner) to issue

door-to-door routes accordingly of the users' preferences.



Environmental indicators Some experimental pilots have included carbon footprint as an

environmental indicator to assess a particular route (e.g. MoveEuskadi).

The Green Travelling project will not only use the carbon footprint but

also other impact categories such as the ecotoxicity, energetic costs, or

ozone layer depletion. The main challenge will be related to the

characterisation of some of these indicators and its translation in

readable terms for the users.



Multi-Agent systems Incentive-Centred Design (ICD) has arose as the science studying the

use of incentives to align users’ interests with system’s goals in an

optimal way. The Green Travelling project will go beyond and will

combine incentive-centred design with individual optimal multi-modal

route planning at huge scale, exploring new ways to solve canonical

challenges such as minority problems and crowding games. The goal

will be to obtain optimal routes not in an individual sense but with

respect to the social welfare and, in this extent, we will address the

optimal routing problem as a Social Choice Problem.



Electromobility The deployment of EVs will add new electricity load and therefore

considerable research efforts are focused on the assessment of the

potential impact of the penetration of different types of EVs on the grids.

The Green Travelling project will also focus on the development of a

decision support system for the optimal allocation of charging stations in

metropolitan areas, while taking into account users’ convenience and

preferences, technical constraints of the electricity grid as well as policy

factors for the further development and promotion of electromobility,

combining thus the often contradicting interests of the stakeholders,

including EV users, urban planners and distribution system operators.

Project WorkPackages distribution


Green Travelling Application


Current version of GTAlg:

Green Travelling Platform


What-if scenarios simulator that allow to assess the

sustainability of different strategies to foster green

travelling options like:

• Modifications in the physical infraestructure (new

roads).

• Modifications in the public transport (new lines).

• Introduction of traffic incentives (access to bus

lanes).

• Introduction of economic incentives (tax reductions).

Green Travelling Platform Architecture


Combination of Geographic Information and Multi-Agent

Systems

Green Travelling Platform Principal Results


Environmental impact of the mobility needs for

Bizkaia

DEMO: http://energia.deusto.es:3006/

Green Travelling – Expected Impacts


Fostering the use of EVs contributes to reducing Europe’s

carbon emissions, improving air quality, decreasing noise

pollution and supporting economic growth

Assessing environmental impact of routing alternatives by a

standard methodology like the Life Cycle Assessment

strengths the comparison of the results with any other

European country and among different agents linking

communities and improving social cohesion.

Being able to assess the impact of different gratification

systems in the use of EVs will link different communities

interested in the new market such as those related to: public

transport services, private investors, governmental entities

of regions and cities, etc.

Green Travelling – Expected Impacts


The integration of the GTapp in smart phones and car

consoles ensures the scaling up and integration of the

technological solution provided by the project.

Offering online update of optimal routing system in relation

with the state of the roads ensures fast and reliable

journeys, improves the connectivity, ensures seamless

connected travels and promotes economic growth.

Green Travelling – Exploitation plans/strategies


The project guarantees the exploitation of two final products,

the Green Transport Application (GTapp) and the Green

Transport Platform (GTplat):

The Green Transport Application will be exploited by all the industrial

partners of the consortium: SAITEC, FactorCO2 and MANTIS. They will

make a consultancy study to analyse the potential clients, the marketing

strategy, an economical evaluation of the product, etc. Two main target

audiences should be analysed: those interested into the application for

smart phones, and those interested in the application for car consoles.

These two products will, of course, be sold with different prices,

guarantee conditions, maintenance services, etc.

Green Travelling – Exploitation plans/strategies


The Green Transport Platform will be exploited by the industrial partners

of the consortium: SAITEC, FactorCO2 and MANTIS. They will analyse all

the potential partners and elaborate a schedule for visiting target

clients. The terms in which the platform will be exploited should be

negotiated independently taking into account their nature. Easily

foreseen clients are infrastructure owners, energy supply companies,

public administrators and policy makers.

Silesian University of Technology (Faculty of Transport) and University of

Deusto will get the license for the educational use of the two final

products of this project

Thank you for your [email protected]


International project within the scope of ERA-NET Transport III Future Travelling Programme

“A platform to analyze and foster the use of Green Travelling options (GREEN_TRAVELLING)”.

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