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As MyWay is moving full steam ahead, this issue will give you an overview of what has been accomplished during the fi rst year. In a series of mini-interviews, the project partners talk about accom-plishments, challenges and their role in the project.

In these fi rst 12 months, part-ners have laid the ground work in order to start implementing the platform. Our feature tells the story of the use cases that resulted from extensive work in the focus groups that have taken place in the three MyWay Living Labs Catalonia,

Berlin and Trikala. Getting this information from stakeholders and potential users is a

crucial step towards develop-ing an application that will make travel more attractive and sustainable at the same time for users.

If you are interested in further information, I invite you to visit the MyWay website at www.myway-project.eu. You may also follow our twitter feed at @MyWay_EU.

Marco BoeroMyWay Project Coordinator,

on behalf of the MyWay Consortium

Nº2, August/September 2014NEWSLETTER

DEAR READER,CONTENT

I am delighted to present you the second newsletter of the MyWay project.

EDITORIAL 1FEATURE: SCENARIOS 2SOFTECO 2VMZ 3ENIDE 3ABERDEEN 4

A LOOK AROUND EUROPE 4POLITE Final conference in Cosenza, 9 October 2014 4Enhanced WiseTrip Final Event 4Deutsche Bahn launches multimodal traff ic planner Qixxit 4Berlin launches new MOLECULES app 4

CVUT 4CATALONIA 5ATM BARCELONA 5ICCS 6E-TRIKALA 6

“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 609023.”

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FEATURE: Scenarios

SOFTECOSoft eco Sismat is involved in several MyWay work packages from administrative and technical coordination to development and exploitation activities. Marco Bo-ero, MyWay project coordinator, gives an overview about Soft eco Sismat’s involvement.

Marco, can you describe what Soft eco Sismat’s role is in the project?During the fi rst year of the project, thanks to its long experience in the fi eld of research and commercial mobility solutions, Soft eco Sismat has played an active role in the col-lection, characterization and clas-sifi cation of MyWay requirements. End-user requirements have been merged with requirements sug-gested by technical partners and stakeholders to realize an innova-tive eff ective mobility platform.Did you also take part in defi ning the technical specifi cations?Yes, our company has collaborated to the MyWay conceptual and technical architecture with the pre-cise goal of designing a modular, reliable and fl exible system easily applicable to the living labs fi rst and to new regions during the com-mercialization phase.What about implementation? How is Soft eco Sismat involved in the next phase of actual develop-ment?Soft eco Sismat has designed and started the implementation of the MyWay Open Api representing the main interface of the MyWay platform core towards front-end application and 3rd party clients, and of the Service E2E orchestrator in charge of coordinating MyWay core components to satisfy user requests.

Before even starting to implement a multi-modal traff ic planning application such as MyWay, it needs to be clear how it will be used.

One important part of the first project year therefore was to develop a number of use cases for the application. In our feature, we present three of the scenarios that have been developed for MyWay – one from each Living Lab.Under the lead of a team from the University of Aberdeen, the MyWay partners and Living Labs worked hard to get a complete picture of diff erent use cases for the application in the three demonstration cities. “Very important input was delivered through the focus groups that were held in the diff erent cities”, says Kate Pangbourne of the University of Aberdeen. Mr Pepper and Mrs Ginger, two imaginary in-habitants of Berlin, might serve as an example. Mr Pepper, a car owner looking for car-poolers, and Mrs Ginger, who so far only uses public transport, could both be prospective users of MyWay. Through the app, both can discover each other. Mr Pepper uses his car to pick up Mrs Ginger at the station, while Mrs Ginger can fi nd him through the location-sharing feature of the app. Mr Pepper knows when she arrives: MyWay uses real-time information from the city’s public transport providers. The list of functions and services that MyWay provides in this scenario is long. Car-pooling (a fl exible and communal service), multi-modal journey planning, navigation (walking and driv-ing), parking and waiting, cost sharing, real-time schedule and location information are all services needed to make this scenario work. But MyWay isn’t only supposed to work for people traveling to and from university. One could imagine an elderly couple living outside Barcelona – let’s call them Jordi and Nuría– who would use the MyWay app twice in one day, but in diff erent ways. Both would go from their village to Barcelona using MyWay to fi nd someone to share a car with. To get back, however, they could book a bus on demand through the app that takes them back at the time of their choosing. Another feature of

MyWay comes into play here: journey booking.Cristina Pou- Fonollà of the regional govern-ment of Barcelona says that this is a use case that came out of one of their focus group meetings. “We as a transport department want to make sure people can use our bus-on-demand system more easily. Our focus group meetings, also with elderly people, confi rmed that an app such as MyWay would help them a great deal in using the system.”

“MYWAY WILL BE A SMART MOBILITY RESOURCE MANAGER,” SAYS PROJECT COORDINATOR MARCO BOERO. “THAT MEANS IT WILL BE MORE THAN JUST A TRAFFIC PLANNING APP. WE WANT TO INTEGRATE AS MUCH INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE ABOUT TRAFFIC IN A CITY, AND ADAPT IT TO THE NEEDS OF DIF-FERENT PLACES.”

For Trikala, this could mean providing real-time information on available parking spots. Indeed, one of the scenarios that local partner e-Trikala developed revolves around “Sophia”, a local lawyer, moves around the city from one appointment to another – sometimes fi ve a day, using her private car. However, she loses a lot of time looking for available parking spots. MyWay could help her with real time informa-tion, which would ease congestion and make parking more eff icient in the city.

“EVEN IN A SMALLER CITY LIKE TRI-KALA, WHERE WE DO NOT HAVE A VERY COMPLEX PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM, MYWAY COULD PROVIDE VERY USE-FUL SERVICES TO PEOPLE SUCH AS SOPHIA,” says Athanasios Ballis of local partner e-Trikala.

As these examples and uses cases show, the fo-cus groups did a great job to prepare the ground for the second year of the project. Implementa-tion and development of the actual application are just starting. Mr Pepper, Mrs Ginger, Jordi, Núuría and Sophia – or rather, their real-world counterparts – can’t wait until MyWay fi nally shows up in their app store of choice.

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Tom Schilling is responsible for MyWay at VMZ, the traff ic information centre Berlin.

In our short interview, Tom looks back at the role of VMZ during the fi rst year of the project and what VMZ wants to achieve through MyWay.

Tom, could you give us a short introduction about the role of VMZ in MyWay?

TOM SCHILLING: VMZ Berlin is the responsible partner for the provision of traff ic and routing information within the Berlin Living Lab. Exist-ing static and real time traff ic information for the Berlin Living Lab is mainly made available through VMZ.

VMZ Berlin is focusing on three use cases in particular (see box). What data and routing capabilities do you need to realize these?

To realize these use cases, VMZ is going to include its own Intermodal Router in MyWay. This component uses four single, modal third party routers: for walking parts a Google rout-er will be used. For individual motorized traff ic trips a TomTom router is going to be used. Bicycle parts will be calculated through the specialized biking router BBBike and parts of public transportation will be calculated by the VBB router, the router of the local public transport association.

What about intermodal trips and shared mobility off ers?

These single modal parts will be combined to intermodal routes. These functionalities will be extended by ridesharing and bike sharing functionalities. The ridesharing service will be integrated by adapting to the operator Flinc, the national platform for short and long dis-tance ride sharing off ers in Germany. The bike sharing services will be realized via a connec-tion to the operators nextbike and Call a Bike.

Stefano Persi, founder ENIDE, one of the Catalonian partners in MyWay, tells us about the role of his company in the project. One of their most exciting tasks: develop the iOS app of the MyWay planner…

ENIDE

Stefano, tell us a few words about ENIDE.ENIDE is an ITC company that par-ticipates in several EU projects pro-viding a combination of technical and business case experience. Cen-tered on developing innovative and high value solutions on Logistics and Mobility, ENIDE focuses its work on producing something useful for the users and ready to be exploited commerciality.

What is ENIDE’s role in the MyWay project?In the specifi c case of MyWay, ENIDE is responsible for the coordination of the three Living Labs and for the setup of the Catalonia one. ENIDE also plays a relevant role in coordinating the defi -nition of the scenarios, defi nition of requirements and living labs specifi ca-tion. ENIDE has driven these activities taking into account key aspects such as product innovation, technical feasi-bility but also the analysis of diff erent business models and further exploita-tion opportunities.

ENIDE has been working on the iOS version of the MyWay app. Can you tell us some more about it?Furthermore, the ENIDE team, aft er playing a key role in shaping MyWay from the conception to the archi-tecture design, has been working hard on the integration with the back-end components across the fi rst version of the iOS App of My-Way. This has been done bearing in mind that users do not only value innovative algorithms and function-alities, but that they are also asking for more and more useability and respect of privacy. The App will be used in all the three Living Labs (Catalonia, Berlin and Trikala) dur-ing the fi rst trial in early 2015.

BERLIN USE CASESVMZ and the other Berlin partners focus on the realization of three use cases, including:

• Joint trips to university: a private ridesharing use case

• Incident in public trans-port: a use case with a disruption in the public transport network and a continue of ride with bike sharing

• Sustainable alternatives: Searching for an alterna-tive transport option, producing less emissions

VMZ

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A look around Europe

ABERDEENTHE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ELEMENTS OF WORK TO UNDERSTAND AND INFLUENCE MOBILITY BEHAVIOURS.

Kate Pangbourne looks back at the fi rst year activities of her team in MyWay.Kate, who is working on MyWay for the University of Aberdeen?Kate Pangbourne: Our team combines expert knowledge in travel behaviour and transport studies with information tech-nology user research.What did your work in the project look like during the fi rst year?Over the past year we have worked with the partners in the Living Labs to coordinate the production of a series of scenarios that comprehensively cover the important user-related functionalities of MyWay. The scenarios have been validated in Focus Groups held in each Living Lab, targeting the priority user groups (city centre commuters, university communities and re-tired people over the age of 60). Why were these focus groups chosen?These user groups have been prioritised because of their journey type characteristics. However, we are also using travel attitude segmentation to further refi ne our understanding of the heterogeneity within these target user groups. This segmentation helped us to interpret the results of the focus groups, and will also be used in the coming year as we explore how to eff ectively infl u-ence the mobility behaviours of people in the priority user groups, whilst retaining MyWay’s user-centric principles.

POLITE FINAL CONFERENCE IN COSENZA, 9 OCTOBER 2014The POLITE project is holding its fi nal confer-ence on 9 October in Cosenza, Italy.POLITE partners work together in the exchange and transfer of experiences and improvement of policies, knowledge & good practices on info-mobility services in their regions, with the goal of improving their public transport information systems. In addition, POLITE plans to establish links with other experienced regions from out-side the partnership, off ering support for bilat-eral exchange on selected infomobility topics.

POLITE supported by the EU Regional Develop-ment Fund and the INTERREG IVC programme.

More information is available on the POLIS website.

ENHANCED WISETRIP FINAL EVENTThe Enhanced WISETRIP project held its fi nal event on 29 August in Brussels.Enhanced WISETRIP has developed a unifi ed intermodal planner for international journeys which incorporates functions for planning, book-ing and travelling multimodal journeys adapted to user needs including multiple trip criteria, environmental impact and personal preferences.

Final project results will be published soon on the WISETRIP project web-site.

DEUTSCHE BAHN LAUNCHES MULTI-MODAL TRAFFIC PLANNER QIXXITGerman railway company Deutsche Bahn re-cently launched Qixxit, its multimodal traff ic planning platform. In addition to short- and long-distance rail and bus connections, Qixxit covers private means of transport such as the user’s own car, car sharing, park & ride and bike & ride options, rental cars and bikes, several long-distance bus services, taxis, bikeways, footpaths and even fl ights. The platform is for now limited to Germany.

More information can be found on the devel-oper’s website.

BERLIN LAUNCHES NEW MOLECULES APPMyWay partner VMZ has launched an in-novative multimodal Mobility App within the MOLECULES project.The MOLECULES App is a new service for users of electric car sharing. It combines the off ers of the car sharing provider DriveNow with information about the location and availability of charging stations in Berlin. In addition, real-time informa-tion of public transport and motorized individual traff ic complete the functions.

Molecules is available for Android (4.0 and up) and iOS.

CVUT Michal Jakob is a researcher at the Technical University of Prague (CVUT). At CVUT, Michal is responsible for defi ning an inte-grated technical specifi cation for the MyWay Rout-er. In our short interview, he looks back at what has been achieved during year 1 of the project.

Michal, what has been accomplished during the fi rst year at CVUT?

In the fi rst year of the project, CVUT accom-plished several important results. We have fi n-ished the conceptual design of the MyWay sys-tem, which was summarized in the D2.3 Initial system architecture and specifi cation deliver-able. The design process started with the col-lection of requirements derived from the user stories collected in the three project living labs. Proper incorporation of user needs and priorities was one of the driving factors during system design. The requirements have been rated by their importance for particular living labs and assessed with regards to their technical feasibil-ity. This assessment included also the analysis of external data availability in individual living labs.

How were the ranking and the results used?

The requirements have been the basis for the conceptual design of the system performed

under CVUT leadership in the second half of the fi rst year.

During the design, we have identifi ed the main components of the MyWay platform, main inter-faces between them, external data processed by the platform and we have also designed the key workfl ows in the system. The conceptual system design of the platform has been performed as collaborative task led by CVUT. For eff icient col-laboration, we have used online collaborative tools Redmine and Cacoo.

Does this mean actual development of the trip planning component of MyWay is already un-der way?

Towards the end of the fi rst year, we started developing the core component of the MyWay platform – the trip planner, which is computing trips according to user’s request and prefer-ences. For trip planning functionality, we have adopted a meta-planning approach which works by providing a high-level meta-planner that integrates results from a number of specialized sub-planners which only support a subset of transport nodes or and/or only part of the geo-graphical area of interest. The meta-planning approach allows reusing existing local planners, including planning data they use, and enables seamless, fully intermodal planning across the whole area of interest.

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MYWAY OBJECTIVES

Enable a better bal-ance between mobility off ers by facilitating the seamless integration of public transport and other sustainable public and private transport modes in users’ personal mobility choices.

Stimulate service coop-eration and market de-velopment by providing tools and technical solu-tions for transport service providers and operators to help improve service off er, interoperability and accessibility in the overall multimodal service chain.

Enhance the personalisa-tion and user adaptation of mobility services by in-creasing the cooperation between users and the transport system through incorporating user experi-ences, social networking and crowd sourcing in service planning and use.

Foster ICT transforma-tive technologies in smart mobility by provid-ing and validating in real-life conditions innovative technological solutions for the next generation of smart mobility services.

“The sole responsibility for the con-tent of this publication lies with the authors. It does not necessarily refl ect the opinion of the European Commu-nities. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.”

Xavier Roselló works for ATM, one of two pub-lic bodies from Catalonia involved in the pro-ject, together with the Directorate General for Mobility and Transport of the Government of Catalonia. In our mini-interview, Xavier tells us how he established contact with sister project SUPERHUB.

Xavier, what is the role of the ATM in MyWay?The ATM (Metropolitan Transportation Author-ity of Barcelona) is one of the Catalan members of the MyWay project ATM is one of two public bodies involved in the project. ATM’s purpose is the management and organization of mobility, defi ned in the broadest possible sense. ATM’s role within the project is to provide criteria that will defi ne guidelines for the application to be developed. Moreover, the ATM actively partici-pated in the implementation of Focus Groups that were carried out in Barcelona together with other Catalan partners. SUPERHUB is a very similar project to My-Way. What do both have in common?Together with the University of Aberdeen and CVUT from Prague, ATM is one of the three common members of MyWay and the SUPER-

HUB project. The purpose of the two projects is similar, and therefore ATM made sure that both projects can exchange knowledge be-tween each other. SUPERHUB started in Oc-tober 2011 and will be completed by Novem-ber 2014, aft er a period of 38 months, while MyWay is still in its fi rst year of life. A good reason to bring both together…Due to their membership of the two projects, the ATM held a joint meeting at the head-quarters of ENIDE, which was attended by Catalan partners in MyWay and SUPERHUB, which are the UPC, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and Barcelona Digital, plus the ATM. In a long and fruitful meeting, partners from SUPERHUB explained what they had learned during their long experience in the project, hoping that it would be useful to My-Way colleagues.

ATM BARCELONA

The Catalonia region is one of the three MyWay Living Labs. Since the project was kicked off in September 2013 in a meeting hosted by the regional council, much has been accomplished by the region. Cristina Pou Fonollà gives us an overview of the activities.Currently, the multimodal journey planner of the Generalitat de Catalunya – the regional govern-ment of Catalonia - is called Mou-te and includes all public transport modes within the region of Catalonia as well as the private car within the ori-gin and/or destination of the trip. Therefore, Mou-te can provide multimodal trips combining public transport and private car within the same itinerary. The main goals of the Government of Catalonia within the MyWay project include the improve-ment of this router with a new platform based on a user profi le and preferences which would cover more innovative modes of transport such as the buses with high level of service expres.cat.

During the fi rst year of the MyWay project, the Government of Catalonia has been involved in several Work Packages. Firstly, within WP1 ‘Mo-bility Behaviour’, Catalonia has played an impor-tant role in the defi nition of the 11 scenarios and uses cases of the Barcelona Living Lab as well as with the organization, coordination and reports of the 8 Focus Groups. Cristina Pou Fonollà from the government of Catalonia explains: “We have organized 4 focus groups with workers and com-muters, 2 with people working within the Gov-ernment of Catalonia headquarters, 1 within the Bellaterra University and 1 within Vall del Tenes

area. There have also been 2 focus groups with students of the Bellaterra University and students who live in Vall del Tenes area. Finally, there have been 2 afocus groups with elderly people who live in Vall del Tenes area.”

Secondly, as a public administration, the govern-ment of Catalonia has provided functional and non-functional requirements for the defi nition of the MyWay platform, taking into account the know-how and experience with the region’s cur-rent journey planner Mou-te as well as the govern-ment’s mobility and transport strategies and goals for the future. “Moreover, we have provided to the consortium the internal technical requirements of the Generalitat in order to make sure that the developments achieved could be integrated in our corporative informatics system in the near future,” explains Cristina Pou Fonollà.

Catalonia has also played an important role within other work packages, most notably in the defi nition of the Barcelona Living Lab specifi ca-tion and the evaluation plan to carry out, defi ning the performance indicators as well as the number expected of real and pilot users in every phase of the project and the surveys to be completed.

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E-TRIKALA

ICCSDuring MyWay’s fi rst year, ICCS has been active in diverse activities including the defi nition of key performance indicators, mobile application requirements as well as the architecture and design, and the Trikala living lab description. ICCS also steered the evaluation and planning work package and has delivered detailed methodol-ogy specifi cations. Theodoros Theodoropoulos gives us an over-view of the activities and what to expect from the second year.

The goal of defi ning key perfor-mance indicators and evaluation methodology was to create an assessment framework that will be executed in MyWay’s living labs. Feedback from the assessment will be provided to design and develop-ment teams, in order to improve the QoS provided by MyWay. Living labs are essential parts of this pro-cess. Therefore a detailed defi ni-tion of IT and transport infrastruc-ture has been performed for all 3 of them. ICCS led this eff ort with respect to the Trikala living lab.

Mobile application requirements as well as architecture and design defi nition processes aimed at supporting the European Smart Mobility Resource manager with a user friendly mobile platform that will harvest personalized trip information in order to propose journeys that make eff icient use of the transport network and fulfi ll user expectations, environmental policies and global social require-ments. Eff orts are now focused on creating an ergonomic platform that ensures rapid user famil-iarization with the application’s workfl ow and options. Moreover it targets at limiting user transac-tions when planning a trip or when setting up preferences, thus avoiding excessive distraction and fatigue. Such user experience must be performed in an energy eff icient manner that minimizes energy demanding operations such as network transactions or GPS usage.

Implementation is also focused on creating a developer friendly application. MyWay will evolve in the future, therefore it is essential to form a solid working base that enables seamless maintenance, upgrade and extension. Standard-ized APIs are used towards this pur-pose and implementation follows the modular architecture derived for MyWay’s mobile applications.

Development activities are ongoing and soon MyWay will be tested in the three pilot sites around Europe. More news is to be expected soon!

Athanasios Ballis reports on how MyWay can be used in a mid-sized city such as Trikala in Greece. Although smaller than its counterparts Barcelona or Berlin, Trikala is nonetheless committed to take its public transport system into the future.

Six focus group meetings were conducted, including the above categories. Valuable feedback was received from all of them and taken into consideration towards the next project steps.

As far as the technical implementation is concerned, e-Trikala also provided traff ic data of various types to technical partners. All this was part of the initial planning and setup phases of the Living Lab implementa-tion – now everything is in place awaiting the implementation of the MyWay application.

Finally, it is worth noting that that e-Trikala concurrently runs two more mobility EU projects which have considerable potential for synergy with MyWay.

These two FP7 projects are CityMobil2 and TEAM. Both can be combined with MyWay. A new mini bus line of driverless automated vehicles will run as a pilot in Trikala as part of the fi rst project, and better management of the municipal bus fl eet and other im-proved transport modes will result from the second one.

More information is available on the project websites:http://www.citymobil2.eu/en/https://www.collaborative-team.eu/

TRIKALA USE CASESDuring the fi rst project year, e-Trikala developed a number of use cases that would be used by the local MyWay end users within the Trikala Living Lab. The expected functionalities, issues and targets were discussed and examined. Three main categories of users have been identifi ed:

• elderly travelling to/from hospitals or recreational centres

• students travelling to/from the University which is located three kilometres far from the city centre

• off ice workers moving to/from their work