New urban mobility options: Alternative futures and their impact in transport planning techniques

Trabajo presentado en: R-Evolucionando el transporte, XIV Congreso de Ingeniería del Transporte (CIT 2021), realizado en modalidad online los días 6, 7 y 8 de julio de 2021, organizado por la Universidad de BurgosThe acceleration of technology evolution is changing urban mobility at a much faster pace than we have seen in previous decades, leading to an increasingly uncertain future within this field. It is very likely that current transport planning tools and techniques will have to be adapted to the increasing number of innovative mobility forms in order to maintain their usefulness in the urban policy cycle. In this paper, we present a series of explorative scenarios for European urban mobility and the consequent challenges that they imply for such tools and techniques. Two groups of scenarios have been developed for assessing two different uncertain relations. First, a set of exogeneous scenarios has been defined for studying how different urban mobility socioeconomic contexts could affect the evolution of emerging mobility solutions. These scenarios are adaptations of the IPCC’s Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. Second, a set of pathways that these mobility innovations may follow has been shaped in order to determine to what extent each innovation will potentially pose new requirements on transport data sources, models and decision support tools. The methodology used for developing the scenarios started by a literature review covering the most prominent urban mobility trends. Then, policy-makers and modellers were engaged in the process through a series of workshops and a Delphi poll. This served to gather inputs from a wide range of end-users and practitioners. The paper covers the results from these methodologies, unveils the resultant scenarios, and outlines the conclusions in terms of future plausible requirements for transport planning tools and techniques.This research is supported by the European project MOMENTUM-Modelling Emerging Transport Solutions for Urban Mobility, funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under Grant Agreement No 815069

DRT service requirements and KPIs. Multidepart. DEL01

This document corresponding to deliverable DEL01 “DRT service requirements and KPIs’’ is produced in the context of Task A2102, Requirements and Methodology. The document has been developed by CERTH with the collaboration of FACTUAL, AMB, CARRIS, SANT CUGAT and TheTa and its main goal is to identify the main requirements for designing and operating DRT services, and develop the associated KPIs.As a part of MultiDEPART project, a series of surveys to key stakeholders have been done and analysed in order to obtain further information on typologies of DRT services and their acceptance. In the first part of the document the results of the surveys are presented through graphic representation. The results of the survey were also presented in a workshop held on the 28th of June with the participation of related stakeholders. The KPIs collected for both the transport operators/technology providers and the users are also presented. In the second part of the document the technical requirements for the planning and operation of DRT services are described in details. The technical requirements are related with the main categories of the users and the system administrators and are grouped into functional and non-functional requirements. The functional requirements define a specific behavior or functions while non-functional requirements specify criteria that can be used to describe or measure the performance of the system. The conclusions and lessons learnt are critical points for the project’s progress since they will contribute to the development of the planning and operational monitoring in A2103 ‘’ DRT Planning tools’’ and A2104 ‘’ DRT Operational Monitoring Tools’’ respectively ensuring the success implementation of these tools.Preprin