The yearly growth of personal mobility results in increasing safety, economic and environmental concerns. SUNSET alleviates these concerns by taking a new approach to urban mobility management using the latest ICT technologies. It is about cooperation by information sharing and provision of positive incentives between travellers, road authorities and other parties.
The information is targeted on individual travel behaviour, and thus allows road authorities to fine-tune their transport policies and individuals to meet their personal objectives. The personalized approach can also help to alleviate other societal problems as social safety, social exclusion and even personal health.
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New possibilities arise for sustainable urban travel. To make smart choices as a traveler based on personalized information and preferences. But what is most valued by the traveler? By you? Please fill in the online survey to give your opinion and attitude towards incentives and information that could change your travel behavior. Your input helps us to design the successful solutions of the future and to understand what travelers really want.
SUNSET: Sustainable Social Networking Services for Transport
The SUNSET innovation project uses four mechanisms to create new sustainable mobility solutions:
- Web 2.0 technology to create communities that are involved in mobility
- ICT technology to collect individual travel patterns and to distribute information
- Positive incentives to encourage and help travellers to adopt a more sustainable mobility behaviour. Incentives may stem from all parties involved and may contain information about the current and future status of the transport infrastructure and about travel alternatives. Also feedback information of individual travel behaviour or financial incentives will be involved.
- Living labs to evaluate the SUNSET system under well-monitored conditions. In the Enschede Living Lab two releases of the full system are evaluated. Two other locations are used to benchmark the SUNSET results.
The SUNSET consortium contains partners from the complete value chain: providers of locationbased services, mobile operators, local authorities, green mobility solutions and well-known research centres. The consortium will design, build, implement, test and evaluate the application. This includes research on the effects of various incentives, on mobility-pattern recognition techniques by mobile applications, on community-building mechanisms in newly developed portals, and on the roles and influences of all parties involved.
Read more about the project in the SUNSET Factsheet.