CIVITAS AGORAS 2023
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Interviews with Merten De Kinderen (Communications Manager, Mobiel 21), Maria Kamargianni (Senior Fellow, Oxford Institute of Energy Studies), Athena Tsirimpa (Head of Research & Innovation and Co-founder at Moby X), and Javier Buhigas (Consultancy at Opus Remote Sensing), bringing you insights into the market-ready mobility solutions from the Harmony, NEMO and Park4SUMP projects.
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Merten De Kinderen: I am representing Park4SUMP, which is a Horizon 2020 project under the CIVITAS Initiative framework. Park4SUMP ran from 2018 until 2022 and it aimed to help cities integrate parking management into their SUMPs. One of the solutions that came out of Park4SUMP is ParkPAD, which is a unique parking policy audit. ParkPAD can be used by cities to prepare for the future of urban parking. ParkPAD is aimed at local governments and regional goverments across Europe.
Maria Kamargianni: The objective of Harmony Model Suite is to offer to cities, to transport consultants, to metropolitan areas, a flexible tool that will support them in the planning of SUMPs. The Harmony Model Suite was the main outcome of the Harmony project. It is a platform, a next generation software platform that integrates spatial and transport models.
Athena Tsirimpa: MobyApp is a software as a service platform for collecting travel and time-use data. The target group are mobility operators, consultants, market research firms, as well as city authorities that are interested in collecting travel-related information. They can understand, they can acquire much more detailed and accurate data regarding the travel behaviour of both citizens and tourists. So they can benefit from developing more appropriate policy measures and the introduction of moblity services. For the time being it has been implemented in Turin, Oxforshire, the region of the Aegean islands, Larnaka and recently in Barcelona.
Javier Buhigas: The NEMO project is very ambitious and technological project, funded by the European Union, with 18 partners from 11 different countries. We have developed and tested new vehicle and noise remote-sensing technologies, and also new pavements and multi-functional barriers to improve air quality in our cities. We have developed a vehicle emissions remote-sensing device. It is a system that remotely analyses vehicle emissions emitted by each vehicle; carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, some hydrocarbons, particulate matter in their free-flow circulation.
The Noise Monitoring Device is a vehicle noise remote-sensing device. It is a system that measures the real noise emitted by each vehicle in the free-flow circulation. The magic is in the data-processing and the algorithms behind it. It has been implemented and tested in cities like Rotterdam, Florence and Barcelona.
