Supporting Smarter Mobility
09.20
From 2010 to 2012
A consortium including IBM, NXP, and TML developed rush-hour technology to optimise mobility policies. TML drafted the structure for road pricing and designed and analysed the behavioural experiment.
In 2010, a consortium of companies, including IBM, NXP, Mobistar, Touring, Transport & Mobility Leuven, and Magicview, introduced rush-hour technology that would allow a national, regional, or local government to steer its mobility policy in the future. In September 2011, a practical trial was launched in cooperation with the City of Leuven to demonstrate the system's workability. The trial had three phases: a baseline measurement, the actual test in which fictitious costs were charged, and a follow-up phase. A total of 11,000 trips were carried out and almost 100,000 km were covered. During the test, a demonstrable change in mobility behaviour was observed in more than half of the subjects. Extrapolated, this would mean fewer or shorter traffic jams in and around the city of Leuven.
The results of the test prove that intelligent mobility is steering, as – in line with the city's mobility policy – there was less cut-through traffic and people drove more during off-peak periods. The trial also proved the maturity and reliability of the technology used. TML's contribution to the consortium consisted mainly of preparing a sound structure on which to base the road pricing tariffs as well as the design and analysis of the behavioural experiment.
In 2010, a consortium of companies, including IBM, NXP, Mobistar, Touring, Transport & Mobility Leuven, and Magicview, introduced rush-hour technology that would allow a national, regional, or local government to steer its mobility policy in the future. In September 2011, a practical trial was launched in cooperation with the City of Leuven to demonstrate the system's workability. The trial had three phases: a baseline measurement, the actual test in which fictitious costs were charged, and a follow-up phase. A total of 11,000 trips were carried out and almost 100,000 km were covered. During the test, a demonstrable change in mobility behaviour was observed in more than half of the subjects. Extrapolated, this would mean fewer or shorter traffic jams in and around the city of Leuven.
The results of the test prove that intelligent mobility is steering, as – in line with the city's mobility policy – there was less cut-through traffic and people drove more during off-peak periods. The trial also proved the maturity and reliability of the technology used. TML's contribution to the consortium consisted mainly of preparing a sound structure on which to base the road pricing tariffs as well as the design and analysis of the behavioural experiment.
