This project has received funding from the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 101015492
The IP4MaaS project aimed to advance the uptake of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) schemes by analysing and testing technologies developed under the Innovation Programme 4 (IP4) of the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking.
The objective of the project was to demonstrate the optimization, through the IP4 ecosystem, of the use of multi-modal travel by reducing the number of vehicles and by providing communication between the homes of different people who travel to different destinations but share modes along their trips.
IP4MaaS conducted six demonstrations across Europe (Barcelona, Athens, Warsaw, Osijek, Liberec, and Padua) testing IP4 technologies in different contexts. For each site, the main mobility pain points were identified, and it was assessed how IP4 solutions could help to solve them.
Sparsity was the Barcelona site demo leader.
The demonstration consisted in integration of the services of certain Transport Service Providers (TSPs) of Barcelona Metropolitan Area considering technical, legal, and business aspects and then recruiting testers/volunteers to test and provide feedback on the Travel Companion application.
Barcelona Metropolitan area can be characterized as a polynuclear urban region (PUR), with thirty-six municipalities in total, divided in 3 zones. Based on that, it was decided to focus on commuters and students who live in the second or third zone of the Metropolitan area and work at the first zone or vice versa. Hence, they must commute each day and cross different zones. The testers had to download the application and use it while travelling by means of Public Transport (i.e., buses, metro) and combined itineraries with private transport on demand services (test multimodality) and to provide us feedback regarding the selected functionalities with the use of the online User Satisfaction Index questionnaire form. The USI questionnaire was developed as part of the WP3, task T3.2 “User satisfaction with IP4 solutions”.
Feedback from users showed that overall impressions of the demo were quite positive and that users understood the potential of the tool, despite it was not completely mature.
