This activity received funding from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body if the European Union under the Horizon 2020, the EU financial Programme for Research and Innovation. Activity code 20212
By the time of the project, COVID-19 was still spreading, and social distancing was one of the preventer measures taken worldwide. With mobility restrictions being eased in most countries, people were encouraged to go back to work, and the use of Public Transport (PT) and public spaces were expected to grow steadily. Thus, crowds were expected, and maintaining the required distance was going to be an issue.
Overcrowding has consequences in many aspects of the city life, such as commercial economy, social activities, etc. The idea of CO-APS was to consider these aspects by implementing Mobile, Web and Cloud technologies based on previous H2020 projects.
The gamification App allowed the public transport operators to gather data, not only from their own sources (such as those from occupancy sensors, cameras, ticket validation, etc.), but also from users, who would be rewarded with some benefits in transports services by participating in several challenges proposed (for example, asking them how busy it was in a specific station, or what percentage of passengers were wearing masks).
CO-APS was tested in various use cases/small scale pilots involving the consortium stakeholders: Barcelona-Spain (TMB train stations), City of St. Germain-France (pedestrian commercial streets), Karditsa-Greece (multimodal mobility), Sofia-Bulgaria and Istanbul-Turkey (transport hubs).
