Research Details
- Funding Organization : European Commission
- Funding Programme : Competitiveness & Innovation Programme
- Funding Instrument : ICT Policy Support Programme
- Duration : 36 months
- Total Budget : 1,796,000 EUR
- ITI Budget : 120,300 EUR
- Scientific Responsible : Dr. Dimitrios Tzovaras
Description
The main purpose of HoPE is to advance the role of public transportation systems through an open platform capable of combining Interoperable Fare Management (IFM) and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). The overall platform is intended to be user oriented and user centric, in a way that will foster and promote user awareness and consciousness about public transports and eco-mobility, other than providing for a significant mix of services including info-mobility, trip planning, ticket reservation, fare calculation and mobile payments. The fruition model of the HoPE platform will be primarily based upon mobile devices and is intended to complement and enhance pre-existing information and payment systems by adding useful forecasts about partial/overall journey time and partial/overall greenhouse gas emissions (in addition to fare calculation and mobile payments). Smart Ticketing features will implement secure payment procedures exploiting different technologies (NFC, QR codes, etc.) and will seamlessly support the entire buying process, as well as the ticket validation. The HoPE platform will be piloted and tested at three European cities and will be applied to a wide set of local and regional transport means (buses, undergrounds, railway lines, car-sharing, bike sharing, etc.).
Consortium
- PLANET MEDIA STUDIOS SL, Spain
- INNOVA SPA, Italy
- Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
- ATOS SPAIN SA, Spain
- COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE & PRESS DIOPHANTUS, Greece
- TRANSPORT & MOBILITY LEUVEN NV, Belgium
- Council of the City of Coventry, United Kingdom
- INFOHUB Ltd INH United Kingdom
- ORGANISMOS ASTIKON SYGKOINONION ATHINON, Greece
- ITACA SRL, Italy
- ASOCIACION CLUSTER DE MOVILIDAD Y LOGISTICA DE EUSKADI, Spain
- Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie, Germany
- BULL MAGYARORSZAG SZAMITASTECHNIKAI KFT, Hungary