Description
Responding to the call for action of the Investment Plans of the Region of Central Macedonia, the project RECREATE (Ecosystem Development for the Improvement of Public Transport Performance – smaRt ECosystem foR improvEment of public trAnsporT pErformance), seeks to create a cradle of business, research and advisory activities around the growing market of "smart mobility" of Public Transport, guided by the final transition to quality entrepreneurship, the increase of domestic added value and the knowledge economy.
At the same time, through the encapsulation of business potential and research excellence, it satisfies the National and Interregional imperative of smart specialization (RIS3 strategy), creating conditions of extroversion and entrepreneurship and in general actively participates in the goal of uplifting the Greek economy.
The central idea of the approach is the creation of an interconnected and automated ecosystem of applications of high level of technological maturity (TRL6), which will be developed with the bus system as the center of reference.
Utilizing innovative technological applications of high level, as well as cutting-edge operational tools, the RECREATE project attempts to create a dynamic ecosystem:
- Automated real-time recording of the operating and performance parameters of the Public Transport,
- Development and calculation of indicators for the monitoring of internal and external productivity of Public Transport,
- Feedback of end-user, actual or potential,
- Evaluation of the services provided to the triptych institutions – users – society,
- Investigation of the optimal economic and business model for the utilization of the investment.
Despite the emphasis on intelligent automation, the RECREATE project aims to restore to central Design the anthropocentric approach, considering the citizen (user of the Board or not) the main catalyst in the exercise of Transportation Policy through the detailed tracing of his needs and priorities.
The building unit of technological reference is the i-RECREATE intelligent connectivity ecosystem, which aims at the automatic collection, analysis and provision of primary and secondary information of the project, to the triptych of institutions – users – society
At the same time, through the encapsulation of business potential and research excellence, it satisfies the National and Interregional imperative of smart specialization (RIS3 strategy), creating conditions of extroversion and entrepreneurship and in general actively participates in the goal of uplifting the Greek economy.
The central idea of the approach is the creation of an interconnected and automated ecosystem of applications of high level of technological maturity (TRL6), which will be developed with the bus system as the center of reference.
Timeline
Users: - Service quality indicators - Questionnaire for the evaluation of quality indicators with a focus on the phenomenon of overcrowding and the duration of waiting at the stop and on the bus, information value, gamification, etc. Operation: -Quality of service of ΟΣΕΘ- Synergy with ΟΣΕΘ
Institution: - Indicators on the performance, efficiency and effectiveness of the operator - Data on the fleet (type of bus - technical characteristics/compatibility), personnel, vehicle kilometres, vehicle kilometres, passenger traffic, passenger satisfaction
- Description of the ways of calculating passenger traffic (based on the literature and based on the existing KTEL practice). - Information (technical characteristics)
Collection of vehicle characteristics by line and collection of data on routes, journey times and delays
Data flows, Computer systems, Administrators, System communication and information transmission, APIs, User stories, Databases and storage, Hardware and software technologies (collection and sharing of data from GPS), System Security
Development of two applications: - dashboard for KTEL (will give indicators of quality, effectiveness and efficiency in real time), - application for users (will give information on the conditions of filling in real time, duration of waiting at the stop)
Description of the investment
Market research for equipment based on the technical characteristics that the KTEL will give and the technological requirements of the applications (e.g. door height) as well as the determination by the EST of the necessary counting data (number of embarkations, disembarkations, matching at each stop, duration of opening each door)
Interconnection of Ecosystem Components
Pilot and full operation of i-RECREATE
Taking, studying and analyzing the data in order to extract a system of quality indicators and the interpretation and prediction of sizes such as commercial speed, time spent at the stop (combination with the characteristics of the stop)
Comparison of estimated passenger traffic with the actual and calculation of ticket evasion, as well as other indicators such as passenger-kilometres
Plans and implementation of publicity actions
Plans and implementation of actions to encourage the use of Public Transport
Signing of the Memorandum