RörLa - Moving Rural Areas
The project aims for call-controlled public transport in the pilot municipalities to include all available modes of transport for the best service to residents in rural areas.
Public transport has been followed by difficulties with large unnecessary overcapacity and great difficulties in meeting the demand for travel and transport at low demand. From a consumer perspective, traffic does not meet reasonable requirements for travel and delivery time, convenience and reliability. The composition of the population base shows a sharply increasing proportion of older people. The proportion of people entitled to travel services is high in a number of municipalities and tends to increase. There is significant potential in increased travel with public transport in increased tourism and the large industrial investments in the county.
All in all, there is thus a need to streamline operations by coordinating socially paid travel with commercial travel. This is done with the help of Predictive Movement, a digital platform that acts as a collaboration place for transporting people and goods with the help of modern technology such as AI, block chain, route optimization and digital twin.
The project aims to ensure that call-controlled public transport in the pilot municipalities includes all available modes of transport for the best service to residents in rural areas.
This goal is to be achieved through work with, among other things, business model development, policy & regulatory changes, pilots and adaptation of systems. The project is a collaboration of three research groups at Luleå University of Technology (Information Systems, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Architecture) and Länstrafiken Norrbotten.
FINANCERS
Vinnova with support from the program Fordonsstrategisk Forskning and Innovation (FFI) and the Norrbotten region.
PROJECT MANAGER
Luleå University of Technology
PARTIES
Länstrafiken Norrbotten, the Regional Public Transport Authority in Norrbotten, Luleå Lokaltrafik AB
PROJECT TIME
November 2021 - October 2025
Contact
Johanna Lindberg
- Researcher
- 0920-491630
- johanna.lindberg@ltu.se
- Johanna Lindberg
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