Predictive Movement - Transports in cities and rural areas

Predictive Movement aims to create a digital competition-neutral platform that can act as a collaborative hub for the transports of people and goods to enhance accessibility while addressing interorganizational collaboration issues.

The project focuses on developing and testing digital solutions that enable better problem recognition and coordination of transport between different actors in the area. This is based on analyses of technical conditions, systems and processes, the actors' need for coordination, innovation of business models, distribution of transport services between urban and rural areas, and policy processes that can support change in the transport system.

Two pilot areas were selected to develop and test methods and technologies in different areas with different conditions and use cases for transport coordination.

Pilot 1 focuses on developing the digital platform based on use cases and business logic in relation to iBox's operations. iBoxen provides infrastructure in the form of parcel boxes and works with a digital tool for transport companies and their customers that ensures that final delivery to customers runs as smoothly as possible for all parties.

Pilot 2 focuses on highlighting transport needs and coordination challenges across an entire region. Gotland was chosen partly because it is an island, which makes ferry transport a crucial bottleneck for transport to and from the island, and partly because ferry transport is the reason why Gotland's transport sector contributes significantly to emissions in the county. There is therefore considerable interest in reducing emissions from transport, but the structure of the transport sector on Gotland poses a challenge.

The project's objectives are to develop and adapt:

• a competition-neutral digital platform that is being tested in a real environment in Pilot 1,
• a digital twin tested in Pilot 2,
• business models for transport coordination tested in both pilots based on customer needs, and
• an index for equal parcel deliveries across the country.

The results of the analyses and insights from the pilot studies are expected to inform transport policy and policy processes about the possibilities for digital transport coordination.