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The yearly growth of personal mobility results
in increasing safety, economic and environmental concerns. SUNSET alleviates
these concerns by taking a new approach to urban mobility management using the
latest ICT technologies. It is about cooperation by information sharing and
provision of positive incentives between travellers, road authorities and other
parties. The information is targeted on individual travel behaviour, and thus
allows road authorities to fine-tune their transport policies and individuals
to meet their personal objectives. The personalized approach can also help to
alleviate other societal problems as social safety, social exclusion and even
personal health. SUNSET uses four mechanisms:
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Web 2.0
technology to create communities that are involved in mobility
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ICT
technology to collect individual travel patterns and to distribute
information
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Positive
incentives to encourage and help travellers to adopt more sustainable
mobility behaviour. Incentives may stem from all parties involved and may
contain information about the current and future status of the transport
infrastructure and about travel alternatives. Also feedback information of
individual travel behaviour or financial incentives will be involved.
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Living
labs to evaluate the SUNSET system under well-monitored conditions. In the
Enschede Living Lab two releases of the full system are evaluated. Two other
locations are used to benchmark the SUNSET results.
The SUNSET consortium contains partners from the complete value
chain: providers of location-based services, mobile operators, local
authorities, green mobility solutions and well-known research centres. The
consortium will design, build, implement, test and evaluate the application.
This includes research on the effects of various incentives, on mobility-pattern
recognition techniques by mobile applications, on community-building mechanisms
in newly developed portals, and on the roles and influences of all parties
involved.