Travelers-led Innovation in Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans

Authors

  • Glykeria Myrovali
    Affiliation
    Hellenic Institute of Transport/Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (HIT/CERTH), 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Road, Thessaloniki, 57001, Greece
  • Maria Morfoulaki
    Affiliation
    Hellenic Institute of Transport/Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (HIT/CERTH), 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Road, Thessaloniki, 57001, Greece
  • Bartholomew-Michael Vassilantonakis
    Affiliation
    Hellenic Institute of Transport/Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (HIT/CERTH), 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Road, Thessaloniki, 57001, Greece
  • Antonios Mpoutovinas
    Affiliation
    Hellenic Institute of Transport/Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (HIT/CERTH), 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Road, Thessaloniki, 57001, Greece
  • Kornilia Maria Kotoula
    Affiliation
    Hellenic Institute of Transport/Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (HIT/CERTH), 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Road, Thessaloniki, 57001, Greece
https://doi.org/10.3311/PPtr.11909

Abstract

Putting citizens in the position of city planners while giving them a sense of purpose and plans' ownership is a difficult task since the win-win effect of participating in mobility planning is, in the majority of cases, not properly communicated. Aiming to display to travelers the value of their contribution with ultimate scope to increase the participatory approach in Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) concept, the current paper presents the e-platform of MOTIVATE project (MED programme, 2014-2020) developed to cover low citizens' engagement levels. MOTIVATE e-platform is estimated to become a useful tool on the hands of city planners and transport engineers via which, the daunting task of data collection and idea/views/opinions capturing will be facilitated. Furthermore, the exploitation of MOTIVATE e-platform is estimated to support travel behavior change towards environmental friendly ways of transport and increase the acceptability, and thus the efficiency, of sustainable mobility plans.

Keywords:

sustainable mobility, citizens’ engagement, crowdsourcing, decision making support

Citation data from Crossref and Scopus

Published Online

2019-04-15

How to Cite

Myrovali, G., Morfoulaki, M., Vassilantonakis, B.-M., Mpoutovinas, A., Kotoula, K. M. (2020) “Travelers-led Innovation in Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans”, Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering, 48(2), pp. 126–132. https://doi.org/10.3311/PPtr.11909

Issue

Section

Articles