Platform: http://www.petraproject.eu/
Coverage area: Rome, Venice, and Haifa (separate demonstrator projects)
Stakeholders / Developing Partners: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; IBM Research Lab, Dublin, Ireland; KDD Labs at Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy; Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; Roma Servici Per La Mobilita SRL, Rome, Italy; Azienda Veneziana Della Mobilita SPA, Venice, Italy; Transportation Research Institute at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Organisation and management: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration. It is develop through a collaboration between the stakeholders described above. KTH was the consortium coordinating institution.
Source of funding: European Union.
Initial Investment: EU funding 3.1 million Euro, total project budget 5.1 million Euro.
Development history: PETRA, short for ‘Personal Transport Advisor: an integrated platform of mobility patterns for Smart Cities to enable demand-adaptive transportation system’ development took place over approximately three years (Feb. 2014 – Jan. 2017). The concluding event with final submission of reports to the EU was held in January 2017.
Modes of transport included:
– Rome: public transport modes, cars, walking.
– Venice: public transport modes, cars, walking.
– Haifa: public transport modes, and car.
Service Features: Multi-modal journey planner. The platform provides real-time information and its particular features for each location are adjustable according to local interests and needs. Each demonstrator project had different configurations. The aim of this project was to develop an integrated platform to enable the provision of citizen-centric, demand-adaptive city-wide transportation services. Travellers will get mobile applications that facilitate them in making travel priorities and choices for route and modality.
Source of data:
– Rome: The Mobility Control Center of Roma Servizi della Mobilità serves as a data collection center on public and private mobility. Moreover, the Mobility Control Center delivers services based on knowledge of the state of the network in real time (the bus location, traffic) and on events and news inserted by the editorial board and the operators of the Control Center.
– Venice: t.b.c.
– Haifa: Haifa’s Department of Planning for Traffic, Roads and Gardens (traffic control centre).
Data flow:
– Rome: During the experimentation phase (Rome demonstrator implementation), the PETRA journey planner will replace the current dynamic trip planner of Muoversi a Roma. This means that the PETRA journey planner will go on line as the official service of Rome Mobility Agency. The integration between the old platform and the new solution has been done during the past year by IBM in cooperation with Mobility Control Center of Rome. We restructured all internal processes and we are almost ready to switch to the new system.
– Venice: t.b.c.
– Haifa: on-site survey with potential users- Travelers (interviewees) provided their origin, transport modes used, expected time for returning journey, basic preferences and basic socio-demographic information. Using a tablet, the surveyor input this data into an application designed to transfer the data into the PETRA system. PETRA, based on its algorithms and relevant information from Haifa’s open data platform, will then produce alternative routes for the two-way journey (home-entertainment area-home), estimated travel time for each of them and the associated level of reliability.
These alternatives routes were presented to the interviewee, who in turn stated which alternative would have been the selected one if this information would have been available to them before starting the journey.
Open data policy:
Continuity: The final project package was delivered to the EU in January 2017.
Miscellaneous: