UPPER at the ITS Dubai دبيّ
An UPPER delegation will speak at the 30th ITS World Congress in Dubai, the leading event in smart mobility & digitalisation of transport.
Organised by ERTICO and hosted by RTA, this Congress unites professionals from mobility, technology, and policy sectors to discuss and showcase advancements in smart mobility. With up to 20,000 attendees, 170 sessions, 650 international speakers, and over 300 exhibitors, the event includes plenary sessions, technical sessions, exhibitions, and demonstrations. A must-attend catwalk to show UPPER's latest development and to explore sustainable mobility, innovative technologies, and Dubai’s commitment to smart city initiatives.
Project partners Factual Josep Laborda and PTV Daniele Tiddi will be representing UPPER respectively on Sept 16 at the session The role and impact of micro subsidies in technology-enabled mobility and on Sept 17 at the session Cloud-based Digital Twin for Public Transport Operational Decision Support
Daniele will present the UPPER tool U-SIM, a comprehensive, flexible software system for transportation planning, travel demand modelling and network data management. Designed for multimodal analysis, U-SIM.plan integrates all relevant modes of transportation (trains, trams, buses, pedestrians, bicyclists, cars and trucks) into one consistent network model. It makes it the standard for macroscopic simulations and modelling of transport networks and transport demand, public transport planning, and for developing transport strategies and solutions, providing insights for long-term strategic planning and short-term operational use. U-SIM.plan is based on PTV Visum.
Find out more about the UPPER U-TOOLS here
Josep will explore Factual’s latest report, 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 focused on how microsubsidies (aka microincentives), including innovations like tokenizing and gamifying greener mobility choices can influence traveller behaviour towards sustainable mobility and how subsidies to sustainable mobility can be improved using microincentives and what strategies exist to do so, including, of course, the experience of the UPPER sites followed in T5.2. The study suggests that current subsidies, while effective in providing access to mobility, are not efficient. One way to improve this situation is through microincentives, narrowly defined incentives, down to the characteristics of a single trip, such as transport modes, times, or user categories. The underlying idea behind microincentives is simple and not new, as it replicates the concept of price discrimination widely used in mainstream economics, but in this case, applied to subsidies in public transport.
Full program here
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