Innovation for sustainable everyday traveling

Innovation for sustainable everyday traveling is a four-year project aiming at developing practical and theoretical knowledge about how digital information infrastructure and associated services can contribute to the expansion of the share of public transport of the total passenger transport system.

Description

Innovation for sustainable everyday traveling is a four-year project aiming at developing practical and theoretical knowledge about how digital information infrastructure and associated services can contribute to the expansion of the share of public transport of the total passenger transport system. The aim is to be realized through design-oriented action research in which researchers, providers of traffic information, person transport providers and IT suppliers co-creates an open and user-driven development of the future traveler information in the interaction with everyday travelers. The project has a unique mix of key stakeholders from the society, relevant industry players and leading researchers.

Associated social-,and business players are in the same as well as different parts of the development trail for personal travel both as both collaborative and competing parties. They demand knowledge on how customer-driven open innovation can contribute to the development of more effective and flexible public transport system.

The overall ambition is that the project will contribute to the development of a digital intelligent public transport systems in the Swedish region Västra Götaland that is not only a model for Sweden but for the rest of the world.

Project manager

Lindgren, Rikard

Research supervisor

Lindgren, Rikard

Subjects

Informatics

Research areas

Business and IT

Researchers

Christensson, Oskar
Ekström, Karin M
Lindgren, Rikard
Resmini, Andrea
Rudmark, Daniel

Financiers

University of Borås

Start date

2010-01-01

End date

2013-12-31