MODUM

Models for Optimizing Dynamic Urban Mobility

Transport & Mobility Leuven is leading the FP7 project MODUM. The consortium will develop a new approach for pro-active demand-responsive management of traffic to enable energy-efficient multi-modal transport choices accommodating dynamic variations, minimising the environmental impact and improving the quality of life in urban environments. MODUM will focus on commuters, in combinations of both private and public transport, facing dynamic conditions such as unexpected disturbances typical of urban environments.

In particular, MODUM focuses on the comparison and then the potential synthesis of two approaches: 1) a traffic flow self-organising mechanism based on ant-like agent technology and 2) a “reverse” route planning based on software agent technology; using real-time data and declared destinations.

A synthesis of the two approaches will then be developed by the academic partners.

Software implementation of the synthesised approach will then be done in the traffic centers of Nottingham (UK) and Sofia (BG) including real-life experiments. Such experiments will include historical data and simulations in combination with real-time data feeds from existing infrastructure and vehicles going through a section of a city in a number of congestion profiles. Analogous experiments will include people moving in a city by different means of transport.

Project website: www.modum-project.eu

reports

No report available yet

period

2011-2014

funded by

European Commission, DG Information Society and Media

partners

The Nottingham Trent University (UK), The University of Manchester (UK), K.U.Leuven, Technolution (NL), FGM AMOR (AT), Nottingham City Council (UK), Mikroprocesorni Ustroistva i Sistemi za Transporta (BG), Tsentar za Gradska Mobilnost Eood (BG)

researchers

Griet De Ceuster

contact

Griet De Ceuster

+32 16 31.77.30