Olympus

Electric vehicles sharing services based on a B2B service platform

The Olympus test bed is a meeting place for different stakeholders that are active within the field of sustainable mobility. Information and knowledge in relation to mobility behaviour, green technology and smart power grids is exchanged with the purpose to promote and improve technologies and develop innovative business models.

Already today, a significant number of mobility patterns exist that are no longer limited to the use of a single transport mode (car, train, tram, bus, etc.). Mobility is evolving towards a networked structure where different modes are interconnected in a seamless way. As provider of mobility solutions, the NMBS-Holding wishes to be the engine behind this networked mobility and leads the current project. An important point of action within this structure is the integration of electric vehicles.

Under impulse of the Flemish government, the different partners within this project invest in electric cars, electric bikes and electric scooters as well as a network of charging infrastructure in four cities: Ghent, Hasselt, Leuven and Antwerp. In addition to this, 34 train stations through Belgium will be equipped with charging infrastructure for electric vehicles.

Transport & Mobility Leuven is responsible for the development of the user behaviour model. The model aims to identify and to quantify the parameters that determine the mobility related choices of the users in function of the various available mobility modes. This model makes it possible to analyse the mobility behaviour of different user groups. This analysis is an important step towards the optimization of various aspects linked to the supply side of the mobility system.

Project website: http://www.proeftuin-olympus.be/

reports

No report available yet

period

2012-2015

funded by

Flemish Government, Ministry of innovation/IWT

partners

NMBS-Holding, Infrabel, cities (Antwerpen, Gent, Hasselt and Leuven), Cambio, Blue-mobility, Green city tours, Recticel, Syntigo, VIM, Ugent, IBBT, K.U.Leuven, VUB, KHLim

researchers

Lars Akkermans, Sven Maerivoet, Kris Vanherle

contact

Lars Akkermans

+32 16 31.77.34