As announced in our previous Newsletter, UNIZA and the Consortium it leads, have been granted funding to implement the MoTiV (Mobility and Time Value) project for the next 30 months, until April 2020. MoTiV is currently the only H2020 Research and Innovation Action project coordinated by a Higher Education Institution in Slovakia, and acquired by an ERA Chair project (ERAdiate).
MoTiV officially started on 1 November 2017. It has the ambitious objective to introduce a new definition and methodology for the estimation of the Value of Travel Time (VTT), and to validate this new conceptual framework by collecting and evaluating data in at least 10 EU countries through a mobile application to be developed by the Consortium. The project addresses the emerging topic of exploring the dynamics of individual preferences, behaviours and lifestyles that influence travel and mobility choices.
The MoTiV kick-off meeting, hosted by UNIZA on the premises of the University Science Park on 14-15 November 2017, and chaired by Project Manager Giuseppe Lugano, gathered 21 participants, representing the seven Consortium members. JUDr. Viera Petrášová, national contact point at the Slovak Center for Scientific and Technical Information (CVTI SR), attended the first day to represent the European Commission Project Officer Andrea Arcelli. Prof. Ing. Ján Čelko, CSc., Vice-Rector for Science and Research, and Prof. Tatiana Kováčiková, PhD., ERA Chair Holder for Intelligent Transport Systems, welcomed the participants on behalf of UNIZA and ERAdiate respectively.
The first day was dedicated to the project objectives, activities, outputs, management and general structure of the work packages, to ensure a common understanding of the project as a whole. Throughout the second day, the participants considered the strategies, action plan and discussed in small groups specific topics related to the project implementation, namely the MoTiV conceptual framework, the application development and the European-wide data collection campaigns.
The start of the project is particularly intense, with the preparation of 10 deliverables that are due by May (five of which by the end of February). The Consortium organised the first Expert workshop on “Trends and hypotheses on the value of travel time“, hosted by TIS on January 18th, 2018, near Lisbon in Portugal.
For further information, please visit the project website (temporarily hosted by ERAdiate) or contact Project Manager Giuseppe Lugano.
