Project PHOEBE will seek to build on the strengths of both iRAP’s road safety assessment tools and AIMSUN’s simulation and Artificial Intelligence for future mobility tools to deliver harmonised, integrated and world-leading safety prediction tools that take account of gender, age and ability levels in providing for future mobility.
The Predictive Approaches for Safer Urban Environment consortium (known as Project PHOEBE) is one of the approved projects for the Horizon 2022 grant funded by the European Union. The 45-month long project, involving 11 sector-leading partners, has kicked off this week and brings together the inter-disciplinary power of traffic simulation, road safety assessment, human behaviour, mode shift and induced demand modelling and new and emerging mobility data into a harmonised, prospective assessment framework for road safety.
The project aims to develop an integrated, dynamic and scalable human-centred predictive safety assessment framework for all road user types in urban areas.
PHOEBE fornecerá as especificações técnicas e fluxos de otimização de dados para formuladores de políticas, planejadores de transporte e analistas de tráfego, incorporando decisivamente a segurança viária como um indicador de desempenho na modelagem de tráfego que se conecta às Metas Globais da ONU. Isso permitirá prever o risco da introdução de novos modos de transporte, mudanças tecnológicas e regulatórias nos sistemas de transporte em um ambiente de simulação virtual onde é urgente considerar as demandas dos usuários vulneráveis de vias.
New modes of transport and shifts in consumer patterns are directly influencing road trauma levels and the subsequent ability of European cities and towns to ensure the EU target for a 50 per cent reduction in serious injuries and fatalities in road crashes by 2030 is met.
Ambitious action is needed to ultimately approach zero road deaths and serious injuries by 2050. There is a specific need for new approaches that account for the dynamic and rapidly changing nature of urban traffic environments, and their impact on safety for all types of road users, gender, age and mobility levels.
City administrations and transport system managers will benefit from predictive tools to be developed under Project PHOEBE that allow these changes and their implications for road safety, mobility and transport to be anticipated and planned for, and support the associated policy, regulatory and consumer-focused response. Simple and effective visualisation and socioeconomic modelling will provide the confidence for policy decisions and investment to ensure the United Nations, European Union, national and local road safety, and sustainable transport targets are achieved.
To demonstrate the potential of enhanced virtual modelling, PHOEBE will draw on new sources of data. With the recent advancements in technology and data collection tools, high quality and rapidly collected data sources are increasingly becoming available across urban transport systems.
O consórcio reúne uma equipe única e diversificada com histórico comprovado na entrega de projetos e soluções altamente inovadoras e baseadas em evidências da Comissão Europeia. Ao conectar os modelos e métodos de iRAP e Aimsun, e ao utilizar as redes de stakeholders de POLIS e EuroRAP/EIRA, as habilidades em tecnologia e big data de The Floow, Factual Consulting e OSeven, e as habilidades em comportamento humano, mudança modal e análise de políticas e socioeconômicas dos parceiros universitários (NTU Atenas, TU Delft, TU Munique e UP Valência), o consórcio está confiante de que a PHOEBE entregará os resultados esperados e apoiará “sistemas de mobilidade seguros, contínuos, inteligentes, inclusivos, resilientes e sustentáveis para pessoas e mercadorias” e salvará vidas.
O projeto PHOEBE é financiado pelo Horizonte Europa, sob o acordo de subvenção nº 101076963. Os participantes do Reino Unido são apoiados pelos números de subvenção do UKRI 10038897 (iRAP) e 10056912 (The Floow).
The Project PHOEBE kick off meeting was held on 6-7 December in Brussels
