Expert Survey on Integrated and Seamless Shared Urban Mobility Business and Operation

Horizon Europe Project - CL5-2022-D6-02-04 - Accelerating the deployment of new and shared mobility services for the next decade

The growth of the urban population presents significant urban mobility challenges for sustainable city development. Addressing air pollution, energy consumption, congestion, and accessibility becomes crucial, especially to counteract the rise of private vehicle use and achieve the goal of decarbonization in Europe by 2050. The COVID-19 and recent energy crises underscore the urgent need for a shift towards an energy-efficient public and shared mobility ecosystem. However, actualizing these shifts and bringing them into market reality poses complex challenges in practice. The European project SUM focuses on enhancing shared mobility competitiveness and increasing their modal share by developing technological, co-creation, and policy tools and solutions to overcome barriers for car-focused families.

A fundamental element of this project is the creation of business structures that enhance the viability of integrated seamless urban shared mobility solutions. Our goal is to delve into business operations and related practices that are not only cost-effective and integrated with existing or planned infrastructure and fleets but are also adaptable to local circumstances and compliant with the relevant operational and legal frameworks in each living lab. This includes the examination of a variety of business models for deploying New and Shared Modes (NSM) of services. Hereby our objective is to engage a diverse group of stakeholders, actors, and experts to assess the challenges and barriers faced in this domain. Crucially, we aim to explore how various elements within these business structures can serve as pivotal decision support in our ongoing analysis of business viability. The insights gathered from this survey will be complementary in shaping our approach to the design and implementation of a broad spectrum of mobility services, both within the SUM project and in future endeavors. Accordingly, an open data platform will be created in order to ensure that all results of this project will be accessible. For more information please refer to https://sum-project.eu/

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In accordance with Article 13 of the Regulation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR), please find below some information concerning this data collection: 

Institute VEDECOM is committed to protecting personal data in accordance with the GDPR. Institute VEDECOM uses this Expert Survey in order to explore how various elements within seamless shared urban mobility business structures can serve as pivotal decision support in our ongoing analysis of business viability in the project SUM on the legal basis of consent. The recipients of this data are Institute VEDECOM's specific personnel contributing to the project SUM. This data will be kept during the project period until the end of May 2026 and will not be transferred outside the European Union. This data collection is voluntary and does not involve automated decision-making. You can request to access your data, request their deletion, and exercise your rights of opposition, rectification, and limitation of data processing. To exercise these rights or for any questions, you can contact the DPO via privacy@vedecom.fr. However, if you believe that your rights are not respected or that the processing of your data is not compliant, you can submit a complaint to the CNIL.