Success Final Review of URBANITE Project
We set out the global goal of the project.
September 2023
July 2023
Urbanite: Recommendations for Decision-makers Using Disruptive Technologies
Municipal policymakers need to make educated decisions to shape the future of mobility in cities; there is a persistent assumption that these decisions can be facilitated by a data-driven platform.
June 2023
A data-based decision-making
The decision-making process in the policy-making should rely on data-driven evidence, in most of the cases, the raw data needs to be processed to transform it into actionable infor
Custom dashboards – A practical example
Among its functionalities, The URBANITE Platform allows its users to build and share custom dashboard.
URBANITE Final event at the OASC Annual Summit & General Assembly 2023
Save the date: the final event of the URBANITE project will take place at the OASC- Open & Agile Smart Cities Annual Summit & General Assembly, next 14th June in Brussels, Belgium.
URBANITE participates on the workshop “Participatory data for innovation” on the Data Week 2023.
The IMPETUS has invited several projects working on a variety of topics including sustainability, pollution, health, inclusion and diversity.
Decision-making methods
The decision-making process is essential when it comes to addressing any decision, it aims to solve problems and give a set of options or alternatives, which represent some actions
April 2023
Summary of the SoPoLabs
During the project different policy co-creation sessions took place: the first SoPoLab (Social Policy Lab) session, entitled “Ask: defining challenges and formulating shared values and principles”,
Awareness Raising Activities for sustainable mobility
On March 16, 2023, the fourth (and last) SoPoLab (Social Policy Lab) event was held in the Sala Giunta of the Municipality of Messina, organized as part of the EU-2020 URBANITE project by the Munic
March 2023
URBANITE participates on the XXIII Spanish ITS Congress / V Iberoamerican (LATAM) ITS Congress
The ITS Congress, organized by ITS Spain and ITS Iberoamerica and chaired by the Consejería de Fomento de la JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA, will be held in FIBES (Seville) on March 28, 29 and 30, 2023 under t
Data handling and transformation in Urbanite
In previous blog posts the overall architecture of the Urbanite platform [^1] and the harvesting process [^2] were described.
December 2022
2022 General Assemblies
During 2022, 4 General Assemblies were held, the first on a virtual/on-line format, the rest F2F.
9th General Assembly, putting the platform on the table
The 9th General Assembly was held in Amsterdam, hosted by Gemeente Amsterdam and WAAG.
November 2022
8th General Assembly in Messina
The 8th General Assembly was held in Messina, hosted by the Municipality and AlmaDigit.
Co-creation activities in Messina towards shared urban mobility solutions
The activities related to co-creation in URBANITE project are mainly performed through what we call SoPoLabs (Social Policy Labs) which see the involvement of the
Simulations can provide robust support for more sustainable traffic planning
Photo source: Sasa Tkalcan
October 2022
Measuring the Confidence of Forecasting Models
Despite the fact that AI technologies are mature enough, their adoption by policy makers and public servants is very uneven, and in general, much lower than one would expect.
European Week of Regions and Cities
The European Week of Regions and Cities, organised by the European Commission and the European Committee of the Regions, is the biggest annual event dedicated to cohesion policy.
September 2022
SoPoLab First Session: Ask: defining challenges and formulating shared values and principles
This process of co-creation sessions through the Social Policy Lab in URBANITE helps us to identify social challenges associated with the use of disruptive technologies in the provision of services
August 2022
A step towards a Social Policy for Amsterdam cycling datacommons
As Urbanite is entering its final phase, the Municipality of Amsterdam and Waag organised the third and final Amsterdam Social Policy Lab (SoPoLab).
May 2022
URBANITE participates on the online workshop at DataWeek 2022
Disruptive technologies empowering decision-making in the public sector, sharing our results adopting a data-driven approach , 25th May at 15:30.
March 2022
An Overview of Transport Modelling Approaches – A Use Case Study of Helsinki
Transport planning plays a major role in defining the way public resources such as funds and spaces are used. This is also the case in Helsinki, Finland.
February 2022
Exploring the potential of mobility data commons in Amsterdam
The Chief Technology Office (CTO) of the Municipality of Amsterdam and Waag are exploring innovative ways of collaborating with businesses and societal organisations on data collection and sharing
The URBANITE integrated architecture
The URBANITE integrated architecture presents a theoretical vision of the URBANITE system covering all the functional and non-functional initial requirements set by the technical work-packages.
January 2022
Applicable European Regulations for Data-driven Policy-making
A data-driven policy-making aims to make optimal use of data and collaborate with citizens to co-create urban policies and, in general, to conduct a more reliable decision-making process.
URBANITE: Messina Use Case in Smart Mobility Scenario
The urban transformation, and the changes that the world is undergoing, lead, today more than ever, to the need to make faster and more timely choices in the field of mobility management.
December 2021
URBANITE GENERAL ASSEMBLIES
During 2021, 4 General Virtual Assemblies were held. Due to COVID-19, the meeting was held online using Teams.
How disruptive technologies can strengthen urban mobility transformation, the experience of URBANITE
Today’s cities are facing a revolutionary era in urban mobility and decision-makers have to face more and more complex challenges when managing and planning mobility.
Harvesting of Data in URBANITE
The significance and heterogeneous nature of the data sources encountered in URBANITE has been outlined in a previous blog post
August 2021
URBANITE Workshop 2021, 8 October 2021, Slovenia
URBANITE Workshop 2021
June 2021
Simulation scenarios for cities
Creating simulation scenarios for the four cities included in the URBANITE project, those being Bilbao, Amsterdam, Helsinki and Messina, is a part of the activities performed by the URBANITE team.
Virtual Device Model extending NGSI-LD for FaaS at the Edge
Giovanni Parrino, Francesco Martella, Giuseppe Ciulla, Roberto Di Bernardo,
May 2021
URBANITE’s SoPoLabs - Collective creativity and participation producing social value
The scope of URBANITE SoPoLab, which stands for Social Policiy Lab, is
Co-creating a bicycle city
In the search for more sustainable and environmentally friendly urban life and mobility,
March 2021
General challenges in mobility management for Bilbao Use Case.
In the last 25 years Bilbao has suffered an important urban transformation from an industrial economy with heavy industry and harbour facilities to a city based on a service economy.
Better mobility together
Mobility policy needs to include citizens - after all, we are all experts on the way we move about in our daily lives.
February 2021
Data Sources for urban mobility in URBANITE project
The Urbanite project will provide technical support to decision-makers in the domain of urban mobility. This support takes the form of predictive models constructed by specialized AI algorithms.
January 2021
Enabling mobility planners in using the city’s traffic and mobility data: Case Helsinki, Finland
Due to digitalization, there is a growing number of traffic and mobility data available for the cities to use world-wide. It is usually in the interest of cities to take control over this data.
December 2020
Shape the future of urban mobility through the effective adoption of disruptive technologies
European cities and urban environments are facing a revolution in urban mobility mainly related to the wide increase of population in
STRATEGIES AND ALGORITHMS FOR DATA MODELLING AND VISUALIZATIONS
In the context of URBANITE, we are currently performing a survey of existing methods for data modelling and visualizations that could apply to the urban mobility planning domain.
November 2020
How the city of messina is dealing with the digital transformation of urban service
As reported in “eGovernment Benchmark 2016. A turning point for eGovernment development in Europe?”,
October 2020
Some insights on the acceptation of disruptive technologies by mobility policy-makers
Urban mobility faces more significant long-term uncertainty and complexity generated by two main factors: the demand for growth in urban environments, the pressure