U-high-3: Carefree urban travel
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Making public transport more attractive will significantly improve the quality of life in urban areas. Two thirds of journeys made in cities are for leisure activities, shopping and private errands. This often involves carrying shopping or luggage, which can be inconvenient when using public transport. In addition, you cannot be sure that seats are available and that the desired connections will be reached when changing trains.
This is why this project, coordinated by the Human-Machine Systems Technology department, is designing an assistance system that supports users along their travel chain as required. In addition to intermodal journey planning, it offers an innovative inner-city delivery service that covers the entire supply chain with baggage drop-off, transportation and delivery. Together with inner-city transport service providers, we are evaluating how the occupancy status of public transport can be recorded and made available in real time so that we can react flexibly to this in our travel planning in future. In addition, a concept for ensuring connections is being developed, implemented and tested. Customers will be able to signal their connection request so that transport service providers can ensure the connection and provide reliable information.
The assistance system offers an integrated solution for the separate transportation of passengers and luggage, making it easier to shop without a car. By making public transport more attractive, pollution and noise levels in the city are reduced.
Cooperation partner
Department of Transport Planning and Transport Systems at the University of Kassel
Department of Public Law, IT Law and Environmental Law at the University of Kassel
INIT Innovative Informatikanwendungen in Transport-, Verkehrs- und Leitsystemen GmbH, Karlsruhe
IVU Traffic Technologies AG, Berlin
Kasseler Verkehrs-Gesellschaft AG, Kassel
Verkehrsverbund und Fördergesellschaft Nordhessen mbH, Kassel
City Kaufleute Kassel e. V., Kassel
ECE Projektmanagement GmbH & Co. KG, Kassel
Werbegemeinschaft Königs-Galerie, Kassel
MoWiN.net e. V., Kassel
Quartier Wilhelmsstraße e. V., Kassel
City of Kassel
Association of German Transport Companies, Cologne
Funding and duration
Federal Ministry of Education and Research, 12 / 2017 - 11 / 2018 and
6 /2019 - 11 / 2023