Application of technology to special transport

Patent Description

Information system for optimizing the transport of people with reduced mobility in individual and collective public services. On-demand transport management.

Solution

Quality transport service for people with reduced mobility (PRM), which improves the current collective and individual on-demand transport network in small rural and/or urban areas, with low availability of public transport.

Technology

The ATTE Information System has been developed using open-source software and with the use of dockers that allow for faster deployment on new equipment and improve the modularity and scalability of the product. Objectives:

• Organizations managing transport services for PRMs can use the platform to improve control and service assignment.
• Organizations can reduce expenses associated with call centers.
• PRMs can self-manage through a direct communication channel that informs about vehicle availability.
• Operators of individualized public transport see an increase in shared taxi kilometers and a decrease in empty kilometers.
• Reduction of non-useful CO2 emissions, thanks to vehicle sharing.

Innovative Advantages

• Algorithm for sharing individual vehicles under complex constraints.
• Integration of an exploitation and analysis platform for assigned services.
• Interoperability with operators of individual and/or collective public transport.

Current Development Phase

Service to the Barcelona City Council within its Special Transport Service system managed by the Municipal Institute for People with Disabilities.

Applications and Target Market

• Transport systems for PRMs.
• On-demand transport systems for small municipalities that do not have a wide range of public transport services (collective or individual).