HARMONY’s partners will produce scientific, technical and commercial papers throughout the project to promote results and solutions. They will be submitted to participate in major related congresses and events as well as to be published in international peer-reviewed journals. If you want to delve more into HARMONY innovations, you can freely read and download them here.
- September 2022 – paper published in the Transport Policy Journal ¨Mobility as a Service Inclusion Index (MaaSINI): Evaluation of inclusivity in MaaS systems and policy recommendations¨ which among others includes a comprehensive review of existing MaaS studies with respect to Vulnerable Social Groups’ (VSGs) needs.
- September 2022 – paper published in the Transport Reviews Journal: ¨A review on the factors influencing the adoption of new mobility technologies and services: autonomous vehicle, drone, micromobility and mobility as a service¨ whose objective is to conduct a systematic review of the new mobility technologies and services, especially on autonomous vehicles, drones, micromobility and Mobility as a Service (MaaS).
- September 2022 – paper presented at the ETC Conference: ¨Smartphone-Based Travel Survey in Turin: A New Data-Driven Approach to Assess Urban Mobility Pattern¨ gives an overview of the smartphone application and the data collection process as well as a summary of the outcome of the survey regarding the mobility patterns in the Turin metropolitan area.
- July 2022 – CITIES The International Journal Of Urban Policy and Planning. ¨Changing transport planning objectives during the Covid-19 lockdowns: Actions taken and lessons learned for enhancing sustainable urban mobility planning¨. This paper attempts to shed light on how the transport planning priorities changed during the Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020/2021, and how the planning phases of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) framework can be strengthened to support a more resilient emergency planning environment.
- September 2021 – IEEE Xplore. “A Software-Agnostic Agent-based Platform for Modelling Emerging Mobility Systems“ designs a new modular, software-agnostic and activity-based spatial and transport planning platform, i.e, the HARMONY Model Suite, that facilitates a novel integration of new and existing spatial and transport modelling tools. The paper focuses on describing the architecture of the platform and its passenger mobility simulation framework, which integrates -in an interoperable manner-activity-based models, mobility service management, and traffic simulation tools for evaluating new mobility system dynamics.
- July 2021 International Conference on Transportation Research. “Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Barriers and Opportunities from Public Authorities’ Perspective“ focus on how Covid-19 has affected transport planning priorities and policy making. The results of this study revealed that planning objectives were significantly different in the period after the Covid-19 outbreak compared to the period before that. Moreover, it was shown that most of the actions adopted to accommodate the prioritised planning objectives were already defined before Covid-19, indicating that the pandemic has acted as an accelerator of specific existing planning objectives.
- May 2021 – Transportation Research Record – Journal of the Transportation Research Board. “Simulation of the Impact of a Zero-Emission Zone on Freight Delivery Patterns in Rotterdam“ analyses the impacts of the implementation of heterogeneous transition scenarios for each logistic segment into the Tactical Freight Simulator from the HARMONY project.
- January 2021 – Transportation Research Board (TRB) 2021. “Application of the HARMONY tactical freight simulator for a case study for a zero-emission zone in Rotterdam“ analyses the impacts of the implementation of heterogeneous transition scenarios for each logistic segment into the Tactical Freight Simulator from the HARMONY project.
- January 2021 – Transportation Research Board (TRB) 2021. “Matching supply and demand in crowd shipping – a theoretical framework“ presents a theoretical-methodological framework that proposes an innovative collection of preference data to develop choice models that identify the need willingness of commuters to crowds. In parallel, it calculates the demand and proposes the development of a real-time matching simulator for the assignment of packets to crowdshippers and then to the network.
- January 2021 – Transportation Research Board (TRB) 2021. “Mode choice modelling with machine learning“ provides empirical evidence of the effect that dataset imbalance might have on prediction measures and proposes a sequential tour-based framework for addressing skewed travel diary data.
- January 2021 – Transportation Research Board (TRB) 2021. “Optimal multimodal and multicriteria path set computation for dynamic trip planning in mobility as a service system” demonstrates the computation of diverse optimal and realistic unimodal and multimodal trips in reasonable computation time, setting the ground for further exploration into practical large-scale implementations.
- September 2020 – European Transport Conference (ECT) 2020. “HARMONY model suite: an integrated spatial and multimodal transport planning tool to lead a sustainable transition to a new mobility era“ reports on the HARMONY project which envisages developing a new generation of harmonised spatial and multimodal transport planning tools.