Webinar series “Moving Around Europe Seamlessly!”

A Shift2Rail webinar series entitled “Moving Around Europe Seamlessly!” were held on May 2020 presenting and discussing mobility topics and seamless door-to-door traveltools under development. Two exciting webinars demonstrated the current results of key projects working under Shift2Rail’s Innovation Programme 4 (IP4), dedicated to digital services facilitating mobility as a service in rail. The first session, held on 12^th May explored Shift2Rail innovations from the travellers’ perspective, and the second one, held on 14^thMay looked at Shift2Rail innovations from a transport service providers’perspective. Both of them presented topics with their point of view and its relevance for the IP4 ecosystem development. These innovative results were showcasedby the following Shift2Rail projects: COHESIVE, CONNECTIVE, MaaSive, Shift2Maas, My-TRAC and SPRINT.

Those can be reviewed in Youtube:

Travellers’perspective - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuTT3FxgDMY

 Transport service providers’ perspective - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SpLT7aL4N0

Malaga Workshop

The IP4 Workshop and Meeting has occurred from 27^th to 28^th November 2019 in Malaga. The event included a COHESIVE Alpha release presentation and demonstration of available functionalities (also containing results from IT2Rail/Co-Active/ATTRACkTIVE/CONNECTIVE projects), and a presentation ofMaaSive/CONNECTIVE planned technologies for 2020. Furthermore, a presentation of SPRINT and My-TRAC projects and demonstration of available functionalities was held, plus presentation of starting project Ride2Rail. Additionally, Shift2MaaSproject presented its scope for the  demonstrationsplanned in three locations: Lisbon, Malaga and Central-East corridor (Austria,Germany, Czech Republic). This workshop was a great way to share knowledge and define collaborations between projects, where It was also defined a  dissemination strategy and event coordination for TRA2020 and InnoTrans2020.

Alpha Release Demonstration

The COHESIVE Project Alpha release demonstration was held in Brussels on 5th November 2019. The event was planned in collaboration with projects ATTRACkTIVE and Co-Active final events. The aim of the session was to demonstrate that all IP4 concepts and building blocks developed by the different CFM projects are integrated and working in a coherent ecosystem that could provide to the travellers a seamless journey experience across Europe. The COHESIVE Alpha Release demonstration was thus the first step in a line of demonstrations that took the results of ATTRACkTIVE, Co-Active and the first outcomes of CONNECTIVE into consideration. It could be shown that all systems were integrated with success allowing to perform the demonstration in two different corridors (“Berlin > Amsterdam” and “Barcelona > Madrid”).

MaaSive, COHESIVE, CONNECTIVE, ATTTRACkTIVE, Co-Active TMT meetings

From Monday the 23rd to Thursday the 26th of September, representatives of project partners met at HaCon premises in Hanover, Germany, for a TMT meeting week. The current status of CONNECTIVE, MaaSive and COHESIVE were presented, open points discussed and the next steps planned. As ATTRACkTIVE and Co-Active have officially ended, the final event and review were planned. The get-together ended after several productive days filled with fruitful discussions and exciting outlooks as to what will be developed during the scope of the respective projects.

Integration meeting between COHESIVE and My-TRAC

On July 23rd and 24th COHESIVE and My-TRAC partners met at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia for an integration meeting. During the fruitful gathering, the work conducted in both projects was presented and compared. The strategies were also elaborated to link the project results and are to be incorporated in the near future as both projects aim to develop user friendly personal applications to enhance Europe-wide travel experiences. 

Co-Active, ATTRACkTIVE, CONNECTIVE, COHESIVE TMT and steering committee meetings

The TMT meetings for Co-Active on May 13^th and ATTRACkTIVE, CONNECTIVE and COHESIVE on May 14^th took place at Thales Portugal premises is Lisbon. Work done in all TDs was presented and discussed, and next steps were agreed on. Special attention was paid to the final steps for Co-Active and ATTRACkTIVE, which currently are in their end phase. The steering committee meeting on May 17^th rounded off the TMT meetings.

COHESIVE/Shift2MaaS collaboration workshop on 16th May 2019