COHESIVE Final Event, Toulouse

On 17^th January 2023 the COHESIVE Final Event was held, at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Toulouse. Partners and guests from across Europe joined both in-person and online, and it was a great opportunity to publicly share the culmination of years of work on the project. We were joined by Patrick Vial (Tisséo Collectivités), who spoke about plans for improving transport infrastructure in the wider Toulouse metropolitan area, as well as Gorazd Marinic (IP4 Programme Manager), who provided a forward view of the ERJU and how outputs from Shift2Rail IP4 will be carried across into a new wave of projects starting in 2023. The presentations delivered by the partners covered the various phases of the Traveller Companion, from Alpha Release through to Final Release, as well as the research into use cases and passenger mobility needs, and the collaboration with the Open Call projects which have been conducting a series of pilots and demonstrations across Europe. The Final Event for CONNECTIVE, ExtenSive and IP4MaaS will be taking place in Barcelona in early June, and more details on this will be provided soon.

IRP Workshop, October 2022 (online)

On 13^th October, IP4 partners attended and presented at the online IRP Workshop on integrated ticketing and air-rail co-operation. Results of the IP4 programme pilots and demonstrations were presented by Marco Ferreira (Thales Portugal), as well as the wider technical achievements from COHESIVE and its partner projects in IP4 (ExtenSive and CONNECTIVE). Marcus De Paz and Khaled Mansour (Alstom) also presented the state of play of IP4’s route to market and exploitation, highlighting the phased expansion predicted for IP4 technologies as it builds from the ‘City Ecosystems’ that have been tested so far in pilots and demonstrations.

InnoTrans 2022, Berlin

Between 20th and 23rd September, several members from the IP4 partnership joined tens of thousands of international transport professionals at InnoTrans in Berlin, successfully conducting the Integrated Technical Demonstrator for COHESIVE’s Final Release functionalities featured on the Travel Companion app and the Operator Portal. This demonstrator used scenarios in Berlin with VBB, and in Athens with multimodal options including OASA, Attiko, Brainbox, Taxiway andRide2Rail. These demonstrations showcased the possibilities enabled by the Final Release, with full functionality demonstrated in the end-to-end journey selection, including booking and payment of tickets as part of the ‘one-stop shop’ – a key functionality of the Travel Companion.

3rd Innovation Days - IP4 State of Play (online)

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On 8^th November, the COHESIVE project was presented during the 3^rd Innovation Days. Marco Ferreira (Thales Portugal) and Souheir Mili (CS Group) presented on the key functionalities that have been developed by IP4, including the Final Release functionalities of the Travel Companion and the Operator Portal. In addition, Khaled Mansour (Alstom) presented the state of play regarding route to market for IP4 technologies and the exploitation plan. This online event was recorded and can be found at the link below. 

5th Advisory Board Summit (online)

On 30^th November, the 5^thAdvisory Board Summit was held online, a forum set up to ensure impartial and objective expert feedback is received during the IP4 lifecycle. Anna Perras (HACON) provided an overview of the IP4 Ecosystem implementation, and Marie Masserey (IATA) presented insights from the world of aviation with a talk on the evolution of passenger air transport standards, identifying areas for collaboration between IATA and UIC. The 6^th AB Summit will be held in May 2023 and is planned to be an in-person event, with the location to be confirmed.  

Transport Research Arena 2022, Lisbon

Between 14^th and 17^thNovember, several members from the IP4 partnership attended the Transport Research Arena (TRA) held in Lisbon, demonstrating COHESIVE’s Final Release functionalities featured on the Travel Companion app and the Operator Portal. The Travel Companion was presented on a large interactive screen, showcasing the results of several European pilots. Further demonstrations of the Travel Companion were also offered following the ExtenSive Mid Term Event, and Marco Ferreira (Thales Portugal) presented the tools developed by IP4 at the UITP stand, and data sharing as an enabler for multimodality at a special invitational session.

The pilots showcased included those in Berlin with VBB, and Athens with OASA, Attiko, Brainbox (bike-sharing), Taxiway and Ride2Rail (ride-sharing), Helsinki and Brno. These results demonstrate the full end-to-end proposition of the Travel Companion, from journey selection to ticket purchase.

Travel Companion presented at CED 2022, Lyon

IP4 Paper presented at WCRR

Shift2Rail Innovation Days 2021

COHESIVE participated on the Shift2Rail InnovationDays 2021, one more time in an online format promoting the last advances on theIP4 ecosystem focused on the new functionalities delivered on the Beta release with the demonstration of new scenarios and the preparation of new pilots.

This session can be revisited here:

https://vimeo.com/657480104/f5ab780a11

COHESIVE Beta Release

In June 2021, the COHESIVE project had finished one of its main integrations introducing all MaaSive project results on the IP4 ecosystem.

In collaboration with MaaSive andShift2MaaS project it was done an online event to present the project results and also to present the results of Beta release focusing on the new functionalities of this release. Some demonstrations were realized creating Mobility packages and providing it to the travellers, using Mixed reality to provide location-based experiences, using multi-user capabilities for travelling in group, a new Travel companion for Kids and others.

Collaboration with Ride2Rail and IP4MaaS

COHESIVE, Ride2Rail and IP4MaaS projects have join strengths to deliver the best pilots with the technology integrated by COHESIVE project. This combined collaboration has started and very close collaboration will be done within IP4 projects to guarantee the execution of successful pilots on new sites in 2022 and 2023. The sites planned for the new pilots are spread around Europe: Athens, Padua, Helsinki, Brno, Barcelona, Liberec, Warsaw and Osijek.

COHESIVE-Shift2MaaS Pilot running in Central-East Corridor

From the 19 April 2021 to the 30 of April2021, the Shift2MaaS project realized its pilot in Central-East Corridor, testing the Shift2Rail Travel Companion app provided by COHESIVE with real passengers. Over two weeks, participants will test the app in Brno (Czech Republic) and Frankfurt (Germany). The pilot is the last in a series ofShift2MaaS pilots taking place across Europe testing the Travel Companion app.

The pilot started with an online event for users where participants tested cross-border travel between Brno (CzechRepublic) and Austria and Slovakia, and in Frankfurt (Germany).

During the pilot, participants use the Travel Companion app during their journey, testing functionalities such as the journey planner, offer building (showing the price for a trip), ticketing, and ticketing validation.

COHESIVE-Shift2MaaS Pilot running in Málaga

By the end of February 2021 Shift2MaaS launched his second pilot. This pilot, also dedicated to the traveller, have been focused on the urban mobility with the support of shared-bikes, but it also focused on a national journey scenario connecting Malaga and Madrid.

COHESIVE-Shift2MaaS Pilot running in Lisbon

In January 2021 Shift2MaaS launched his first pilot dedicated for the traveller. The first pilot of this project will be held in Lisbon, testing IP4 technologies provided by COHESIVE in real life.In the pilot, passengers tested the ‘Travel Companion app’ during different journey scenarios using multimodal trips in Lisbon. The pilot tested functionalities such as the journey planner, trip tracking, and ticket purchasing and cancellation. Entertainment features of the app, such as a quiz about the area, have also been tried out. Furthermore, in Lisbon, pilot participants tested the so-called ‘Mobility Packages’: a MaaS subscription that includes for example a monthly ticket to all modes of public transport.

COHESIVE Mid-Term Event - Shift2Rail Innovation Days 2020

Due to the pandemic, during the past months a series of events have been cancelled.

So, in October 2020, COHESIVE together with Shift2Rail JU prepared sessions for the European railway community to see how far IP4 innovations have come.

COHESIVE took this opportunity to realize his Mid-Term event, focusing on topics like the IP4 ecosystem architecture, integration release planning, user needs and profiles, route-to-market and collaboration with Shift2MaaS for pilot realization.

This session can be seen on the following link:

https://youtu.be/8NPW-50Q1e0?t=4560

COHESIVE-Shift2MaaS pilot for Transport Service Providers

Shift2MaaS started his pilot phases in July2020. Two services provided by the COHESIVE project were tested by the TransportService Providers (TSP) partners of Shift2MaaS. The Asset Manager, a placewhere the TSPs can manage all their assets (e.g., timetables, differentdatasets), and the Contractual Management Market Place (CMMP): a tool thathelps TSPs to manage agreements among them for the development of mobilitysubscription packages.

The TSPs pilots already showed positiveresults. The Asset Manager was labeled as an easy-to-use one-stop-shop, with100% of participants saying they would like to have the tool developed in theircity. For the CCMP feedback received was also positive, with recommendationsfor improvement including more clarity around legal obligations and an improveduser interface.

COHESIVE in The Future of transportation World Conference

In December 2019 the COHESIVE projectpresent the session “Shift2Rail as an enabler for Mobility as a Service throughinnovation” in the The Future of transportation World Conference.

It was tackling Mobility and the undergoingsignificant transformations but also facing challenges. Hyperconnectivity ischanging the way people address mobility and the paradigm of seamless travel.Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is an emerging concept that considers the mobilitysystem as a whole, improving its efficiency and sustainability, and benefitingoperators and travelers. The session focused on the active position taken byShift2Rail; proposing and demonstrating a technological enabler addressingMaaS; aiming to provide tools and guidelines to ease the entry of transportoperators into fully multimodal ecosystems; supporting efficient, seamless andpleasant travel experiences for passengers; and strongly contributing to areduction in the impact of transport on the environment.

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