Urban transport interchanges play a key role as part of public transport networks, facilitating the links between public transportation modes. Time savings, urban integration, better use of waiting time and improvement of operational business models are some of the benefits that result from the development of efficient urban interchanges.
The City-HUB project on urban mobility is co-financed by the European Commission and aims at contributing to the design and operation of seamless, smart, clean and safe intermodal public transport systems, by bringing together leading experts of design and urban integration, transport operation and business, local and regional authorities and end-users organizations. Also, it will investigate how these interchanges should be designed in order to ensure that “vulnerable” target groups, i.e. the elderly, youth, physically and mentally handicapped people can adequately benefit from these interchanges.
The project consortium consists of top European research bodies, the Technical University of Madrid – Transport Research Centre (UPM/TRANSyT), acting as project coordinator, the Institute for Transport Sciences – Non profit Ltd. (KTI), the Institute of Transport Economics (TOI), the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) – Institute of Transport, Panteia/NEA, the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), the Institut français des sciences et technologies des transports, aménagement et réseau (IFSTTAR) and the Transport Research Centre of Czech Republic (CDV).
More information is available from www.cityhub-project.eu.
