Good Practice Category: Mobility

During the period of lockdown caused by the COVID19 emergency, the provincial Public Transport Agency looked for innovative solutions to meet the new organisational and resident/worker needs. One mode of transport that worked perfectly was the one called °call the bus°, a Demand Responsive Transport service.The end of the lockdown and the slow resumption of travel made it possible to rethink this mode of transport not only for work but also for tourism.This new initiative has been strongly encouraged by the mayors of the Valli del SOL Municipalities, the Development Agency GAL Genovese, the Beigua Geopark and financed through the European project Alpine Space Smart Villages.

The Vercors Regional Natural Park in collaboration with two intermunicipalities (Royans-Vercors and the Vercors massif) has set up a hitchhiking system organized in 2018-2019. This system makes it possible to pool the use of individual vehicles by encouraging users to practice hitchhiking in a friendly and secure manner. A network of users, passengers or drivers is created, via a site allowing free registration, signage is installed at strategic points of the territory.

That group of citizens handles an on demand transportation system in the Royans territory (France).

Experimented project carried out in the Recco Valleys by ATP Exercise and the Municipality of Recco called "Call the Bus". The purpose is to avoid rides with empty vehicles by offering a transport service on call on reservation. This system provides a service more suited to the needs of users, allowing at the same time a decrease in management costs and waste. Experimental project carried out on the Recco Valleys by ATP Exercise and Comune di Recco called "Chiama il Bus". The purpose is to avoid rides with empty vehicles by offering a call-by-reservation transport service. This system provides a service that is better suited to the needs of users, allowing a decrease in management costs and waste.

Prontubus is a transport on-demand project with the aim of integrate the existing suburban public transport system in the Modena Province territory. Thanks to reservation system (by app and by call center) the aim is to offer a higher number of routes for the inhabitants of rural areas with the purpose of increasing the modal shift towards public transport.

The main objective is the reduction of traffic in low-density areas by offering alternative means of transport such as bikes. Indeed, traffic is mainly responsible of greenhouse gases emissions. The aim of the project is to establish an easy hiring network of bike rental in order to make public transport more attractive. An other goal is offer a range of bikes, available round the clock, to support multimodal mobility.