multimodal transportation

You are provided with a comprehensive mobility service, which includes the following: any required public means of transport & one electric car for the ride from your home to the train station. You also have the electric car at your disposal on the weekend and in your spare-time. You pay an all-inclusive mobility fee per month, which comprises the train ticket, the use of the electric car, and any further services. You make a considerable contribution to climate protection, without this being associated with additional costs.

The initiative addresses problems of energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions in public transportation, and opportunities created by smart grids for provision of new services. The initiative builds upon the development of a new mass transport corridor in Curitiba. Curitiba has a long history of sustainable urban development.

A number of Forum Virium Helsinki’s projects, such as the development of a traffic information platform have led to successful commercial deployments following extensive trials, whereas others aim to implement the strategic goal of Finland towards open data such as the Helsinki Region Infoshare project. The traffic information platform, for example, captures real-time data and informs citizens about traffic congestion, roadworks, accidents or elks spotted on the motorway.

Forum Virium Helsinki is an innovation unit within the Helsinki City organization. It develops new digital services in cooperation with companies, other City of Helsinki units and residents. Our objective is to build better city services, create new business opportunities as well as open up new contacts for international markets. Forum Virium Helsinki’s development projects drive the creation of digital city services. From the very start, ideas under development are tested as part of users’ everyday lives. Another goal is to create new business opportunities for companies.

The automated fare collection (AFC) system will be an integral part of the Budapest cityscape and also of customers’ everyday lives; therefore prior to naming the scheme, BKK conducted a questionnaire-based customer expectation survey in 2013 along with international benchmarking of best practice for branding similar systems throughout the world. The results show that mostly names of animals are preferred, such as oyster, octopus or hummingbird, but also precious stones, fruits and playful names are used.

The MOL Bubi bike-sharing scheme is a new public transport option in Budapest. The apple-green bikes can be hired from and returned to any docking station found at major transport hubs in the city centre. This new mode of public transport combines the freedom of individual mobility with the reliability of fixed-rail transport. So far 1,150 bikes can be hired from 99 docking stations in the centre of Budapest. Each station features a terminal, some of which are equipped with touch screens and bankcard-readers. Docking points serve the purpose of securely placing the bikes.

The renewed BKK FUTÁR application, called BudapestGO, uses the latest technological achievements to ensure that users of the capital's public transport network have access to the most information possible, thus reaching their destination as quickly as possible. The system, which is based on satellite vehicle tracking, enables BKK to monitor Budapest traffic in real time, continuously and 24 hours a day, to maintain scheduled traffic and to intervene quickly and efficiently in emergency situations.