Proactivity-based and micro-vehicle centric measures for unprotected VRUs

LL#4 in a nutshell

SOTERIA’s Living Lab #4 will take place in Igoumenitsa and Chania in Greece, aiming to identify road hazards for unprotected VRUs such as bicycles, powered two-wheelers and e-scooters. LL#4 is expected to validate SOTERIA’s sensory kit and applications for micro-mobility by collecting data from cyclists and courier two-wheelers in two Greek cities. In May 2023, in parallel with the rest of SOTERIA’s Living Labs, a series of workshops and surveys will be launched across the identified stakeholders in Greece in order to raise awareness of the LL#4 within the local community.

A micro-vehicle sensory kit for data collection

The pilot will start with an ex-ante evaluation of road safety levels in the selected cities. This will be achieved through co-creation activities with various stakeholders that include academia, industry, local authorities, micromobility service providers, citizen communities, VRUs. Through the co-creation process we’ll try to identify local requirements, barriers and opportunities for VRUs, with the scope of concluding to a common city vision, matching actors’ diverse goals interests and agendas. The analysis of the results will also help to validate solutions and identify safe public designs.
A micro-vehicle sensory kit is envigased to be developed and installed on different types of vehicles (bicycles, powered two-wheelers and e-scooters) of the local bike-sharing systems (five bike stations in Igoumenitsa, four in Chania), delivery employees using power two-wheelers and users from the public. The demonstration will focus on validating the SOTERIA sensory kit and applications for micro-mobility. Data from the sensory kit will be collected during both rounds of the pilots and will support the operation of various services for VRUs safety.
An ex-post evaluation of the results will assess the operational efficiency of the sensory kit, and the data collected will be used to advise local actions and policies.

Partners

SOTERIA’s Living Lab #4 is organised by Cyclopolis and supported by Elta Courier and Frontier Innovations.