ALPIO project

MaaS pilots were conducted in public- private collaboration during the project. In the pilots, companies, regional and local Project info stakeholders joined their expertise in order . The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra to experiment with different ways of funding call for regional mobility organizing mobility services. The pilots . Duration: 05/2018 – 11/2019 included demand-responsive transport . Regional pilots: (DRT) and integrated transport services for . Eastern different user groups, combining trips for self-paying and subsidized customers. In . South Savo addition, a smartphone application was . Tampere region () introduced for self-paying customers. . Digital platform created by companies: Eastern Uusimaa . Kyyti Group The Eastern Uusimaa pilot was conducted in the city of Porvoo and the city of Loviisa. The pilot . Vinka included a DRT service called Kyläkyyti, operated . Sitowise by minibuses. It ran from January to May 2019 in . Infotripla Porvoo and to June 2019 in Loviisa. The piloted areas included rural areas where no public . VTT was responsible for research transport existed during the operation times of (e.g. impact assessment) Kyläkyyti. In Porvoo the service was targeted at young people travelling to and from leisure activities, and in Loviisa the aim of the service was to offer a feeder service for long-haul Tampere region commuting. The Tampere region (also called Pirkanmaa) Both services improved accessibility and the was the subject of an integrated transport service level in the piloted areas. Users were service pilot in the Kuru area of the city of extremely content with the service, and user Ylöjärvi, and the Vammala area of the city of survey resulted in Net Promoter Score 96. In Sastamala. The pilot integrated different user addition, according to the user survey Porvoo groups, services and vehicles within the same pilot resulted in a remarkable modal shift from mobility system (Fig. 1.). These included the private cars to DRT minibus. SHST service; a DRT service transport called PALI, targeted at elderly and mobility-impaired South Savo people; and a DRT service called Kyläkyyti, From March to June 2019 South Savo piloted which uses a mobile app. The vehicles used demand-responsive service transport (minibus) in included taxis and minibuses, and the pilot ran the city of , and both call-service and from March to October 2019, starting gradually mobile app were available. In addition, a new with different services. Kuru and Vammala were system was introduced to increase the sharing of selected as pilot areas because of their sparse statutory social and health service taxi rides. population and long distances. There is also Municipal minibuses dedicated for group very limited public transport in these areas. transport of elderly people were also integrated in Opening SHST for self-paying customers the system and used for social and health service created a new service and thus improved the transport (SHST) rides when available from service level. Integrating statutory SHST and scheduled group rides. These changes increased service transport improved occupancy rates of occupancy and utilization rates of vehicles and vehicles, reduced driven kilometers, and reduced the need of taxi rides, which reduced emissions equally, and resulted in cost savings driven kilometers, emissions and costs. DRT for the public sector. also improved the service level by introducing a more flexible service. Fig. 1. Transport services for different user groups before and during the Pirkanmaa pilot (Eckhardt, Lauhkonen & Siira 2019)

Further information . Research reports (in Finnish) . Eckhardt, J., Lauhkonen, A., & Siira, E. (2019). Henkilökuljetusten yhdistelyn kokeilut ja suositukset. VTT:n tutkimusraportti VTT-R-01151-19. . Eckhardt, J. & Lauhkonen, A. (2019). Alueellisten liikkumiskokeilujen vaikutusarviointi. VTT:n tutkimusraportti VTT-R-01152-19. . Merisalo, M., Oksanen, J., Valovirta, V. & Eckhardt, J. (2019). Kuljetusten välityksen ja yhdistelyn hankintamallit. VTT:n tutkimusraportti VTT-R-01149-19. . Conference papers: . Eckhardt, J., Lauhkonen, A. & Aapaoja, A. (2019). Impact Assessment of Rural PPP MaaS Pilots. Proceedings of 2nd international conference on Mobility as a Service, ICoMaaS, Tampere 3.-4.12.2019 . Eckhardt, J., Siira, E., Merisalo, M., Lauhkonen, A., Lahti, J., Valovirta, V., Oksanen, J. & Kostiainen, J. (forthcoming 2020). Toolkit for rural Mobility as a Service development. TRA2020, Helsinki, , April 27-30, 2020. . Web pages: . https://www.sitra.fi/en/projects/public-private-mobility-services-offered-side-side/#what-is-it-about . https://cris.vtt.fi/en/projects/alueellisen-liikkumisen-palveluiden-integroitu-operointi

Contact 11.12.2019 VTT – beyond the obvious Jenni Eckhardt Tel. +358 40 750 5615 www.vttresearch.com [email protected]