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Activity: UPC Sustainable Mobility

Official meeting

18/10/2022 17:36 0 comments

03 November 2022

10:00 - 12:00

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Reference: eitum-MEET-2022-09-17

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This activity is named “UPC Sustainable Mobility”. The activity consists of each participant moving from Campus Nord UPC to Campus Diagonal-Besòs UPC, using diverse transportation modes: bicycle, bus, e-bicycle, e-scooter, metro, run, train, tram or walk.

The participants will previously install the app MobilitApp, used to predict the transportation mode used by the citizen and to estimate the CO2 generated/saved: http://mobilitat.upc.edu (External link)

Also, participants will previously install the app MAPPO, used to show 3 alternative routes to make the same itinerary: the shortest route, the less polluted route and an intermediate route: https://telecos.upc.edu/ca/noticies/seminar-what-is-mappo (External link)

Date: Thursday 3rd November 2022, 10:00 - 12:00

Meeting point: Plaça Telecos, Campus Nord, 10:00

Destination point: Escola d'Enginyeria de Barcelona Est (EEBE) (External link). Campus Diagonal Besòs. Edifici A. Av. Eduard Maristany, 16. https://g.page/EEBE_UPC?share (External link) We will meet at classroom A1-09.

At the meeting room at our destination, we will share our experiences and we will have a lottery for the participants of a wonderful Small loudSpeakers (External link) (Ultimate Ears Boom 3 Sunset Red, Bluetooth, 90 dB) valued at more than 100 euros. Also, we will send a Diploma to each participant as a collaborator with the Project 4I4U.

*** REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/anLNwfGnKGBZXD9H9 (External link)

All students who participate in these activities will receive an EIT Urban Mobility T-shirt and a free ticket to visit the Tomorrow Mobility Congress (External link) on November 17th 2022, after the Hackathon.

Please, do not hesitate to contact us for any doubt: monica.aguilar@upc.edu (External link), alexandra.hoesli@carnetbarcelona.com (External link)

We encourage you to participate in both interesting experiments to help improve urban mobility in Barcelona. Looking forward to seeing you!

Warmest regards,

Mónica Aguilar Igartua

Alexandra Hoesli

Elisa Sayrol

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The activity was a big success. We had a group of 20 UPC students from diverse UPC engineering degrees and from the Master in Urban Mobility (External link) (MUM), which is supported by the Urban Mobility Master School (External link) as part of the European Institute of Technology (External link) (EIT). We met at 10:00 in the Plaça Telecos, Campus Nord (UPC) and we distribute the participants in three groups that used different transportation modes to move to Campus Diagonal-Besòs: bus, tram, metro, e-scooter and e-bike.

During the trips, participants generated sensor data from their smartphones along their multimodal trips, to help us to design the Mobilitapp (External link) tool.

And you know who arrived first? Gorka Pradas (External link) did, over his wonderful e-scooter, he just took 40 min to travel around 16 km to the Campus Diagonal-Besòs. Gorka is a student of the MUM and a pasionate about urban mobility issues and solutions, see Gorka'sTweeter (External link).

Once in the classroom, we commented their experiences during the trips and we also had an interesting debate about the issues that worry most them regarding urban mobility in their own cities and also in Barcelona. Lukas Junghanns (External link) is a German student of the MUM at UPC, he is very interested in active mobility, public transport and human-centred urban planning, and he explained that in his city (and same happened to other cities) used the COVID momentum to start transforming the cities by reducing the amount of cars and increasing the number of cicling streets.

Romain Bourdeaux (External link) is an Erasmus student at UPC, he explained how Paris has closed the streets around schools and institutes for cars, and now students can enjoy the street to play in a less contaminated area. He told us that young people is specially concerned about pollution in the cities and they have to try something, so closing the streets around schools is a way to start city transformation.

Gorka Pradas (External link) told us about his experience during the trip: "The rid was fine, with fresh air, kind of free sensation, like going in a cloud. Also I faced some problems when the bike line stops and I had to use the pedestrian sidewalk during a while, but I could manage easily".

Additionally, we also interview Jie Xu, who is doing a stay at the UPC. She is from China, where many cities have a very high popullation density and traffic problemes. Depending on the last number of the car plate, they can travel some days or others. She as a female feels not save in the last mile in her way home during night, going alone through dark streets. For that reason she and other students developed the service "Your Way Home (External link)" so that vehicles leave you in front of your home door, which is good for young people who cannot afford a taxi cost. They offer women and night shift employees cheaper rides at night with their mobility partners. In that way, rides can be as cheap as riding public transport while being sustainable and feeling safe. Also, we talk about a related project in the EIT Women in Urban Mobility (External link), which aims to raise awareness of female perspectives and gender equality in the urban mobility sector.

You can see the interviews in this link: https://zonavideo.upc.edu/video/63a5656a6748320ac40277e2 (External link)

Finally, we celebrated a lottery of a loudspeaker "Ultimate Ears MegaBoom Lite with Bluetooth", and the winner was Axel Rimbaud (External link), a French engineer very committed with urban mobility issues, special related to road safety, excessive speed and traffic accidents.