The mission of the TRACE project was to assess the potential of movement tracking services to better plan and promote walking and cycling in cities, and develop tracking tools that fuel the take up of walking and cycling measures.
The project targeted established measures to promote cycling and walking to the workplace, to school, for shopping purposes or for leisure. More particularly, TRACE assessed the potential of ICT based tracking services to optimise the planning and implementation of such measures and enhance their attractiveness and potential impact. Issues such as data privacy, cost, interoperability, financial/tax incentives, infrastructure planning and service concepts were addressed.
Dedicated TRACE tracking-based tools to promote behaviour change and support mobility planning were tested in eight pilot sites and evaluated in terms of impacts, success factors and benefits, while preparing for their full commercial exploitation. To that end, common, flexible and open access tools were developed, which address related ICT challenges and enable the development of products based on tracking services tailored to the requirements of specific measures by market-oriented application developers.
Partners
The project had 12 partners. The 8 pilot sites are: Breda (NL), Agueda (PT), Southend on Sea Borough (UK), Bologna (IT), Luxembourg/ Belval Esch (LU), Belgrade (RS), Plovdiv (BG) and Belgium.