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INDEX
Part 1. RP2 developments and current status
• Overview
• Specific objectives and challenges
• Developments
• Role of the partners
• Current status
• Promotion & Recruitment
• Problems & solutions. Lessons learnt.
Part 2. Pilot presentation: Demo
• Key elements
• Services
• How the systems works etc.
• Videos.
4. Scope
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Urban bus
Bike sharing (Pisa)
Car parking area (about 100 slots)
near the Resistenza tram stop in
Scandicci-Florence (Park&Ride)
Car-pooling
(60+ shared journeys)
300+ registered users
230+ transactions
Feedback received from users
Key achievement
ModesAdditional services
Bus traffic flow monitoring
Statistics
Trip planning
Integration with existing
services/Interoperability
5. Specific Objectives &
Challenges
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• The pilot aims to propose an integrated platform which allows end-users to
access to a wide-set of transport services and related payment modes.
• Target users: commuters and tourists in Pisa and Florence.
• Users can buy public transports tickets as well as share their private car with
other registered users through an innovative car-pooling functionality.
• Several payment modes available (PayPal, user’s mobile credit, credit cards
etc.), different technologies (web, Android apps) and different types of tickets
(SMS, QR-code).
• The platform is web based and provides the payment services directly (via a
normal browser) or through specific Android apps developed by Italian
partners.
• The platform integrates also value added service like traffic flow control and
statistics retrieved during trial phase.
7. Developments
• Completion of all deployments in Scandicci and Pisa (beginning of July 2015).
• FAT/SAT campaign related to deployed components.
• Car-sharing: implementation of additional functionalities (user’s feedback).
• SIMIS Web APIs for integration with existing services & interoperability.
• 1st pilot demonstration (9-10 July 2015 Pisa & Florence).
• Development of additional functionalities i.e. security (https), Statistics in
SIMIS. Bug fixing+no regression test.
• Dissemination-user recruitment (on going): reached 200 end users by the end
of November 2015 (300 at the beginning of February).
• Interoperability with Serbian Pilot.
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8. Developments
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Deployment (Pisa) including FAT/SAT testing phase
Implementation (bus traffic monitoring)
New functionalities (car-pooling functionalities, web APIs)
New functionalities (i.e. trip planning, statistics, dynamic fee etc.)
Deployment (Scandicci)
Implementation (Park&Ride app)
Test (FAT/SAT)
New functionalities (i.e. PIN code ticketing)
Bug fixing + overall no regression tests.
User recruitment/promotional initiatives
Serbian Pilot Interoperability
Spanish Pilot Interoperability
UK Pilot Interoperability
2nd Reporting period
I pilot demonstration
RP2 start II pilot demonstration
RP2 end
9. Role of the partners
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Partner Role
Intecs spa
(Technical)
• Pilot coordination.
• Technology provider (SIMIS, PisaBus app, HW).
• Deployment (Pisa).
CNR
(Research)
• Car pooling functionalities.
• Traffic flow sensors + deployment (Pisa).
• Contact with stakeholders (i.e.PisaMO).
• Dissemination.
Aleph srl
(SME-Technical)
• Deployment in Scandicci (Florence).
• MobiTickt Android app (Park&Ride).
• Contact with Municipalities and other stakeholders
(Scandicci town hall, Park manager etc.).
Comune
Firenze
(Municipality)
• Contact with Florence transport company and
stakeholders (tourism, sport).
• Dissemination.
• Support in legal and administrative issues.
GEST Tramvia
spa
(Transport
company)
• Deployment in Scandicci tram stop (Resistenza),
• Dissemination and promotion.
• Contacts with stakeholders (i.e. ticketing machine
service provider etc.).
10. Current status
November 2015 January 2016 February 2016
Modes
involved:
• Urban bus ticket
(Pisa)
• Park &Ride
(Scandicci-
Florence).
• Car pooling.
• Bike sharing
(Pisa).
ALL ALL
Number of
users: 194 256 332
Number of
transactions:
109 181 229
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11. Promotion &Recruitment
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• GEST: Light Rail Awards (London 2015): best customer initiative award.
• Several press releases (CNR, GEST).on local newspapers.
• ComFI press release: Stefano Giorgetti, Councillor for public works, infrastructure projects, roads and
maintenance, local public transport (Florence Municipality).
• Involvement of ComFI mobility manager (target: ComFI employers), communications have been made to
more than 4,000 people.
• Intecs: Article on “Il Sole 24 ore” (Italian financial newspaper).
• Aleph/ComFI: Florence marathon: prepared a brochure (ENG/ITA) to invite participants and volunteers to
join the trial.
• ALL
• Dissemination on social networks (i.e. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter).
• Several planned promotional initiatives (i.e. free tickets) related to Pisa/Florence events.
13. Payment by PayPal
merchant account with
Credit Card or mobile
credit (cash as well).
Core Services
(Some) transaction
details are stored in
SIMIS DBMS (*).
Use transport mode.
Bike-sharing:
service provider’s
card is mandatory.
Clearing process provided by
entities not included in the
cluster (i.e. PayPal, mobile
operators, transport
companies) or user’s PayPal
account (car-sharing)...
Top-up &
clearing
(*) i..e type of ticket, date&time,
userId etc. IMPORTANT: No
financial data is stored in SIMIS
(ie.bank account, PayPal passwords,
PIN codes etc.).
Bus, tram, car-
parking: User
receives the ticket
(SMS, QR-code)
on his/her mobile.
User tops up his/her Smartphone, logs
in SIMIS and plans a journey selecting
the appropriate transport mode (or
alternatively launches the specific app).
Payment could be performed through
SIMIS itself or, depending by selected
service, through the apps.
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User taps “Buy” button from SIMIS, launches
PisaBus app and pays the ticket with his/her
mobile credit..
Core ServicesValidation
Ticket is validated once
received by user.
User shares his/her car or finds a user
who already shared a journey and joins
a shared travel.
Reimbursement can be performed
through PayPal (or cash).
SMS ticket is verified by ticket
inspector once user is on-board.
15. Driver pays parking time to PayPal merchant
account through MobiTickt app or via the
signage totem deployed in the car-parking area in
Scandicci.
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Core ServicesValidation
Payment is verified by
parking staff through a
version of MobiTickt
app which checks car’s
plate.
SMS tram ticket is purchased
through MobiTickt app
Car’s plate is stored in parking
operator system once user
registers to the service.
Service is integrated within SIMIS. User rents
the bike through his/her credit card on service
provider’s payment area.
16. Core Services
Fare
Calculation
• Public transports: fares are set by transport companies.
• SIMIS proposes an estimated cost which is automatically calculated when a user joins a
car-sharing journey.
• The estimation cost takes in account the distance, number of passengers on board and
considers also an (estimated) price of the fuel (€/lt.).
• However, since car-sharing it’s a private agreement between users, the actual price agreed
between the subjects involved (driver and passengers) could be different than the
estimated cost.
18. Core services
Traveller Interface: Bike sharing service (Pisa)
Bike sharing service is available on SIMIS Trip planning.
User can display station’s location on trip planning map.
Payment could be performed through the service provider’s payment web area and
credit card.
20. Core services: Park &Ride area
(Scandicci-Florence)
In collaboration with
Resistenza tram stop
Signage totem deployed in car-parking
21. Core Services
Interfaces
Other interfaces: Web REST APIs
Available functionalities :
• User registration.
• SMS ticket request (for Pisa and Scandicci urban
transports).
• User’s feedback about the transport service.
• Notification of purchased ticket (in case the end-
user have bought the ticket via his/her mobile’s
credit).
• A recovery mechanism in case the ticket (the
sms) has not been delivered to the end user due
technical issues.
All data exchanged with SIMIS are secured (via
https) and also available in JSON format.
SIMIS provides a full set of functionalities in order to allow 3rd part application to
easily access to Italian pilot services.
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Using the system (1/3)
Urban bus (Pisa)
User taps “Buy bus ticket” button
from SIMIS, launches the PisaBus
app
User receives the SMS ticket on
his/her mobile. Ticket details are
stored in SIMIS,
User purchases the ticket via
mobile credit.
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Using the system (2/3)
User shares his/her car or …
Journey reimbursement through PayPal
Car pooling
… searches journeys shared by other users
Search results. Journey confirmation
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Using the system (3/3)
Payment is verified by
parking staff through a
version of MobiTickt app
which checks car’s plate.
User purchases a
ticket (SMS) via
mobile credit
Park & Ride (Scandicci- Florence)
User taps “Park&Ride” button
from SIMIS, launches the
Mobitickt app
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Drivers pay parking
time to PayPal parking
manager account via
the signage totem
deployed in the car-
parking area in
Scandicci.
25. Additional Services:
bus traffic flow monitoring
(Via Pietrasantina park-Pisa)
• Intermodal area (car-parking, urban bus stop, touristic parking slot and several facilities
for tourists).
• Technologies: traffic sensors. M2M GW. Image detection.
• Scope: Touristic bus traffic flow monitoring for parking occupancy estimation. Parking
pass payment via credit card through parking manager’s web site.
In collaboration with
26. Additional Services: trip planning
Step1 – Launch Trip planning from SIMIS main page.
Step 2– Set starting destination addresses and transport mode.
Step 3– Route details
27. Additional Services: statistics
Available functionalities:
- User’s statistics (n. of users, statistics about sex, ag, education etc.)
- Ticket’s statistics (tickets purchased in Pisa,& Scandicci, user’s
feedback etc,).
- Car-pooling statistics (shared km, agreed costs, user’s feedback
etc,).
29. Interoperability between
Italian and Serbian pilots
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General description:
• Italian and Serbian pilots interoperability is based on interaction through WEB remote
calls of specific functions implemented and provided by the payment platforms involved
(SIMIS and mTicketing).
• Modes involved: urban bus/tram transports in Pisa/Scandicci (Florence) and Novi Sad
urban bus ticket (JGSP karta).
• “Card-less” interoperability -> tickets are in electronic format (SMS for Italian pilot,
pkPass/ QR-code based for the Serbian pilot).
30. Interoperability between
Italian and Serbian pilots
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Italian and Serbian
pilots interoperability
high level
architecture
All invoked functions (REST web APIs) exchange data in secured mode (https).
31. Interoperability
data adaptation
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Data adaptation mainly involved SIMIS user’s registration
phase (from SIMIS towards mTicketing platform).
SIMIS user data mTicketing user data
UserId(*) Username(*)
Password(*) Password(*)
Name(*) First name(*)
Surname(*) Last name(*)
Address Address(*)
Email(*) Email(*)
Phone number Phone(*)
Other details (age, sex,
education etc.)
City(*)
Postal Code(*)
(*) mandatory fields
Data have been adapted taking in account the
format of information required by each platform.
Mandatory fields:
SIMIS user data empty fields or not present (i.e. city,
postal code) are filled with a predefined string
(“MOBIWALLET_ITALIAN_USER”)
Password:
SIMIS password must be “at least” 4 char long
(mTicketing requires at least 6 chars). Password is
automatically generated by SIMIS during mTicketing
registration phase.
Main goals:
perform an automatic registration/login to
mTicketing platform without requiring any
additional input from SIMIS user.
