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Elke Vandenbroucke: G-PaTRA lighthouse by Taxistop
- 1. G-PaTRA lighthouse by Taxistop “Breaking the habit…” 21/03/2018 - Elke Vandenbroucke
- 2. Who we are… Share to impact!
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- 5. Train net Core network Complimentary network Customised transport (taxi, shared mobility, …) link with Mobihubs link with Mobitwin Link with SocialCar 5 New 4 layered transport vision in Flanders
- 6. Keyfocus: Less Mobile Service
- 7. 3.000 drivers Mainly retired Spare time as idling capacity They love driving (and escaping from home ;-)) Have an own car 7 MobiTwin – “Be Somebody”
- 8. 37.000 members Average age: 80 Not disabled Often socially isolated Wage < 2x minimum wage 8 MobiTwin
- 9. 225 local points Dispatching Promotion: balance between offer and demand Face-to-face intake Municipalities, health care, … “Our main concern is to reward our voluntary drivers” 9 MobiTwin
- 10. “W 10
- 11. My projects “Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated?” Quality Neighbourhoods Mobihubs SocialCar
- 12. “Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. They paved paradise And put up a parking lot” Quality Neighbourhoods 12
- 13. Living Lab - “Breaking the habit” 1 month without a car to try out sustainable alternatives (bottom-up citizen participation process) 2 neighbourhoods: • Sint-Amandsberg (°16/9 - 18/10) • Molenbergwijk Beveren-Waas (°august - september) • °sharing point Quality Neighbourhoods 13
- 14. Connection with PT Car-sharing Bicycle parking 14 Mobihubs On-demand 1st mile transport
- 15. Deinze (Mobihub) Aalst Beveren-Aan-De-Ijzer (Westhoek – “Village Point”) Quality Neighbourhoods (with Mobihubs?) 15
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- 17. Is it possible to bring SocialCar technology to new target groups? E.g. Rural areas? “I want to ride my bicycle…” 17
- 18. Transfer of knowhow to other sites Dissemination • Local and international conferences • Taxistop & G-PaTRA Newsletter • http://northsearegion.eu/g-patra/project-partners/ “Dream on, Dream on; Dream until your dreams come true…” 18
- 19. “Should I stay or should I go now?” Elke Vandenbroucke evb@taxistop.be - 09 242 32 20 19
Editor's Notes
- Welcome! Is everybody ready? Can’t hear you! I said, is everybody ready? … Well, there goes my career as a rock artist. Kidding, kidding, but welcome! I’m Elke and I work for Taxistop and I’m here to talk about breaking the habit: My lighthouse within the G-PaTRA project: Green Passenger Transport in Rural Areas. I’ll tell you all about what we’re going to do with it.
- But introductions first! I’m a project Manager rocking the shared mobility - working for Taxistop, an ngo founded in ‘75. So for 40 years we’ve been breaking the habits. We’ve been developing a variety of services in the fields of sustainable holidays and shared mobility, all within our philosophy of doing more with less. Throughout our services, We provide an answer to a social demand from a sustainable perspective.
- Our core business is the promotion of carpooling towards a diverse audience: carpool.be – as presented here, our most important service: carpool.be – focuses on carpooling your commuting trip. Think of a situation where you find yourselves stuck on your commuting trip. I live in a small rural village and work in Brussels, our capital city. Now and then my train gets into trouble and is not able to get me to this final destination. I have multiple options to get to a few bigger stations along the way, but there I am two stations stuck from my end destination. What now? I could hope to spot someone who wisely parked his car at a bigger train station with more train connections. Or, if I don’t… Well, click, click, click: I’m requesting myself a carpooltrip.
- Another big issue for rural areas is the general coverage of PT. I mentioned my trains (Don’t get me wrong, I love my trains! Check out my Instagram feed elke.Vandenbroucke if you don’t believe me!) I can’t say anything about my buses, because the past 4 years I’ve been living there, I haven’t even bothered checking these out. I’m living in a rural area and I basically need a car in front of my door for tons of practical reasons (shopping, see my kinesist, my doctor, hobbies). There’s practically no escaping it. But my little seat Ibiza is also just standing there most of the time. So I subscribed it in the cozycar system: a carsharing organisations Taxistop helped create, for sharing your own car with neighboors, friends or family. (Autodelen.net is the Flemish version of it) Or get a shared cambiocar from the privately owned carsharing organisation Cambio.
- So this is what Taxistop is offering. What you also need to know is that… In Flanders we’re currently working on a new transport vision so the different layers of mobility will be better adjusted to one another. The problem with this is vision is that the concept of “basic accessibility to PT for everyone” is endangered and we’ll need a strong customized transport that offers enough alternatives to remain mobile. The Less Mobile Service with the MobiTwin app & the project of Mobihubs already offers this form of customized transport. In the light of this new transport vision we want to investigate how we can improve or broaden the service and see how it could offer solutions maybe for a wider target audience.
- Let’s start with a key focus on the Less Mobile Service.
- Since this service in particular is what we would like to focus on in the G-PaTRA project would be the Less Mobile Service. Now called Mobitwin with the launch of the app. This service is a peer to peer social mobility service for the elderly … This service runs thanks to the aid of 3000 voluntary drivers. These people are mainly retired They have a lot of spare time on their hands, which could be usefully spend They love driving and own a car Though these drivers make no profit (only the max. fee per kilometer) they get generously rewarded with flowers, bbq’s and many more.
- 37.000 Less Mobile members are counting on our drivers to get to their destination. The only condition to use the service is that the wage they receive is less then 2 times the minimum wage.
- How does it work? The LMS consists of 225 local points. These could be municipalities, local organisations, healt care centres et cet. Each local point is responsible for dispatching drivers in their local region. They organize their own promotion as to insure the good balance between offer and demand. Thanks to this local character, intake of new drivers happens with a face-to-face interview, so the local person in charge knows how to match the driver to the members. And here lies the strength: the autonomy of the local point so they’re able to build out the service in their own way. *** Rol van lokale gemeenten en hun autonomie: ze beslissen zelf hoe en wanneer ze tussenkomen en regelene dit naar hun eigen goesting 80% van de gemeenten doen mee omdat ze dat op hun eigen manier kunnen uitbouwen
- And as to make the service even more user friendly and provide a more flexible access to the service, we’re currently launching the MobiTwin app. This app quickly shows availability of a driver and makes the passenger smoothly book a trip. This delivers a stronger service and the elderly who live in rural areas no longer have to fear social exclusion of reduced mobility.
- Projects that I ran through and I know wish to use as concept for building out my lighthouse project are… Quality Neighborhoods Mobihubs SocialCar A nice mixture of all these project, as not to make things complicated what so ever…
- The Quality Neighborhoods project started of with the question: Which citizens were brave enough to face the challenge of leaving their car for 1 month and try out sustainable alternatives instead. This would consequently create more open space to be put to better advantage… So away with parking lots and bring back paradise.
- By breaking the habit… Because within these neighbourhoods we’re looking for the input of citizens: a bottom-up process to improve their mobility and get them hooked on sustainable alternatives by the simple vision of test it out for 1 month. Sint-Amandsberg, a district in the beautiful city of Ghent and the district Beveren-Waas near Antwerp. Already experimented with this last year. In Beveren this even lead to the creation of a sharing point: a meeting place where not only information on shared mobility was shared but also other stuff and quality time… Yet the idea of creating a central sharing point is not new… In Bremen the actual concept of a mobihub already exist. A mobihub being a junction for different modes of transport on neighborhood level. The basic exists of a few parking spaces for shared cars, a bicycle parking and nearby a stop for PT.
- Today in Flanders there are many different cities and villages who already have the carsharing parking space next to a connection onto another mode of transport. So slowly creating these sort of sharing points or hubs (But there is no strategy nor vision behind this.) And – for Flanders - we believe that giving the child a name, will lead to more recognisability and better quality! That’s how Taxistop and partner Autodelen.net created the idea to work around a mobihub with a clear definition of How is should look like (very important for recognisability, in each city or village, wherever you go) What it should offer: well a variety of essential mobility functions to get on your way off course. In this example we see a busstop, a carsharing station, a bicycle parking … and even more. Because it could easily go broader: like provide more comfort or fulfil other needs (Wifi-connections, locker for package drop-off …) In a perfectly interlinked transport vision, this type of on-demand transport is preferably used for first- and last mile coverage,, For example: to reach a Mobihub in the village. This Mobihub then provides the connection to PT or a shared car. As of today we’re able to very quickly redefine existing carsharing spaces into full-fledged Mobihubs. We further also strive for take up of Mobihubs in the design phase of every new city developmentproject. On this slide you can see the example of branding and promotion we created. Soon to be seen in the city of Deinze and hopefully many more to follow.
- So stad Deinze launched it first mobihub in March. And in the months to follow, we hope to tell you how the Mobihub project has been running over there. In Alost - where you are today! - there are many district committees enthusiastic for joining in as well. We’ll also establish a collaboration with Transmobil in the Westhoek region for better rural shared mobility between the border with France and Belgium. That’s how we started a collaboration with the central Village Point in Beveren-Aan-De-Ijzer for developing a quality Neighbourhood. We just recently started up the observation session of mobility behaviour and are currently thinking out the broad spectrum of shared and sustainable alternatives…
- Also in the new transport vision of Flanders it’s also good to know what ALL of your options are, including the interconnection between different transport modes. In my previous project SocialCar we’ve developed this type of multimodal journey planner that uses opensource technology to fluently link Carpool options and different Public Transport options into one app. This increases your mobility options enormously.
- How does it work? You drive your car into Brussels city center and get stuck in traffic along the way. You don’t like this option, so you consider taking public transport, but the hassle here is the frequence of your PT and maybe too many transfers involved. SocialCar provides a third solution: carpool around Brussels to a train station on the other side, get on PT for the last miles and Walk this way. This is the technology that’s behind it and that we’ve tested out. Though we have this technology now, the app clearly still needs more improvement and needs further testing. So it would be interesting to see if this kind of app delivers good solutions for rural areas as well. So I’m actually very excited to further test this out within the G-PaTra project.
- I’ll keep dreaming on about broader range of sustainable alternatives for rural areas. Simply subscribe to the G-PaTRA newsletter and we’ll make sure to spam you with all actions undertaken to create a successful lighthouse project And to see if our dreams truly come true!
- We’ll make sure we’ll spam you!