Stronger Combined - Combined Mobility in the rural public transport system to build sustainable rural public services in symbiosis with private mobility providers and citizens

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Date of latest update: 2024-01-30

Description

Description (EN):

Combined Mobility is an emerging strategy to reorganise transport to tackle mobility and sustainability challenges by offering an alternative to private vehicle ownership in sparsely populated areas. It may do so by, for instance, combining mobility and societal services as part of a single, seamless offering that is made available to users via app subscriptions. Stronger Combined (SC) brings the concept from urban to sparsely populated areas and addresses the key challenges of public transport reformation; generic lack of knowledge among political decision-makers, changing service preferences and expectations of rural citizens, and inflexible legal and administrative frameworks of operating transport. Outputs include an open traffic data platform and transnationally validated service concepts for rural combined mobility. These will benefit travelers, private service developers, municipalities and regional public authorities. The beneficiaries apply a transnational approach of three joint processes; open data (WP3), innovation process (WP4) and cooperation platforms (WP5) to address the challenges. The sustainability of the processes is evaluated (WP6) to enable pilot and result measurement, comparability and replication. The homogeneity of the public transport sector in the NSR enables wide uptake of green solutions for regional personal rural transport and ensures measurable long-term impact on rural living standards, mobility patterns and aggregated CO2 emissions.

Achievements (EN):

As the stronger combined project has come to an end the partnership is leaving the North Sea region a richer place when it comes to actual sustainable mobility options and greater insights into how to run and set them up. Throughout the project Partners have piloted different approaches and set examples allowing for trickle down effects to so many more places than simply the project areas. For instance, DIE has developed existing Village hubs with focus on social interactions and locality to include a mobility element as well. These Village hubs were such a success that they will continue to develop more in the region while also negotiating with the Flemish Government to introduce these mobility solutions into the Flemish transportation vision. Over in Sweden efforts lead by SAM to launch the new trafiklab.se and to collect references to other member states Nation access points has made open traffic data so much more available. HAL and VAR has also continuously provided data and worked on data quality checks together with SAM a knowledge that is now shared throughout Sweden to all PTAs and PTOs. Furthermore, VAR has received many inquiries to present the developed service mixtrafik to other PTAs throughout Sweden. It has also been prioritized for more funding in order to further launch the service throughout the Värmland region. As for the bike sharing scheme VAR is committed to continue to provide the service in its current form, acknowledging the importance of understanding customer behaviors when it comes to combined mobility in advance the future procurement process for all bus traffic. Bikes has been a big theme elsewhere in the partnership as well. GEN has piloted several different bike schemes such as the test bisiklet and adult cycling library, while RIN has introduced E-cargo bikes into their city’s offering. While other partners have been working hard to partake in various cooperation platforms to great success. The King of Netherlands even visited one of the Stronger Combined partners PUB. These are solutions and contacts that will remain well after the completion of the project. OPP in Norway have also been successful in enhancing their mountain routes services. A solution that pilots the combined mobility in the form of public transport and trekking. 2022 was the most successful year so far for the mountain routes. In Denmark SKI found a way to draw from customers’ needs to improve the opportunities for ridesharing. They piloted a ridesharing app together with an information campaign that was appreciated by the citizens of Lihme. HIT with the help of Stronger Combined were able to launch the GO-HI app in June 2022 delivering a Region wide, multi-modal journey planning system using real-time data that offers account-based payment available to all users for all participating mobility options. HIT were also able to secure further support from the Scottish Government in order to continue build upon their initial success, allowing them to deliver, amongst many things, an integrated DRT booking platform, improved and newly introduced eBike, folding bike and eCar club offerings. This is truly developing into a MaaS platform with a wide offering, a service to the rural citizens of the North Sea region that Stronger Combined helped pioneer. Over the years, as seen in the evaluation report by RIS, Stronger Combined has launched several pilot venturing into combined mobility, that have and will continue to improve the sustainable mobility offer in rural areas of the North Sea region. Knowledge was gained and a lot of experiences have been shared across the partnership which shows that we truly are Stronger Combined.

Website: https://northsearegion.eu/stronger-combined

Thematic information

Transport and mobility Rural and peripheral development

Specific Objective: Stimulate the take-up and application of green transport solutions for regional freight and personal transport

Thematic Objective: (07) promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures by:

Investment Priority: (07c) developing and improving environmentally-friendly (including low-noise) and low-carbon transport systems, including inland waterways and maritime transport, ports, multimodal links and airport infrastructure, in order to promote sustainable regional and local mobility

Partners (13)

Lead Partner: Region Värmland

Address: Rosenborgsgatan 50, 651 82 Karlstad, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.varmlandstrafik.se

Total budget: EUR 736 604.00

ERDF budget: EUR 368 302.00

Antwerp Management School

Name: Antwerp Management School

Address: www.antwerpmanagementschool.be, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.antwerpmanagementschool.be

Total budget: EUR 176 830.00

ERDF budget: EUR 88 415.00

Dienstverlenende Vereniging Westhoek

Name: Dienstverlenende Vereniging Westhoek

Address: Woumenweg 100, 8600 Diksmuide, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.westhoekoverleg.be

Total budget: EUR 70 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 35 000.00

Hallandstrafiken AB

Name: Hallandstrafiken AB

Address: Box 269, 31123 Falkenberg, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hallandstrafiken.se

Total budget: EUR 358 500.00

ERDF budget: EUR 179 250.00

INGHA

Name: INGHA

Address: Josua-Stegmann-Wall 3, 31737 Rinteln, Germany

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 158 242.00

ERDF budget: EUR 79 121.00

Innlandet Fylkeskommune

Name: Innlandet Fylkeskommune

Address: Parkgata 64 , Postbox 4404, 2325 Hamar, Norway

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.innlandetfylke.no

Total budget: EUR 223 450.00

Norddjurs Kommune

Name: Norddjurs Kommune

Address: Torvet 3, 8500 Grenaa, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.norddjurs.dk

Publiek Vervoer Groningen Drenthe

Name: Publiek Vervoer Groningen Drenthe

Address: Postbus 189, 9400 AD Assen, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.publiekvervoer.nl/

Total budget: EUR 629 150.00

ERDF budget: EUR 314 575.00

Samtrafiken i Sverige AB

Name: Samtrafiken i Sverige AB

Address: Centralplan 3, 11120 Stockholm, Sweden

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.samtrafiken.se

Total budget: EUR 406 608.00

ERDF budget: EUR 203 304.00

Skive Municipality

Name: Skive Municipality

Address: Raadhuspladsen 2, 7800 Skive, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.skive.dk

Total budget: EUR 128 585.00

ERDF budget: EUR 64 292.00

Stad Genk

Name: Stad Genk

Address: Stadsplein 1, 3600 Genk, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.genk.be

Total budget: EUR 333 622.00

ERDF budget: EUR 166 811.00

Stadt Rinteln

Name: Stadt Rinteln

Address: Klosterstrasse 19, 31737 Rinteln, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rinteln.de

Total budget: EUR 218 582.00

ERDF budget: EUR 109 291.00

The Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership

Name: The Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership

Address: 6/7 Ardross Terrace, IV35NQ Inverness, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hitrans.org.uk

Total budget: EUR 337 911.00

ERDF budget: EUR 168 955.00

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Region Värmland

Stronger Combined - Combined Mobility in the rural public transport system to build sustainable rural public services in symbiosis with private mobility providers and citizens

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Antwerp Management School

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Service Rendering Association Westhoek

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Hallandstrafiken

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INGHA

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Innland County Council

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Norddjurs Municipality

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PUB Groningen Drenthe

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Samtrafiken

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Skive Kommune

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Genk

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City of Rinteln

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The Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership

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Project name (EN): Stronger Combined - Combined Mobility in the rural public transport system to build sustainable rural public services in symbiosis with private mobility providers and citizens

Project acronym: Stronger Combined (SC)

Project start date: 2019-01-01

Project end date: 2022-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 4 009 684.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 893 116.00

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-02-14

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

73 / 73 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

871 / 871 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.northsearegion.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-09-20 and 2023-01-12.

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