The ORCHESTRA Board Game 

To make learning about the MTM concept model easier and more engaging, the ORCHESTRA project is developing a board game. This game introduces the new concept of traffic orchestration and allows the players to try handling transport and traffic challenges in ordinary and extraordinary situations.   Motivation  Concept models and reference architectures are useful tools for…

First elements for the acceptance of the MTM

from COPs exchanges during interviews and workshops 2022 Author: Bruno Dewailly, co-authors Ludovic Vaillant and Marie Douet, Cerema One of the main results from the previous work was that social and economic aspects matter (see the 2 sketches below of Freight and Passengers 2050). This is why the Vision & scenarios session was intended to…

Traffic Orchestration and Multimodal Traffic Management -board game to illustrate

Author: Dr Trine Marie Stene, Senior Scientist, SINTEF)  This session comprised two parts. (1) Introduction including:   Multimodal Traffic Management  The concepts “Transport Demand Management” (TDM) and “Demand Capacity Balancing” (DCB)   Measures regarding Traffic Orchestration  Data sharing and management   Resilience   Network concepts, including “Zone” and “Governance Area”  (2) Board Game prototype. The CoP workshop participants were split…

The Scenarios session in Herøya and Malpensa Living labs

The context in which the Multimodal Traffic Management (MTM) concept can be deployed is at the heart of the ORCHESTRA project. That is why the workshops held in Herøya and Malpensa devoted a one-hour session to the needed requirements, the gaps to fill up, and the barriers to overcome. The target visions for passenger and…

First ORCHESTRA Podcast with IOTA

ORCHESTRA takes a deep dive into the different partner’s approaches when it comes to future Traffic Management. In this #1 podcast, Jenny Simonsen talked to Michele Nati from IOTA about IOTA’s role in the project, and a bit about security, IoT and distributed ledger technology. Tune in, listen and learn more. We love to hear…

4Front webinar about – Developing traffic and network management of the future.

With 4 European-funded projects, the European Commission: 4FRONT cluster of projects (ORCHESTRA, TANGENT, DIT4TRAM, FRONTIER) had a webinar about the full picture of the future of traffic and network management. More importantly, how cities will look in terms of mobility and traffic, taking new forms of mobility into account.  The session will allow the audience…

ORCHESTRA – first plenary meeting

ORCHESTRA had its first Plenary meeting with all partners. Paris was moved to teams; however, it didn’t stop the partners from presenting how the project moves forward. ORCHESTRA is working with scenarios that address Multimodal traffic Management (MTM) concepts and solutions within and across modes and how the solutions should work in tomorrow’s transport system.

ORCHESTRA is live!

ORCHESTRA is live! We have had a kick-off of the project, and works have started. Attached is a press -release stating more about the project and its partners. Orchestra2020 Press release 2021-05-27 Final (2)

Robotisert følgetjeneste testkjøres i stor EU-satsing på Herøya i Porsgrunn

Herøya Industripark er i front på å testkjøre framtidens autonome transportløsninger. Industriparken er valgt som Living Lab, et levende testområde, i EUs storstilte satsing på smart intermodal transport. Herøya Industripark AS skal på oppdrag fra EU testkjøre autonom følgetjeneste for godstransport. Målet i EU-prosjektet Orchestra2020 er å realisere framtidens digitale og grønne intermodale transportløsninger. Tester i operativ…