Funding:

Project Acronym: ATE

Project Name:  ATE - Aliança para a Transição Energética | Plataforma para a Gestão e Operação de Redes Multimodais de Transporte

Activity years: 2023 - 2026

Funding: PRR | Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação, I.P.

Budget: 157,04 milhões €

Reference:  02/C05-i01.02/2022.PC644914747-00000023

Host Institution: Efacec Engenharia de Sistemas, SA

Researchers (ISEL):

José Simão (Researcher in charge/ISEL) ORCID: 0000-0002-6564-593X

Nuno Leite ORCID: 0000-0001-6328-3579

Nuno Datia ORCID: 0000-0003-1600-0227

Matilde Pato ORCID: 0000-0001-8976-7651

António Serrador ORCID: 0000-0002-7554-3312

Nuno Cota ORCID: 0000-0001-7023-7044

Nuno Cruz ORCID: 0000-0001-8570-8670

João Casaleiro ORCID: 0000-0002-4722-0954

Description:

This project aims to develop a Platform for the integrated multimodal management of LRTs and buses, providing multimodal regulation and optimized connections management between different transportation modes (rail, buses, river passenger ships, micro-mobility, etc.) and real-time information for passengers, allowing a seamless journey. The platform will make available the following functionalities:

• Light Rail Transport (LRT) fleet management
• Bus fleet management, including electrical buses
• Multimodal regulation (LRT and buses)
• Real-time interface with other transportation modes 
• Operational dashboards
• Creation, simulation, and management of demand-responsive transportation (DRT) services
• Optimized connection management (railway, LRT, buses, DRT lines, river passenger, etc.)
• Driver management
• Operational data analysis, e.g.:

          o Visualization of different operational parameters, per line, service, transportation mode, vehicle, etc.;
          o Simulation and optimization of the metro/LRT operation, bus operation and multimodal;
          o Prediction of network behaviour to forecast traffic and passenger flow, helping decision making (operational scenarios);
          o Simulation of traffic flow for optimization;
          o Data analysis to predict and anticipate traffic flows and the impact on user/passenger journeys, providing users with options to complete their journeys,

• LRT depot management system (allocations, operational changes during the day, programmed movements, destination/parking, technical preparation management, vehicle maintenance, driver management, management of non-scheduled occurrences);
• Bus depot management system (allocations, operational changes during the day, programmed movements, destination/parking, technical preparation management, vehicle maintenance, driver management, management of non-scheduled occurrences);
• Management of seamless integration of electrical vehicles in the fleet and charging management, according to different optimized operational scenarios;
• Real-time passenger information, including journey planning;
• Incident management;
• Simulation and operation replay, for auditing and training purposes;
• Infrastructure monitoring (technical supervision);
• Eco-driving module for railway and buses.