Innovative measures for smoothing peak demand and efficient capacity use

Traffic demand peaks are associated with high costs in the road and public transport sector, because infrastructure and vehicle resources are designed for them. From the perspective of the transport systems users, it also leads to a loss of comfort or longer travel times that are difficult to calculate. Measures to influence the demand for transport in terms of time represent an alternative to adapting the supply of mobility services to demand.

In the future, new mobility service providers (e.g. sharing) will also be affected by capacity bottlenecks. On the other hand, Mobility as a Service and the associated digital networking between mobility services and transport demand offer new possibilities for influencing temporal or modal behavioural decisions in order to avoid congestion.

The aim of the IMaG:NE project is to collect and evaluate existing and future measures for smoothing traffic demand peaks in order to derive recommendations for policy-makers, mobility service providers and infrastructure operators.
So far, there is no comprehensive cross-sectoral and intermodal evaluation of measures to smooth peak demand. 
The inclusion of measures in the context of Mobility as a Service and the consideration of future requirements determined by means of scenario techniques underline the innovativeness of the project.

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