The Public Transport Innovation Awards honour the best innovations by manufacturers, operators, and service companies in four categories:
Operating and ticketing systems
- ITS: passenger information and services
- Accessibility, fittings, facilities, and design
- Energy and the environment.
A jury of independent experts made up of mobility professionals from various bodies (mobility authorities, France’s Study and Investigation Centre for Risks, the Environment, Mobility and Development (CEREMA), the French Transport Ministry Directorate-General for Infrastructure, Transport, and Mobility (DGITM), France’s National School of Public Works (ENTPE) and its National Federation of Transport User Associations (FNAUT) and Paris-Saclay and Gustave-Eiffel Universities) met on 11 September to examine the entries.
The winners 2024 are :
KUBA: Kubapay
Kubapay is a ticketing solution designed to facilitate access to public transport: a hybrid platform that incorporates all key ticketing functions as well as managing card-based ticketing (CBT), account-based ticketing (ABT) and open payment (EMV), thus delivering a SaaS solution that combines the benefits of digitalisation with the conventional management of traditional tickets. The approach facilitates local multimodal transport and interoperable ticketing solutions.
KEOLIS Besançon Mobilités: Validomètre
Fraud is the bane of public transport operators. Keolis operates the Ginko bus and tram network in Besançon, where it is taking a new approach to the problem using technology combined with behavioural science and ‘nudges’. The Validomètre displays the proportion of passengers who have validated their ticket via a fun interface designed to encourage them to do so: at each stop, when the driver opens the bus doors, the Validomètre is displayed on the information screens. Once passengers have boarded, the number of new passengers (derived from the metering system) and the number of validations (derived from ticketing data from the validators) is displayed on the vehicle’s on-board screen, revealing how many passengers have not validated their ticket.
KEOLIS Rennes Métropole: Handimap: open data and digital innovation facilitating PRM access
Improvement in all forms of mobility is a priority for Rennes Métropole. The aim is to enhance mobility, in particular for persons with reduced mobility such as those with disabilities, the elderly and young parents with pushchairs.
Keolis and Someware have adapted their Handimap route finder to local specifics. Handimap suggests accessible routes taking into account three types of information: pavements, paths, alleys, public transport, etc.; on-site conditions (gradients, steps, cobblestones, pavement widths, etc.); and any on-street events such as roadworks logged in the database.
to dialogue with persons with hearing difficulties via interpreters.
MOBICOOP: Coloc’Auto
Coloc’Auto is a platform that provides access to shared vehicles in rural environments. The solution is an additional enabler for diversified mobility offerings in sparsely-populated areas alongside ride-sharing and organised hitchhiking. Coloc’Auto can help to decrease purchases of new and used cars and cut CO2 impacts thanks to more rational use of each vehicle.
