Proven mobility apps for municipal campaigns
Ready for cities to reward citizens and drive change
For free-form initiatives (use eBikes, take the bus, rest your car etc.)
Easy to set up, no prerequisites __
Cities create and manage campaigns themselves
Apps for simple quantitative collection of times, distances, number of trips
Focus on personal awareness & improvements
Complemented by campaigns/challenges
Top-lists and gamification (badges)
Fully facebook-integrated application
Citizens use facebook-web-app or mobile apps
Always-on tracking of traffic behaviour
Support for ‘good’ travel decisions
Rewards in individual Rewards-Webshop
City-specific optimization of intelligent tracking
Initial concept and preparation recommended
Details & Background
Zwitch
zwitch allows cities and organisations to promote campaigns or services that motivate citizens to use smarter modes of transport for their daily trips.
And it is that easy: Cities or organisation register and create an “incentive scheme”, for example “For every 10km you use an eBike, you receive 10 incentive points”.
By publishing the scheme, citizens can use the zwitch app on iOS or Android to document trips with the supported mode of transport. The app tracks the mode of transport used and the actual distance and counts incentive points based on the underlying incentive scheme.
CommuteGreener
Commute Greener is a free Facebook app for Desktop, iOS and Android running on the EMPOWER mobility services infrastructure and tapping into the Facebook community as potential users.
The general idea of Commute Greener is to enter your normal commuting pattern as a baseline and then to make improvements against your baseline. Commute Greener does thus not make use of automated tracking and improvements need to be manually reported by the user once they occur.
By making improvements the user
+ gains incentive points
+ contributes to sponsored challenges
+ raises his/her social reputation by sharing with other users
+ becomes aware of the impact his/her improvements make (CO2 reduction and other indicators)
Find more information here.
Smart
SMART (Self Motivated And Rewarded Travel) is a free App for citizens. SMART is a multi-modal travel assistant that rewards sustainable travel behaviour. Rewards can be gained by individual travellers taking on personal or group challenges to travel sustainably. The App tracks fully automatically the travel behaviour of a user. So a reward is never missed! Moreover, the user gains direct insight into his/her individual travel patterns and impact on the environment. An integrated Appshop allows SMART users to redeem their rewards in (discounts on) local products and services. A web based-management portal allows city administrators to define and manage challenges in a flexible and powerful way and in line with city priorities and objectives. Moreover the management portal gives multi-modal statistics and heatmaps of how people travel in the city. SMART: a powerful tool to create a win-win situation between individual life styles and associated travel behaviour, and societal challenges and city goals. Take a look at the app here
Pricing
For up to 5.000 active users and more
Zwitch
Self-service city registration
Self-service campaigns
Self-service campaign & user administration
Apps for iOS & Android
Support & Maintenance
500 Euro /month
(+ optional support & services)
CommuteGreener
Facebook web app
Facebook apps for iOS & Android
Up to 5 campaigns
Gamification
Support & Maintenance
200 Euro /month
(+ optional support & services)
Smart
Apps for iOS & Android
(+ campaigns)
(+ rewards web shop)
(+ city specific tracking optimization)
Support & Maintenance
2000 Euro / month
(+ extra cost for set-up/customization)
About us
The EMPOWER consortium of Horizon 2020
In our cities, many alternatives to individual car use already exist such as cycling, carpooling, public transit, electric vehicles and so on but why don’t more people use them? As travellers, how often do we sit in a traffic jam, frustrated and late for an appointment? As policy makers and transport planners, how do we encourage people to perceive these alternatives as being realistic options?
This website is an outcome of the EMPOWER project. EMPOWER sets out to substantially reduce the use of conventionally fuelled vehicles (CFV) in cities and recognises that a step change in driver behaviour is needed to improve urban traffic flows, increase air quality and reduce CO2 emissions and oil consumption. Adopting a ‘reward rather than punishment’ approach, EMPOWER will explore the use of positive incentives delivered through smart phone technologies and the web to persuade people to make modest shifts in their transport choices.
Funded by the European Commission’s Horizon2020 programme, the project combines empirical research with practical implementation in four Living Lab Cities and seven Take-Up Cities and Communities. Get involved as a Follower City or organisation, look out for the EMPOWER Toolkit and help EMPOWER reach 1 million people.
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