MOBILITY LAB TO PURCHASE EQUIPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MORE THAN ONE MILLION EUROS TO IMPROVE MOBILITY IN ARABA AND VITORIA-GASTEIZ
This action will provide the experimental spaces that the Foundation has been developing since it was created as a center of innovation in urban mobility and logistics
The Mobility LAB Foundation, promoted by the Provincial Council of Alava and the Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council, has announced today the acquisition of new equipment and infrastructures for more than one million euros to be installed in different experimental spaces with the aim of improving mobility in Alava and Vitoria-Gasteiz. This action is in addition to other actions being carried out by the Mobility LAB Foundation since it was created as a center of innovation in urban mobility and logistics in the historical territory of Alava, such as, for example, the Innovation Lab experimentation spaces.
The equipment and infrastructures acquired will go, specifically, to the high-capacity roads of Alava; active mobility, micro-mobility, road safety and accessibility and intelligent public transport in the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz; Urban Distribution of Goods (DUM) and parking management in the central superblock and in the OTA and Low Emission Zones of Vitoria-Gasteiz.
In total, there are five contracts, with a value of more than one million euros, which will allow, on the one hand, the supply and installation of road traffic gauging and classification equipment and operating software for the road network of the Historical Territory of Araba/Álava, to the high-capacity roads, specifically the AP-1.
Another of the actions to be undertaken by the Mobility Lab Foundation is the supply, installation and start-up of the Atmospheric Variables Sensors (SEVAC weather stations) on the roads of the Historical Territory of Alava, which will provide data on the different roads in the different seasons of the year.
Likewise, another of the contracts proposed by the Foundation contemplates thesupply, installation and support services of intelligent cameras to monitor the high capacity roads and the different accesses and modes of transport in the surroundings of the traffic circles of América Latina and the accesses to Júndiz (C/ Zurrupitieta, C/ Lermandabidea and C/Mendigorritxu).
Likewise, another contract is included for the supply, installation and support services in the infrastructure that allows the monitoring of parking and loading and unloading spaces by means of intelligent cameras that allow to know the intensity of use, possible infractions, management of reservations, in different points of the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Finally, the last contract deals with a very important aspect in the winter season, which is the acquisition of support services for the updating and renewal of the NIEVES application of the Information System for the Management of Winter Road Safety Resources of the Conservation and Road Safety Section of the Araba Foral Road Network.
The Provincial Councillor of Alava, Ramiro González, stressed that “this project is key for Alava and Vitoria in our commitment to a well-connected Territory and that of an industrial and logistics Territory. It is the logical continuation of projects already underway, such as high-capacity intelligent transport or the conversion of Foronda airport into a logistics hub”. In this sense, he pointed out that “we aspire to achieve a leading position at world level among medium-sized cities and territories through the use of innovative and sustainable solutions from the hand of first-class global partners”.
In the opinion of the Mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Maider Etxebarria, these five contracts, valued at more than one million euros, “will allow us to analyze the mobility of Vitoria-Gasteiz and the territory by taking advantage of technology. We are talking about innovation, seeking solutions in real environments and cooperation to propose the mobility of the future”. For Etxebarria, “experimentation allows us to find solutions taking into account emerging technological innovations, the necessary commitment to sustainable mobility and the possibilities of creating quality jobs and attracting talent”.
At the presentation, the director of the Mobility LAB Foundation, Iñigo Bilbao, pointed out that “this equipment will not only help to improve traffic and mobility management in Alava, but as Mobility LAB it will allow us to meet two key objectives: to equip our eight experimental spaces with technology that allows us to monitor the tests that are carried out before, during and after and, secondly, to feed the mobility and logistics Data Space that we are building with the support of the Alava Calculation Center”.