Meeting user needs

With the visits to the four pilot cities which took place between June and July, the CATCH work package 2 (principally conducted by Systematica and MRCMH) came to its conclusion. The aim of the visits was to collect feedback on, and finalise user requirements for, the open knowledge platform functionalities and architecture. This activity has been carried out in collaboration with practitioners and city stakeholders from Lisbon, London Borough of Hounslow, Odense and Rotterdam. A preliminary range of interactive options was presented to the audience during visits, then a discussion was held among stakeholders in order to gather precious observations and comments that will be used to finalise the platform design. In particular a video describing the platform architecture and its design guiding principles was shown during visits, together with preliminary use cases on two main interactive functionalities.

 

One functionality focuses on the positive links between reduced carbon transport systems and a range of wider benefits (specifically co-benefits on health, safety, time, budget, and other main challenges currently faced by cities). The other functionality focuses on core transportation performance indicators, upon which a self-assessment of one?s own city can be drawn. The final purpose of both functionalities is to engage cities and citizens in confronting their challenges and solutions with other similar contexts and individuals, to trigger motivation to change carbon emission patterns and to promote a low carbon culture in cities. All the activities conducted in WP2 will drive the definition of design guidelines that will outline the platform architecture, specify its functionalities and the relationship between them. The guidelines will also contain specification on the platform content management and integration protocols.

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