About PHOEBE

The EU-funded Predictive Approaches for Safer Urban Environment consortium (known as PHOEBE) brings together the inter-disciplinary power of traffic simulation, road safety assessment, human behaviour, mode shift and induced demand modelling and mobility data into a harmonised, prospective assessment framework for road safety. The PHOEBE framework combines research, data and innovative tools and models to simulate and forecast the safety impact of disruptive changes, transitions or scenarios across urban transport networks, with a particular focus on vulnerable road users’ safety. The 3.5-yearlong PHOEBE project will apply and refine the framework in real-world scenarios across three pilot cities, Athens (GR), Valencia (ES) and West Midlands (UK).

The challenge

Urban traffic systems are increasingly dynamic. They are regularly ‘disrupted’ by new means of transport, new infrastructure, new technologies, and regulatory and behavioural changes. This presents challenges for transport managers in planning for these changes, as well as in achieving the ambitious EU-target of zero road deaths and serious injuries by 2050. 

The Phoebe Plan

PHOEBE will develop an integrated, dynamic human-centred predictive safety assessment framework for all road user types in urban areas. This will be achieved by bringing together traffic simulation, road safety assessment, data concerning human behaviour and mode shift, as well as demand modelling of new and emerging mobility data.

Vulnerable road users, such as women, the elderly, users of active mobility or emerging mobility solutions, as well as physically impaired people, need special attention from the city authorities. Therefore, the unique PHOEBE plan to develop integrated modelling and simulation tools to help cities to plan urban road safety measures.

Overall, the results of PHOEBE can be used as a blueprint by other European cities to developed their own knowledge products, such as socioeconomic analysis model, urban road safety assessment, human behaviour and choice modelling.

Project Partners:

EVROPSKI INSTITUT ZA OCENJEVANJE CEST – EURORAP

ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN AIMSUN SLU

POLIS – PROMOTION OF OPERATIONAL LINKS WITH INTEGRATED SERVICES,  ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE

FACTUAL CONSULTING

UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA

OSEVEN SINGLE MEMBER PRIVATE COMPANY

FLOOW THE FLOOW LIMITED

iRAP INTERNATIONAL ROAD ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME

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