Detailed description (English): Inclusive rural mobility pilot project; through the transfer of urban innovation and community self-organisation, the aim was to minimise the use of and dependence on polluting private vehicles in Alto Deba -Eskoriatza-. The idea was to organise a Taxi bus experience on demand: taxi-bus with co-payment and protocols for personalised and shared journeys. In a region in which intercity buses are the only means of public transport that serves them, with a very dispersed rural area in which old rural neighbourhoods, which account for just over 11% of the population of the municipality and have lost importance in the municipality as a whole, are located at a distance of between 2 to 5 km from the urban centre and at a difference in height of 200 metres from it, and with the aim of guaranteeing the right to sustainable mobility to a more vulnerable segment of the population (the elderly and children).
Detailed description (original language): There were different phases;
1st quarter of the year: MEETINGS with key institutions and agents.
2nd Quarter DEFINING THE initial CONDITIONS of the service: pick-up and drop-off times, stops, journey time and fuel consumption (cost of the taxi service) digital survey in two languages and physical meetings with almost 100 participants.
3rd Quarter COMMUNICATION OF THE PILOT, the financing contracts with the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and the contract with the operators were managed, the communication materials and registration forms were prepared, the activities were disseminated among the residents of the municipality and associations.
4th, the EXECUTION OF THE SHARED TAXI PILOT was carried out: from 27 September to 3 December; together with real-time monitoring and evaluation of the results obtained. There were a total of 10 weeks in three different blocks of 3 weeks each to explore different options. Four local taxis were used. After the pilot, a final face-to-face session was held to collect information, close, evaluate and draw conclusions and compile all the material for the justification reports and final reports.
Target group(s): The proposed solution has always pursued a collective rural mobility alternative to reduce dependence on and use of the polluting private vehicle. Ensuring the inclusion of vulnerable population groups in the design and implementation of solutions that affect their quality of life, as well as offering services focused on their needs, is one of its main objectives. Target population groups such as young people without a driving licence or older people with less mobility have enjoyed the services offered, but people who usually use their car have not been able to give it up in order to share collective journeys.
Objectives: The taxi pilot was conceived as a SHARED AND COLLECTIVE MOBILITY system, which implied on the one hand, of course, co-designing and coordinating the taxi service and its conditions, but also a CULTURAL CHANGE in the use of transport and individual mobility of the residents of the hamlets and parishes of Eskoriatza. This collective mobility service sought to reduce the use of polluting private vehicles by means of predetermined stops and routes in which the residents, by sharing the journey, would contribute to the reduction of polluting emissions, the use of private cars and the space consumed, generate intergenerational and inter-territorial links that would result in an improvement in social cohesion, while at the same time linking the valley between the urban centre and the rural areas.
Partner: VIC, Incubator of Citizen Initiatives (company); Eskoriatza town council and taxi´s companys.
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