Detailed description (English): SOCIETAL Travel CIC launches its website to provide information regarding this new company formed to apply innovative thinking to tackling challenges in mobility, creating solutions to deliver logistic and social benefits. ‘SOCIETAL’ gets its name from the acronym Social Enterprise Commissioning for Infrastructure, Enterprise, Transport and Logistics.
SOCIETAL Travel CIC is a Social Enterprise, created to tackle transportation challenges by analysing travel data and applying transformative innovative solutions . Expanding on work carried out by the University of Northampton LIST (Logistics, Infrastructure, Supply and Transport) Institute for the UK government (DfT)-funded Total Transport initiative, SOCIETAL’s founding partners are the University of Northampton and Northamptonshire County Council.
SOCIETAL aims to further the University’s social impact; targeting the social benefits within its work, delivering empowerment through mobility, well-being from clean air/reduced congestion and healthy transport options, and improved access- generating employment opportunities in key local areas.
The field of transformational transport systems research and deployment is developing fast, and strategic directions such as MaaS (Mobility as a Service) and a focus on the role of the IoT (Internet of Things) can be clearly seen. In addition to incorporating these themes, SOCIETAL introduces Mobility as a Societal Solution (MaSS) to create a practical impact on people’s travel options.
SOCIETAL has been formed at a critical period for transport systems; not only transport modes- private/public, personal/shared, car, bus, rail, cycle, walking- but the integrity and sustainability of their operation model is under increasing scrutiny. Both financial and environmental accountability inform SOCIETAL’s research, leading to methodologies that can have local and global impact.
Target group(s): Local and national government, transport operators, logistics and transport researchers and education providers, transport procurement and commissioning bodies, community transport operators, public and private sector transport customers. Potential partners and collaborators.
Objectives: To provide information on the activities of SOCIETAL Travel CIC.
Expected Outcomes: The launch of the website will enable an understanding of SOCIETAL Travel CIC's vision and mission, contact with potential partners and collaborators, links to like-minded organisations, companies and research institutes.
Going forward, the website will feature details of SOCIETAL's projects and act as an information hub for all related activities.
Partner: University of Northampton LIST (Logistics, Infrastructure, Supply and Transport) Institute; Northamptonshire County Council.