Urban Public Administration and Services innovation for Innovative Urban Mobility Management and Policy
Motivated by the world-wide shared desire and need for more efficient, reliable and environmentally sustainable urban transport, the U-PASS project investigates how to improve the benefits of transport, while limiting its downsides. The project aims to offer innovations in the design of new services and policies in urban transport, with a focus on policies and services such as tradable credits schemes, automated vehicles, electric driving, ride sharing, car sharing, and cycling. The project studies short-run behavioural impacts through real-life experimental studies in both China and Europe, and long-run implications through advanced urban transport modelling approaches.
The collaboration between Chinese and European top institutes - combined with applications in both parts of the world - gives a great opportunity for cross-fertilization, comparative study, and exploitation of diversity for the purpose of generalizing and transferring insights to be gathered.
TEAM
 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Prof. Erik Verhoef (Coordinator) - Dr. Vincent van den Berg - Dr. Jasper Knockaert - Dr. Paul Koster - Diego Candia Riquelme (PhD student)  University of Leeds - Prof. Simon Shepherd - Prof. Susan Grant-Muller - Dr. Caroline Mullen - Dr. Chandra Balijepalli  Beijing Jiaotong University (Institute of Transportation System Science and Engineering) - Dr. Meng Xu - Dr. Xianyu Wu | Beijing Jiaotong University (School of Economics and Management) - Dr. Yacan Wang - Dr. Zhigang Cao - Dr. Lingling Xiao - Dr. Huiyu Zhou - Dr. Jingjuan Jiao  Zheijang University - Dr. Xiqun (Michael) Chen  Beijing Transport Insitute - Dr. Kai Xian Project manager & contact person: Hadewijch van Delft Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam +(31) 20 5982191 |
Publications
Research articles
- Yu, Jiayi Joey, Christopher S. Tang, Zuo-Jun Max Shen, and Xiqun Michael Chen (2019). A Balancing Act of Regulating On-Demand Ride Services, Management Science, Published online in Articles in Advance 24 Oct 2019.
News articles
- Publication of Dr. Xiqun (Michael) Chen et al. in Management Science (April 2020)
- U-PASS member Dr. Xiqun (Michael) Chen attended TRB meeting in Washington DC (January 2020)
- U-PASS: Chinese-European research cooperation on improving urban transport (January 2020, blog / interview with Erik Verhoef on spatialeconomics.nl)
- Coauthored U-PASS Program Textbook "Markets and Governments: Transport Economic Theory and Applications" officially published (December 2019, translated from Beijing Jiaotong University web)
- U-PASS Program team member Prof. Erik Verhoef with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam leads a team to attend TSTE2019 (October 2019, translated from Beijing Jiaotong University web)
- U-PASS Project Team Members Developed Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation for Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicles (October 2019, translated from Beijing Jiaotong University web)
- Tradable breakfast coupon economics experiment under the U-PASS program well underway (July 2019, translated from Beijing Jiaotong University web)
- Environmental concerns behind the “lifting of ban” on new energy vehicles" (July 2019, translated from Beijing Jiaotong University web)
- Workshop on innovation in urban mobility management and policy takes place in Beijing (April 2019, translated from Beijing Jiaotong University web)
- The kickoff meeting of the Chinese project team of China-EU cooperation program “Urban public administration and service innovation: new-type urban mobility management and policy (U-PASS)” (March 2019, translated from Beijing Jiaotong University web)
Below: Working in times of Covid-19. The first U-PASS Zoom meeting was very successful with no less than 35 participants! (8 & 9 July, 2020)
About the project
U-PASS is part of the Sustainable and Liveable Cities and Urban Areas programme, jointly organized by nine European partners of JPI Urban Europe and the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), in order to encourage collaboration between researchers from Chinese and European universities, research institutes, research and technology organizations, cities and city planning departments, as well as European companies to develop knowledge, integrate solutions and decision support tools to a wide spectrum of urban challenges (Grant No. 71961137005).
U-PASS runs from March 2019 until July 2023.
All joint work will be done from March 2019 until March 2022.
