Sustainable, healthy and with a personal travel advice on your way to Campus Groningen. As of today, this is now available via the custom made online Mobility Portal of startup TripService. In the past six months, Tripservice has worked on the mobility challenge of Campus Groningen and Hive.Mobility. Tripservice takes on the challenge to not only provide campus visitors with an adequate travel advice for trips from door to door, but also to stimulate a responsible and conscious mobility choice. “After six months of developing ideas and testing behind the scenes, we can now launch the Campus Mobility Portal in a pilot and have it tested by consumers. We are very much looking forward to the first reactions and results”, says Wouter Giesen, Account manager at TripService. 

Thee mobility challenge is part of the Startup in Residence Northern Netherlands program, in which startups collaborate with organisations to work on innovative solutions for a societal issue.

Conscious travel behaviour

Together with Hive.Mobility, Campus Groningen has formulated a mobility challenge for the Startup in Residence program. Both organisations care about innovative and sustainable mobility solutions. The challenge was: “develop a system that enhances awareness regarding (responsible) travel behaviour and that stimulates people to make a responsible mobility choice”. For Tripservice, it was a challenge to not just develop a system that shows the fastest route from door to door, but to also give an insight in what would be the most healthy and most sustainable way to get to your destination. On top of that, the traveler has to be encouraged to make a sustainable and healthy choice in mobility. This means for instance, that a cyclist gets to see which bicycle parking is closest to your destination, making a healthy and sustainable choice easy.

The Mobility Portal in development for Campus Groningen, soon showed to be a complement to the Smart Map of Groningen Bereikbaar. This resulted in a collaboration: the Smart Map can also be consulted in the portal.

Testing ground for innovative solutions

As of today, the Mobility Portal is available for travels to Campus Groningen via https://campus.groningen.nl/mobilityportal. “Whether you travel on foot, by bike, with public transport or still by car to Campus Groningen, the Mobility Portal shows the most efficient, sustainable and healthy route and mode of transportation”, according to Wouter. Community Coordinator Irene Amsing of Campus Groningen is also enthusiastic about the launch of the pilot: “The mobility challenge is an interesting project, which allows us to start the transition to digital mobility management. It also shows our efforts on Campus Groningen to put the most sustainable and healthy mobility choice first. I am therefore very curious after the results and insights from the Mobility Portal”. After the end of the pilot phase (end October), the portal will be evaluated and adjusted as a result of the first user experiences.