What is NICHES+?

The mission of NICHES+ is to promote innovative measures for making urban transport more efficient and sustainable and to move them from their current ‘niche’ position into a mainstream urban transport application.
The project looks into the details of 12 innovative measures, structured in 4 thematic areas:
Innovative concepts to enhance accessibility
Improved Accessibility through information and orientation
Travel training and personal assistance
Improving accessibility an neighbourhood level
Concepts for Efficient Planning and Use of Infrastructure and Interchanges
Enhanced city functions of interchanges
Coordination measures to enhance the transport function of interchanges
Infrastructure for innovative bus systems
Urban Traffic Management Centres
Mobile information services linked to Urban Traffic Management Centers
Environmental monitoring linked to urban traffic management centers
Public Private Partnerships for Urban Traffic Management Center deployment
Automated and Space Efficient Transport Systems
Cybernetic transport systems
Personal Rapid transit
High-tech Buses, advanced vehicles and dualmode systems
NICHES+ builds further on the NICHES project, and is funded by the DG Research under the 7FP. It will run from May 2008 until April 2011.
Niches will involve 7 champion cities in the implementation of innovative concepts.
The NICHES+ consortium consists of EUROCITIES, Newcastle University, TRANSMAN, TRG, and Rupprecht Consult. The project is coordinated by Polis. 
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