An Integrated Information and Payment Platform

2 This report is a summary of ideas collected and developed by the author Anders Gullberg over many years of research on urban transport in general, and ICT and urban transport in particular, in the Vinnova-financed project " TRACS – Travel planners for sustainable cities, a multidisciplinary project at CESC 2010–2015 " 1 1 This is a revised and translated version of Gullberg, A. (2012) 'Så kan informationssamhällets landvinningar lösa stadstrafikens problem' (Using advances in the information society to resolve urban-transport problems) PLAN 66(5–6) pp. 64–71. It provides a forum for knowledge exchange and collaboration between industry, the public sector and research. Together with its partners, CESC conducts innovative research on ICT for sustainability aiming to contribute to a change of society in a sustainable direction. Abstract Transport in growing cities suffers from congestion and huge investment costs. It also degrades the environment. For the first time in history, advances in information and communication technology – ubiquitous mobile computing – now allow us to harness the vast transport overcapacity found in many cities throughout the world, and to optimise the use of transport infrastructure and public transport. This can be achieved by creating an Integrated Information and Payment Platform in Urban Transport (I 2 P 2 UT), open for all types of conveyance. The potential consumer, environmental and financial benefits of such a platform are as great as the institutional obstacles that stand in its way.