CulturalRoad explores the role of Inclusivity in CCAM

The EU-funded project CulturalRoad puts equity at the heart of Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Mobility (CCAM) by exploring how inclusive design can ensure fair access for all users. In a series of articles the project’s consortium will cover the five pillars of its Five-Pointed Star Rating System developed to enhance societal acceptance of CCAM while promoting safe, efficient, and sustainable mobility. The fist article of the series is in fact dedicated to inclusivity.

The Inclusivity pillar encompasses a wide range of aspects to ensure equitable access to CCAM services, including accessibility, affordability, and digital accessibility, and the implementation of concrete measures to guarantee passenger security and data privacy. This requires the use of different methodologies adapted to each of them. Novel Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) will be defined to measure how CCAM-based mobility solutions take these dimensions into account and, therefore, to what extent they are equitable. in conclusion an Inclusivity KPI that considers cultural, geographical and exogenous diversity will finally be proposed.

CulturalRoad’s work on inclusivity is led by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). You can read the full entry detailing their and their partners’ approach here.