InREAKT honored as a flagship project for intelligent mobility

The initiative "Germany - Land of Ideas" and the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure have on June 28, 2017 awarded the German Mobility Prize to the project "InREAKT - Integrated Aid Response Chains to Increase the Safety of Public Transport" coordinated by the STUVA as an outstanding digital innovation for a safe mobility. State Secretary Dorothee Bär presented the award in a ceremony at the Federal Ministry of Transport in Berlin (fig. 1). InREAKT will provide an innovative digital solution to make mobility safer and more reliable. It is an interdisciplinary developed and IT-based system that will improve the emergency management in public transport in the future. 

About the project InREAKT

Imagine you need urgent help at a stop or in the bus or train - and nobody notices it!

Violence, property damage and vandalism can make passengers feel uncomfortable or keeps them completely from using public transport, especially at night. And also employees of transport companies can get into safety-critical situations or medical emergencies. Effective emergency management is therefore very important in order to increase confidence in public transport. This is the aim of the InREAKT system, which was developed in a project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

The core idea is the IT-supported process of an integrated help response chain, which consists of recognizing a person in need, reporting a detected situation, communicating reaction forces and intervening at the event site. The project is based fully on digital technology: for example, an optical sensor system for detecting the situation (fig. 2), a software-based event management system with recommended actions, which supports the control center of the transport company, and a specially programmed employee app (fig. 3). All technical work was supported by interdisciplinary socio-scientific accompanying research to ensure acceptance by passengers.

InREAKT provides improved emergency management in public transport as well as increased sense of security through the development of integrated help response chains. The solution creates trust among passengers and employees and thus strengthens public transport. Now more partners are needed in practice to implement a pilot application and to further develop the system. Interested transport companies are kindly requested to contact www.inreakt.de via the contact form.

About the German Mobility Price

In the competition year 2017, the initiative "Germany - Land of Ideas" and the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure awarded the German Mobility Prize to groundbreaking best practice projects focusing on safety. According to the jury, InREAKT has shown how the digital transformation of mobility can be advanced so that people and goods can travel even smarter and safer in the future. A panel of 16 experts chaired by Dorothee Bär, MP, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, selected the ten prize-winner projects of the competition. Around 170 start-ups, companies, associations and research institutions applied for the nationwide award with their projects throughout Germany.

"Germany is the mobility country No. 1! With the German Mobility Award we promote moving innovations made in Germany. Because with the best ideas, we will become a pioneer for Mobility 4.0! ", said Alexander Dobrindt, Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure. 

"The winners show how digital innovations can make mobility even safer. The people behind the projects make an important contribution to the sustainability of our country with their creativity and commitment, "said Dieter Kempf, President of the Federation of German Industries e. V. (BDI) and President of Germany - Land of Ideas e. V.

With the German Mobility Award, the initiative "Germany - Land of Ideas" and the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure make intelligent mobility solutions and digital innovations publicly visible. The following members of the "Digital Networks and Mobility" platform of the Digital Summit support the German Mobility Award: Continental Automotive GmbH, Deutsche Bahn AG, Deutsche Telekom AG, Ericsson GmbH, Esri Germany GmbH, Huawei Technologies Deutschland GmbH and the Association of German Transport Companies e.V. (VDV).

Weitere Informationen unter:

www.deutscher-mobilitätspreis.de

www.inreakt.de

• 11.01.2017 Safety and emergency management in public transport