Children’s Independent Mobility

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

Active and autonomous mobility is fundamental for the physical, social, cognitive and emotional development of children and contributes to forming a positive relationship between the child and their city
CLIMB aims to render the mobility of children safe, social and fun, positively exploiting the neighborhood as a smart community (involving family, volunteers and school) and information research results as transformative technologies
CLIMB integrates technology and advanced IT solutions (e.g., Internet of Things, Internet of Services, Gamification), placing them in service to the community to provide a more participative, effective and dynamic management of children’s mobility.

PIEDIBUS SMART

MOBILE APPLICATION
Provided to volunteers to simplify the daily operation of the Walking Bus itself:

Organization of volunteer shifts and substitutions
Maintaining the bus route and sequence of stops
Tracking the children’s attendance in the daily diary
Maintaining contact information of all parents

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SMART TAG

Smart, wearable devices use proximity sensors to allow the automatic detection of children joining the walking bus and support the automatic completion of the walking bus daily diary.

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KIDS GO GREEN

The kilometers travelled by each child using sustainable transportation, e.g., by foot, bike or on the schoolbus, contribute to progress on a virtual, educational journey to places in the real word. Stops along the way allow the discovery of cities, countries, and places, conveying the value of the collective sustainable kilometers travelled to date.

The game is supported by a platform that captures the sustainable kilometers of each child, managing progress in the game and, through a Web App, displaying the achievements on a multimedia, interactive map. The integration of the App and the “Smart Walking Bus” allows the automatic collection of the kilometers completed by children and volunteers of the Smart Walking Bus.

PRELIMINARY RESULTS

SCHOOL YEAR 2017-2018

CLIMB solutions are currently used by several schools in the Trento area: 3 “smart walking buses” are running (in Cognola, Meano and Vela) and 11 Kids Go Green games are being played within seven primary schools, for a total of 600 students and 100 teachers.

EXPERIMENTATION IN VELA

Starting in the 2016/17 school year, the “San Vigilio” primary school in Vela, Italy adopted the “Smart Walking Bus” on three routes. The entire school, a total of 95 children, also participated in a virtual walk with the Kids Go Green game, traveling over 8000 from Vela to their partner school in Kangole, Uganda, giving the children the opportunity to discovery Italy, Greece, Egypt, and many African countries.

EXPERIMENTATION IN MEANO

The Blue Line of the Walking Bus at the “De Carli” primary school in Meano, Italy adopted the “Smart Walking Bus” solution in 2015. A total of 40 children and 22 volunteers were involved in the first experiment, working alongside FBK researchers in the planning and realization of the first “Smart Walking Bus”.

AWARDS

Honourable Mention at CHI'19 - May 2019

L'articolo "A Walk on the Child Side: Investigating Parents’ and Children’s Experience and Perspective on Mobile Technology for Outdoor Child Independent Mobility", autori
Michela Ferron, Chiara Leonardi, Paolo Massa, Gianluca Schiavo, Amy L. Murphy, Elisabetta Farella, che sarà presentato alla conferenza internazionale CHI 2019 (ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) in Maggio, ha ricevuto l'honourable mention.
Il paper descrive lo studio collegato al progetto CLIMB volto ad indagare i processi di appropriazione e le prospettive di bambini, genitori e volontari riguardo alla tecnologia impiegata nel Pedibus Smart. L'articolo discute inoltre i rischi e le potenzialità dell'impiego della tecnologia per lo sviluppo di pratiche di mobilità indipendente dei bambini, proponendo una serie di riflessioni e raccomandazioni per il design di queste tecnologie.

Climate KIC URBAN CHALLENGE FERRARA "WWW"
CLIMB won the CLIMATE KIC URBAN CHALLENGE - Ferrara (Italy). Urban Challenges initiatives are organized by EIT Climate-KIC with the objective of accelerating European cities' transition to a low-carbon future.

Trentino Startup - 13 gennaio 2018: Urban challenge Ferrara: vince FBK con un progetto per la mobilità dei più piccoli

G7ALLERY - G7 TRASPORTI
CLIMB is one of the seven best practices, among more than 400 submitted projects, selected to represent Italy within the "G7 Transport" in Cagliari, on 20-21 June 2017.

Magazine FBK - 19 giugno 2017:FBK ambasciatrice dell'innovazione al G7 Trasporti di Cagliari con il progetto "CLIMB" sulla mobilità autonoma dei bambini

Stream24 Il Sole 24 Ore - 10 luglio 2017: Bimbi...muoversi! Climb, il progetto FBK che ha conquistato i G7

PREMIO COMUNI VIRTUOSI
Thanks to the CLIMB project, the Comune di Trento received an important national recognition with the award from the “Associazione Comuni Virtuosi” (Associazione of Virtuous Communities) in December 2016, being classified first in the category of “mobilita’ sostenibile” (sustainable mobility).

Trentino - 20 dicembre 2016: Il piedibus hi-tech da a Trento il premio comuni virtuosi

il Dolomiti - 21 dicembre 2016: Trento il premio comuni virtuosi la mobilita sostenibile