The Helsinki pilot dynamically influenced travellers’ route and mode choices in terms of sustainability and citizens’ well-being by investigating dynamic traffic restriction zones in the Helsinki West Harbour area.

The City of Helsinki’s innovation company, Forum Virium Helsinki (FVH), in cooperation with the project consortium and involving various stakeholders, led and supported the pilot in developing the concept. The pilot identified the requirements and interfaces for connecting the ACUMEN digital twin architecture, enabling seamless integration with analytics and AI-based multimodal traffic management tools.

Building on the Code the Streets project, the pilot linked the ACUMEN digital twin architecture to allow for seamless integration with analytics and AI-powered multimodal traffic management tools. It also used traffic simulation, taking into account last-mile logistics and other factors, alongside drone-collected data used for mobility analyses during different stages of the intervention and for calibrating the simulation.

Test users were offered alternative modes or routes via a traffic-related app. The pilot focused on testing the impact of soft measures on network-level traffic flows in different intervention phases, taking into account input from end-users, citizens and mobility-related societal considerations, including climate neutrality.