The EV Assist+ concept, as a technical innovation and a commercial proposition, was recently validated by means of a 12-week feasibility study, delivered in partnership with the Scottish Enterprise and Transport Scotland, East Lothian Council, Goss Consultancy Ltd, and a number of leading regional EV stakeholders.

1. Plan your trip here:

EV Assist+ trials are taking place currently, and include a pan-disabled panel of EV users. The survey is however open to anyone who wishes to participate. If you would like to participate, you must submit your response by the 10th of March. Simply enter your email address at the end of the survey to be entered into the EV Assist+ prize draw to win £300!

2. Complete the survey here:

The survey focuses on the following topics:

• EV user journey experience for people with accessibility needs
• Disabled EV user planning time
• Disabled EV user willingness to change route if a charge point becomes unavailable en-route
• Disabled EV user willingness to travel by EV (on long distance destination-based trips)
• Utilisation rates of the charge point network
• Chargepoint accessibility
• Chargepoint availability
• Non-EV user willingness to buy/lease an EV
• Return on investment for EV charge point operators adopting the EV Assist+ system if proven that disabled EV users are more willing to undertake an EV journey with the additional information provided by the tool.

The survey prize draw offer expires on 10 March 2022. For more information on GDPR-compliance and how your data will be processed please refer to: /terms/

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Step 1: Complete the pre-pilot survey:

Step 2: Use the travel assistant on one the following websites to plan a trip and create an EV Assist travel plan using one of the rapid charge points operated by ESB Energy in Coventry. You can find the EV Assist journey option when you plan a trip using the map embedded on any of the following web pages:

Simply enter your origin and destination and the travel assistant will offer you several journey options depending on your needs, including an “EV Assist” journey option. You can edit your travel details by changing the time and date of travel, current remaining range and maximum range of your EV, and the length of time you need to charge. If you select the EV Assist option and “Get a travel plan”, we will send you an email or SMS with details of your journey. Thirty minutes before your departure time you will also receive a notification with the real-time availability status of the charge point you are planning to use. Shortly we will be releasing additional features to allow you to reserve the charge point, start and stop a charging session.

Step 3: Complete the post-pilot survey of your experience for a chance to win a £50 voucher.

Click the link below for a demonstration of the feature:

How to use the EV Assist feature 

Offer expires on 20/02/2022. For more information on GDPR-compliance and how your data will be processed please refer to: /terms/

The EVASSIST project is funded by the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) in partnership with Innovate UK.

Content-Enhanced Wayfinding

Urban Tourism 5.0 delivers content-enhanced wayfinding using rich media and augmented reality hotspots. The interactive experiences can be launched directly from the Ģ����ý�ý.’ platform by clicking on the camera icon, which indicates a content hotspot.

Hotspots include cultural information, fun facts, images of places to visit and points of interest. The majority of the content can be accessed from anywhere, whilst planning a trip or en-route, but, specially commissioned augmented reality experiences are ‘geofenced’, meaning you have to be at a specific location to unlock them. Think Pokémon meets Lonely Planet!

The team behind the innovation, part-funded by the UK’s first region-wide 5G testbed,  (WM5G), is ‘Ģ����ý.’ (YST), creative and cultural storytellers, , geo-content distribution platform, , and digital media arts collective, . Urban Tourism 5.0 is expected to encourage people to plan trips to venues and events by enhancing visitors’ experiences with exclusive content and tailored wayfinding, not available on other platforms.

“It helps us promote active and sustainable travel choices”, explains Ģ����ý�ý.’ CEO, Chris Thompson, “by making the whole experience of out-of-home entertainment as much about the trip as the final destination, adding excitement en-route and delivering a fantastic sense of arrival.”

The bi-product of this enhanced interaction is additional visitor information, that venues, events, transport operators and regional authorities can use to improve service delivery, and to monitor, influence and mitigate visitor travel impact of the environment.

The Urban Tourism 5.0 survey results will help inform plans to add interactive content for major global venues and events, concerts and festivals, including more augmented reality experiences, curated soundtracks and even short-form documentaries.

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