Hiriko

HIRIKO takes part on “Intelligent Cities Consortium (ICC)”

Today Vitoria witnesses the setting up of the Intelligent City Consortium (ICC), a space for collaboration between the most prestigious international institutions in terms of sustainable mobility that is to counsel big urban centres in the planet on how to implement the philosophy of the Hiriko project in order to solve their growing problems of pollution, traffic and power supply. The new Consortium is initially made up of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Media Lab (USA), the London School of Economics Enterprise (GB), InnoZ (D), together with the Basque entities DENOKINN (E) and AFYPAIDA (E). ICC also counts with the support of Carbon Care Asia for its operations in Hong Kong.

The consortium has been constituted today in EPSILON EUSKADI, in the Álava technological Park, with the presence of Kent Larson, Florian Lennert, Albert Lai, Daniel Hinkeldin, Carlos Fernández Isoird and Iñigo Antia, among other partners and collaborators.

The main objective of ICC is the identification of the key technology and the necessary management models in order to implement new integrated mobility systems in urban and regional environments. “ICC will be working in close collaboration with the cities and regions of the world in order to research the potential for sustainable development, oriented towards the user” says Fdz. Isoird, director of Denokinn.

Isoird points out that in ICC there are “ privileged references in the world of research and in corporations in order to explore the integration of mobility solutions within public transport propitiated wider strategies for sustainable cities that the most advanced countries are now designing”.

Cities like Hong Kong, Boston, Amsterdam, Barcelona or Berlin are making every effort in the development of new internal mobility designs parallel to the creation of spaces destined to the development of social activities. “First there are the people and the cities and then from the design of their needs comes a new respectful vehicles that our limited to the inevitable trips and combinations with public transport. There lies the objective of the companies and institutions grouped in the ICC Consortium that I designing the new cities of the 21st century”, adds Isoird.

In particular, the new Consortium on the ICC intelligent city will research details such as the requisites for quick charging of the new cars, Telematic networks in specific local contexts and will also integrate individual electric mobility solutions with public systems.

The ICC Consortium will define business and service models of four users and for technological infrastructures. Other aspects of its work would make reference to land planning and traffic management strategies in order to apply them to “a la carte” solutions; they will search for the opportunities to integrate the application of the “eMobility” concept in relation with sustainable housing and the design of cities; and they will estimate the technological needs and opportunities to connect mobility applications with (Super Smart) local systems of renewable and sustainable energy focusing on the opportunities to integrate applications in current lifestyles.

ICC is committed with a group of cities from throughout the world in the organisation of strategic viability studies. Initially, such studies will be developed in Hong Kong, Berlin and Amsterdam. The components of the new Consortium of intelligent cities are identifying a reduced number of strategic partners for the development of its platform throughout the planet.

Under the attendants to the working sessions are architects Kent Larson and Ryan Chin, economist Florian Lennert, Daniel Hilkedin, Ignacio Alcalde, Shabin Raj, Indy Johar, Adam  P. Nixon, Daniel Gerhard or Taco Lens. The Metropolis Foundation, Ecoenergen Osterreich, Epsilon Euskadi, Denokinn, Maser, Guardian, Megatech, Forging Products, Carbon Care Asia, Sapa, BRW, Ingeteam, Transitia, Idom, Crea Futur, Better City, Cluster Brasil, or DGC are about some of the industrial and university corporations that are following this initiative.

“Now that we are speaking of designing new cities, it is important to know in the tail of the specific needs and objectives of each city, and accurately estimate final user demand of urban mobility services, and to anticipate design and infrastructure capacity for recharging and integrating search services in the urban mobility systems which now exist, together with all the investments and costs that will require”, explains Fernández Isoird.