Shaping urban mobility

In October 2018, Jalon conducted its first autonomous vehicle user-experience test on the PMG test track in Blainville. The objective was to get a snapshot of the state (emotional, cognitive and attentive) of the user in a self-driving car, depending on the manoeuvres performed and the vehicle’s degree of autonomy. This experimentation raised such questions as:

• What types of experiences do we undergo in autonomous vehicles?
• What kinds of services could we eventually use in such vehicles?
• How should we envision the interior layout of these vehicles?

As part of self-driving shuttle testing at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium in the fall of 2018, the City of Montreal asked Jalon to develop various questionnaires and to analyze the results collected from workers, passengers and passersby in contact with or using the shuttle.

This May, the Ville de Montréal won the Smart Cities Challenge, a project led by Infrastructure Canada that provides $50 million in funding to develop various projects.

Under the direction of the Montreal Urban Innovation Lab, Jalon will be one of the partners at the helm of the mobility data hub.

Jalon will be responsible for delivering the digital platform and the valuation and visualization tools for mobility data. They will work with various partners to create this
solution and will mobilize the ecosystem to reach their set objectives.

The City of Montreal has asked Jalon to look into urban logistics and all the potential solutions to rethinking the way we supply cities and their residents. Jalon recently established a participatory approach that aims to mobilize stakeholders in the delivery of goods value chain. After reaching a consensus on the assessment, we set out to target the inconveniences and constraints relating to every kind of urban delivery. Jalon identified 26 potential solutions, including some that are currently undergoing feasibility studies.

This June, the Ville de Montréal announced the launch of an experimentation hub for urban delivery solutions on the site of the former bus terminal near the Berri-UQAM metro station.

This project is leveraging one of the solutions put forward as part of a Jalon-led mandate from the Ville in 2018 to mobilize industry players around urban logistics.

For this new phase, Jalon will again by guiding the city in the execution of a delivery pilot project which will be launched in the fall of 2019 with the key partners yet to be announced.

In 2018, Jalon held workshops and presented talks at various key events, including Movin’On, LA CoMotion, and Les Entretiens Jacques-Cartier. Jalon also regularly hosts international delegations—from Germany, among others—seeking to further international collaboration.

The first edition of the Jalon Mobility Awards will be held on October 17, 2019. See the section on the awards for complete details.

Through $1.2 million in funding from the Ministère de l’Économie et de l’Innovation, Jalon is currently working on providing a virtual space for the sharing and cross-referencing of open and private mobility data to benefit researchers and businesses seeking to develop new products and services.

Jalon has the mandate to coordinate the activities of this multidisciplinary project, the aim of which is to better understand the attachment that Quebecers have to their individual cars. As part of le Chantier, strategies will be deployed to get as many people as possible to take action to ensure our transition to sustainable mobility. The Chantier has a dual mission that includes research and experimentation.