Predit: research, experimentation and innovation
Posted in Models, RDAG by Kate Archdeacon on December 9th, 2008
This information is part of research into case studies provided by Liz Boulton, Logistick, at the recent Sustainable Freight Seminar.
Predit is a French programme of research, experimentation and innovation in land transport, started by the ministries in charge of research, transport, environment and industry. It is not so much a case study as a methodology or a project management system.
Predit has multiple levels of governance and a diverse range of foci which are connected but cover specific and different areas. Two of the groups are directly involved with transport: “Mobility, territories and sustainable development” and “Logistics and Merchandise Transport”.
The programme promotes collaboration between the private and public sector; it creates proposals which are then applied, tested and adjusted; and it makes its reports available to the public. It operates at a variety of technical-expertise levels. It assesses projects on four different criteria – societal (urban environmental impacts/gains) benefits, economic benefits, social benefits and environmental benefits.
In its third iteration, the objectives were to ensure the sustained mobility of people and goods, increase the safety of transportation systems and reduce environmental impacts. Predit 4 launched in May 2008.
