Corporate mobility management as a joint urban service
The innovation is primarily organisational and service-based, supported by mature technology from Signalton Teknoloji.
Six steps in every Living Lab
Both labs use the same core protocol with locally adapted content.
- 1
Map and baseline
Map municipal and organisational objectives, sites and multimodal accessibility; set the commuting baseline.
- 2
Identify barriers
Work with commuters, employers and mobility providers, including shift workers, carers and people without smartphones.
- 3
Agree a Compact
Reinforcing measures, named decision owners, resources, data-sharing conditions and review rules.
- 4
Deploy and adapt
Roll out the BICO service in stages: dashboards, route information, incentives and voluntary trip recording.
- 5
Compare outcomes
Behavioural, accessibility, equity and organisational outcomes, with staggered rollout or matched comparison sites.
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Continue and transfer
Costed continuation roadmaps with named owners and a toolkit other cities and employers can reuse.
What is new in BICO
Route planners, fleet telemetry, employer surveys and commuting campaigns exist, but they work in isolation. BICO's innovation is the combination of four elements; it does not claim that apps, dashboards or sensors are new inventions.
Compact as a governance instrument
The Corporate Mobility Compact turns SUMP and Climate City Contract targets into named employer commitments, resources and review rules.
Privacy-preserving evidence layer
City and employer dashboards suppress groups under five; SigNode-Edge aggregates at the sensor; survey waves are linked through a pseudonymous panel.
CSRD scope 3 value for employers
Employer dashboards report commuting emissions under CSRD / ESRS E1, scope 3 category 7, giving companies a reporting reason to join.
Common two-city evaluation protocol
Warsaw and Thessaloniki follow the same protocol, making results comparable and transferable to other cities.
Signalton's SigMLT mobility platform (TRL 7)
BICO reuses technology already operating in micromobility and school bus fleets rather than building it from scratch. Hardware, embedded software and analytics are all developed by Signalton.
SigNode-IoT devices
Sensor and actuator nodes with on-board and external sensors and 4G/LTE, fitted to e-scooters, e-bikes and cars.
SigNode-Edge
Low-latency edge computing with signal processing, computer vision and AI on the device, so counts can be anonymised before they leave the site.
SigMLT IoT platform
Vehicle tracking, GIS maps, monitoring of motion, battery and lock state, remote actuation, operational optimisation and optimal routing.
SigMLT mobile app
Route planning, sharing, rental interaction, lock and unlock, and payment for fleet users.
SigMLT runs today in a micromobility fleet in the UK and in a school bus tracking service in Ankara. In BICO, Signalton extends this stack from fleet operations to corporate commuting: SigMLT sends aggregated trip and counter data to the BICO platform through an authenticated interface, and its GIS routing becomes the basis for AI-assisted route ranking.
Where the technology stands
- BICO platform today
- Integrated laboratory prototype (TRL 4), running on test data
- Component technologies
- Signalton SigNode-IoT devices and SigMLT IoT platform (TRL 7, operational in micromobility and school bus fleets)
- Project target
- TRL 5 at M6, TRL 6 at M12, TRL 7 in both Living Labs by M24; selected core modules qualified at TRL 8 by M30. TRL 9 deployment follows after the project.
Developed in WP3
Multimodal, safety- and health-aware route options built on SigMLT GIS routing.
Mobile trip logging with consent, on-device minimisation and aggregation before upload.
Employer-funded incentives linked to challenges, without individual reporting to employers.
Documented APIs and exports that let cities procure without vendor lock-in.
AI use and Do No Significant Harm
AI ranks feasible routes and identifies aggregated patterns. It does not make consequential employment, insurance or enforcement decisions.
BICO promotes walking, cycling and public transport and does not finance fossil-fuel infrastructure. Digital development applies data minimisation, efficient cloud configuration, repairable sensor procurement where devices are needed, reuse of existing infrastructure and responsible end-of-life handling.
Route recommendations prioritise safety and accessibility. Pilots screen for rebound effects, exclusion, unsafe routing, excessive monitoring and displacement of vulnerable users.