SETO aims to create a digital platform for collecting and integrating relevant data to support more efficient transportation enforcement procedures. SETO also endeavours to ensuring that both the technologies developed within the project and their potential large-scale application follow a path which contributes to relevant social sustainability goals, such as better working conditions and higher road safety.
Our interest stands also in developing solutions for the soft enforcement of SETO technologies, meaning that we want to identify potential room for a voluntary application of SETO technologies by relevant stakeholders, such as transportation companies.
For this reason T4.2, coordinated by ISIG as part of WP4 (Impact Groundwork), aims to investigate social behaviours in transport operations. We are organising activities involving stakeholders and end-users in order to assess social behaviours, as well as perceptions and awareness related with the impact of SETO technologies, across different countries and taking into account specific groups considered underrepresented in the transport workforce (e.g., women, migrant workers, self-employed workers).
The task is also exploring the possibility of implementing incentive and reward mechanisms within the context of soft enforcement of the proposed technologies. Incentives and rewards are typically designed to reduce or overcome barriers that prevent or hinder adherence to a given procedure, while also reinforcing the positive effects of implementing a specific protocol. These barriers may relate to time, effort, economic costs, or perceived discomfort associated with implementation procedures.
The outcome of the task will be the definition of a range of possible solutions for soft enforcement, tailored to the specific context of the transport sector. These solutions will be compared against a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators to assess their effectiveness, including the degree of acceptance by end users of the solutions developed by SETO. The indicators will be made publicly available in a “toolbox,” a useful resource for evaluating the social acceptance of technologies in the transport sector and the mechanisms that influence and shape this acceptance, starting from soft enforcement solutions.
The survey “Your road, your voice”, targeting transportation workers, is designed to explore various aspects of daily work experiences in the transportation sector. It also seeks to assess perceptions of and awareness regarding the technologies developed under SETO project. In addition, the survey includes standard demographic questions to support a more detailed analysis of the conditions faced by underrepresented workforce groups.
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