Commute Twin · Verdal Industrial Park

Commute TwinVerdal Industrial Park · Ørin · prepared for Proneo

Simulated, checked against real counts

employeescontractorsshift busno space

05:30

Time saved per day

Less CO2 per day

Arrivals in the busiest hour

Departures in the busiest hour

Longest queue at the entrance

Longest queue at the exit

Peak parking occupancy

Vehicles without a space

Arrivals, departures and queues through the day

employee arrivalscontractor arrivalsdeparturesentrance queueexit queue

Parking occupancy

with measureswithout measures2,400 spaces (assumption)

Suggested measures

ranked by effect

Surrounding roads in peak hours

morning to the parkafternoon from the parkfree flow

Commute to work and home

average of all directions

Trip home in the afternoon peak

Trip to work in the morning peak

Time employees lose in congestion per day

Park share of traffic at the E6 junction in the peak hour

Measures reduce the number of vehicles the park sends onto these roads and the wait at the exit. They cannot remove congestion on the roads themselves.

Congestion on surrounding roads by hour

minutes of driving; redder means longer than free flow

Model check against Statens vegvesen counters

measured on ramps (vehicles per hour)model: park traffic from E6 plus other traffic

Project peak

Project Contractors Start End

Notice to companies in the park

If companies follow the agreement

arrivals

From this demo to a pilot in Verdal

proposal by Aras Digital Products

1Lab modelnow

Runs on public data only: OpenStreetMap, hourly counts from Statens vegvesen and Google Maps travel times. Shifts, parking spaces and gate capacity are assumptions, and the traffic peaks already match the measured counts.

2Pilot with real data6 to 12 months

Replace the assumptions with data from the park, run a two-week counting campaign at the gates, and test one measure with volunteer companies, for example a staggered shift change or a shift bus from Verdal station.

3Operational toolafter the pilot

Park management and companies use the twin to plan shift changes, project peaks and the Ørin Nord expansion, and to report hours and CO2 saved.

What we would need from Proneo and the park

Shift start and end times for the larger companies
Number of parking spaces and where they are
Gate or access-card counts by hour, anonymised
Dates and size of upcoming project peaks
A contact person in the park and two or three companies willing to test a measure

Funding

EEA and Norway Grants 2021 to 2028, programme Green and Blue Business Innovation in Croatia, run by HAMAG-BICRO with Innovation Norway. The first calls are expected from late 2026. In the previous cycle a Norwegian partner was not mandatory but earned extra points, and Proneo has run Innovation Norway projects in Lithuania, Latvia and Moldova.

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