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With the aim of promoting and disseminating ASSURED at events, conferences, etc. a project brchure has been developed. The present deliverable sumarises the process of creation of the ASSURED Brochure – first edition. The Brochure is an A4 folder with 1 cover, 2 central pages in landscape and 1 back. The final result is shown in the corresponding figures. The ASSURED Brochure was launched during the project events from 17th to 20th September 2018 in Berlin and Oslo.

The dissemination activities aim at raising interest of relevant stakeholders, including the end-users of the ASSURED solutions, developed during the project and the cities. This document describes the strategy conceived for the dissemination of the ASSURED activities and results addressing the target audience. These activities will additionally work towards transferring information about the results generated during the project lifecycle to the relevant stakeholders (e.g. cities, associations, etc.) and at gathering their feedback. In a second instance, exploitation-oriented dissemination activities will be aimed at promoting the project approach, technological solutions, demonstrators, business models, etc., towards the target end-users to speed up their adoption and uptake. Raising public awareness, maintaining and developing the level of knowledge requires a constant effort from the project Consortium. Dynamism and imagination are crucial elements to permanently reach our target audience. In this sense, this document goes along the tools and means implemented in the project to ensure a high awareness of ASSURED among its target audience.

The dissemination activities aim at raising interest of relevant stakeholders, including the end-users of the ASSURED solutions, developed during the project and the cities. This document describes the strategy conceived for the dissemination of the ASSURED activities and results addressing the target audience. These activities will additionally work towards transferring information about the results generated during the project lifecycle to the relevant stakeholders (e.g. cities, associations, etc.) and at gathering their feedback. In a second instance, exploitation-oriented dissemination activities will be aimed at promoting the project approach, technological solutions, demonstrators, business models, etc., towards the target end-users to speed up their adoption and uptake. Raising public awareness, maintaining and developing the level of knowledge requires a constant effort from the project Consortium. Dynamism and imagination are crucial elements to permanently reach our target audience. In this sense, this document goes along the tools and means implemented in the project to ensure a high awareness of ASSURED among its target audience.

In Europe it is not possible to define unique bus service models for cities, operators and authorities, as their roles change from one city to another. Past projects such as ZeEUS identified a model collecting the functions that compose the bus service, independently from the actor responsible for that in each city. Based on this model, the present deliverable validates the service functions for the ASSURED cities Barcelona, Eindhoven, Gothenburg and Osnabruck. Chapter 3 provides a brief introduction of the main objectives of D10.1, inputs, main results and links with related deliverables. Chapter 4 presents a selection of important projects and initiatives in the field of bus services, describing the main objectives of each of them and how the results can be taken into account in ASSURED. Chapter 5 describes the complexity of the organisational models for public transport and how the different models are highly dependent on the local context. Chapter 6 introduces how to approach the design and implementation of electric bus systems with a brief description of the system approach and the ZeEUS phased approach. Chapter 7 introduces the characteristics of public transport and the role of e-bus systems to increase quality of life. Against this background, the chapter describes the review procedure and validation of the bus service functions. Finally, the chapter illustrates the different approaches followed by the ASSURED cities, Eindhoven, Osnabruck, Barcelona and Gothenburg and the roles assign to the identified bus service functions.