Project description
Driving innovation for sustainable urban and peri-urban mobility
The people-oriented transport and mobility (POTM) approach is a promising solution for addressing the sustainable mobility challenges that many urban and peri-urban areas face in the EU. However, despite its potential, there is currently a lack of evidence and transformative POTM solutions within the research and innovation framework. The EU-funded Cities-4-People project has formed a multidisciplinary consortium that aims to introduce a community-driven POTM framework relying on participatory, inclusive and transparent innovation processes. The innovative framework will address the real needs of EU citizens and co-create new mobility concepts and solutions while harnessing digital and social innovation. The project will test the best solutions in five EU urban areas with a rich diversity in size, population density and socio-economic context.
Objective
People Oriented Transport and Mobility (POTM) holds a great promise for tackling some of the most persistent urban and peri-urban sustainable mobility challenges of common interest to EU cities. Even though researchers, practitioners and policy makers are aware of this potential, the current research and innovation framework is plagued by a surprising lack of evidence and transformative POTM solutions.
Cities-4-People brings together a multidisciplinary consortium to introduce a community-driven POTM framework based on participatory, inclusive and transparent innovation processes. We incorporate collective awareness and open innovation to understand the real needs of EU citizens and co-create new mobility solutions with them, harnessing digital and social innovation. Based on a local community setting and supported by cross-disciplinary teams and a comprehensive suite of collaborative technologies (both online and offline), citizens along with public and private city stakeholders will co-develop concepts and endorse concrete solutions – inspired by growing mobility trends (e.g. shared mobility and connected mobility). The best solutions will be put to the real test in a thorough pilot and scale up program in 5 different EU urban areas with rich diversity in terms of size, population density and socio-economic context. In parallel, the project will introduce an open process to co-develop a common Core Outcome Set of definitions, metrics, indicators and methods to guide POTM impact assessment and place, for the first time, the citizen into the equation. We will use this common baseline throughout our evaluations together with some less traditional techniques (e.g. people as sensors, real time user feedback). We believe that this work will act as the first open standard in POTM and will open up the way not only for the structuring of this young research field, but also for the attraction of interest from entrepreneurs, companies as well as investors (social or not).
Fields of science
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark