Making European cities greener : towards clean and smart mobility : Horizon 2020.
Date: 2019-10-20
Institutions: Innovation and Networks Executive Agency
Subjects: atmospheric pollutant, clean technology, intelligent transport system, reduction of gas emissions, sustainable mobility, urban area

Making European 
cities greener

Towards clean and 
smart mobility

Horizon 2020

Innovation and 
Networks Executive 
Agency

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Foreword

INEA’s contribution to Urban Mobility

  CIVITAS
  Smart Cities and Communities

The CEF Transport programme

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Project’s Overview

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FLOW

CREATE

HARMONY

MOMENTUM

SocialCar

MUV

Cities-4-People

Metamorphosis

HiReach

STARs

HANDSHAKE

CityChangerCargoBike

Prosperity

SUMPs-Up

SUMP PLUS

Park4SUMP

SUCCESS

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U-TURN

ELIPTIC

GreenCharge

Meister

ELVITEN

STEVE

MORE

MaaS4EU

CoExist

GECKO

CIVITAS ECCENTRIC

CIVITAS PORTIS

CIVITAS DESTINATIONS

IRIS

REMOURBAN

POSTLowCit

MI2

Foreword

Reducing CO2 and pollutant emissions 
from urban mobility is one of the EU’s 
ambitious  goals  for  creating  more 
sustainable  European  cities.  Currently, 
over  70%  of  EU  citizens  live  in  urban 
areas,  and  over  80%  of  the  EU’s  GDP 
is  generated  in  cities.  However,  urban 
congestion  jeopardises  EU  goals  for 
a  competitive  and  resource-efficient 
transport  system.  Urban 
transport 
is  responsible  for  about  a  quarter 
of  CO2  emissions  from  transport. 
Consequently,  clean  and  smart  urban 
mobility  has  become  an  important 
factor for cities to flourish economically 
and socially, with a high quality of life 
environmentally.

The transition towards clean and smart 
mobility builds on four key pillars:

A more efficient transport system

Low and zero emission vehicles

New business models and services 
for transport

Europe 

INEA, 
the  European  Commission’s 
Innovation  and  Networks  Executive 
Agency,  implements  important  parts 
of  the  EU’s  research  and  innovation 
programme  Horizon  2020  and  the 
Connecting 
The 
Agency  selects  and  manages  projects 
throughout  their  lifecycle,  from  idea 
to implementation. Between 2014 and 
2019,  INEA  has  supported  a  portfolio 
of  33  projects  in  the  field  of  urban 
mobility  and  transport  with  around 
€175 million of Horizon 2020 funding. 

Facility. 

This  brochure  gives  examples  of 
the  Agency’s  projects  that  develop 
innovative solutions for urban transport 
and mobility. They have been selected 
from  a  broad  project  portfolio  that 
covers  domains  such  as  sustainable 
urban mobility planning, demonstration 
and  take-up  of  innovative  transport 
solutions  in  living  labs,  green  urban 
vehicles, and automated road transport 
in cities. 

Multi-modality  and  inter-modality 
– integration of all transport modes

I  hope  that  you  will  find  this  brochure 
informative and interesting. 

Research and innovation play a key role 
in  developing,  testing  and  launching 
the  next  generation  solutions  in  these 
four areas onto the market. In addition, 
the  long-term  potential  of  disruptive 
innovations needs to be explored. 

Dirk BeckersINEA Director  
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The  Innovation  and  Networks  Executive  Agency 
(INEA)  is  an  executive  agency  established  by  the 
European  Commission  to  implement  parts  of  EU 
funding  programmes  for  transport,  energy  and 
telecommunications.

The Agency provides its stakeholders with expertise 
and high-level programme management, while at the 
same time promoting synergies between programmes, 
in order to contribute to economic growth and benefit 
EU citizens.

INEA  supports  research  and  innovation  in  urban 
mobility together with the Commission’s Directorate-
General  for  Mobility  and  Transport  (DG  MOVE)  and 

the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation 
(DG  RTD).  The  Agency  plays  a  key  role  in  turning 
the  policies  set  by  the  Directorates-Generals  into 
successful projects with tangible results.

The parts of the programmes managed by INEA that 
provide  funding  for  urban  transport  and  mobility 
projects  are  the  Horizon  2020  societal  challenges 
‘Smart green and integrated transport’, including the 
CIVITAS  initiative,  and  ‘Secure,  clean  and  efficient 
energy’,  including  Smart  Cities  and  Communities, 
and  the  Connecting  Europe  Facility  -  CEF  Transport, 
including the Urban nodes priority. 

The Horizon 2020 Smart, green and integrated transport challenge aims at boosting the competitiveness 
of  the  European  transport  industry  and  achieving  a  European  transport  system  that  is  resource  efficient, 
environmentally-friendly as well as safe and seamless, for the benefit of all citizens, the economy and society.

CIVITAS

The CIVITAS Initiative was launched by the European 
Commission in 2002. It is a network of ambitious cities 
dedicated to cleaner and better transport in Europe.

Since  its  launch,  the  CIVITAS  Initiative  has  had  five 
funding phases in which more than 80 demonstration 
cities have tested and implemented over 800 solutions 
as  part  of 
integrated  CIVITAS  demonstration 
projects.  The  work  in  each  CIVITAS  demonstration 
city is organised and supported by a cluster of local 
partners.

In addition, as part of the last CIVITAS funding phase, 
some 30 research and innovation projects explore 
how  new  technologies  and  innovative  services  can 
support  more  resource  efficient  and  competitive 
transport,  and  how  economic  and  social  trends 
influence the functioning of urban transport systems.

The  CIVITAS  demonstration  projects  intervene  and 
assess  impacts  in  ten  thematic  areas  that  reinforce 
each  other:  Car-Independent  Lifestyles,  Clean 
Fuels  and  Vehicles,  Collective  Passenger  Transport, 

Demand  Management,  Integrated  Planning,  Mobility 
Management, Public Involvement, Safety and Security, 
Transport  Telematics  and  Freight  Logistics.  Besides 
impact,  they  evaluate  the  measure  implementation 
processes and user responses.  

The  CIVITAS  Initiative  acts  as  a  capacity  building 
and knowledge exchange network as it offers local 
practitioners opportunities to learn about innovative 
transport  and  mobility  solutions  first-hand.  The 
CIVITAS  FORUM  conferences,  the  Political  Advisory 
Committee,  the  Thematic  and  Advisory  Groups,  the 
national  CIVINETs  and  the  CIVITAS  website  (www.
civitas.eu) are all key elements of the initiative. 

INEA is currently managing 3 CIVITAS demonstration 
projects  and  29  CIVITAS  research  and  innovation 
projects with a total EU contribution of around €180 
million. These projects involve some 400 beneficiaries 
from  all  over  the  EU  and  neighbouring  countries, 
including  17  demonstration  cities,  reaching  about 
10% of the EU population.

The  Horizon  2020  Secure,  clean  and  efficient  energy  challenge  supports  the  transition  to  a  reliable, 
sustainable and competitive energy system by overcoming a number of Europe’s challenges, such as increasingly 
scarce resources, growing energy needs and climate change.

Smart Cities and 
Communities

The Smart Cities and Communities (SCC) lighthouse 
projects  demonstrate  sustainable,  cost-effective  and 
replicable  district-scale  solutions  to  increase  cities’ 
overall energy and resource efficiency, by addressing the 
building  stock,  the  energy  systems,  mobility,  climate 
change, water and air quality. They are positioned at the 
intersection of energy and transport innovation, enabled 
by open ICT urban platforms. 

These projects aim at bringing profound economic, social 
and  environmental  impacts,  resulting  ultimately  in  a 
better quality of life, competitiveness, jobs and growth 
in cities.

The first SCC call was launched in 2014, and 14 projects 
have  been  funded  so  far  in  five  calls,  for  a  total  EU 
contribution of around €300 million. The 14 ongoing SCC 
projects involve some 550 beneficiaries from all over the 
EU, including 40 lighthouse cities and 53 follower cities.

The CEF Transport
programme

The  CEF  Transport  programme  supports  the 
construction and upgrade of transport infrastructure 
in Europe. It also contributes to the deployment of 
sustainable and efficient mobility solutions, as well 
as to the combination of transport modes and ICT.

CEF – Urban nodes
The urban nodes priority (under the CEF and Trans-
European  Transport  Network  -  TEN-T  -  policies) 
aims  to  better  integrate  long-distance  transport 
with the urban traffic system for both passengers 
and freight. The objectives of this priority are:

•  To cover the missing links and bottlenecks within 
and  between  the  transport  modes  of  the  TEN-T 
in  urban  nodes  (for  example  the  connection 
between an airport and the city centre or between 
international rail stations and urban bypasses)

•  To  cover  the  missing  links  and  bottlenecks  by 
better  connecting  the  TEN-T  journeys  with  the 
urban ones

•  To 

increase  multi-modality,  by  sustainably 
shifting from cars to alternative modes for both 
freight and passengers or by shifting from fossil 
to alternative fuels, or by improving road safety. 
includes  public  transport  optimisation, 
This 
development  of  bikes  and  cargo-bike  transport 
patterns, alternative fuels infrastructure and/or 
solutions and services, low-noise and low-carbon 
urban  freight  delivery,  car-sharing  and  ride-
sharing schemes, better use of public space, etc.

Since 2014 the CEF urban nodes priority has been  
implemented  through  five  calls,  which  resulted  in 
44  projects  selected  for  funding  with  a  total  EU 
contribution of €215 million.

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TRANSPORT PLANNING AND 
MODELLING
FLOW; CREATE; HARMONY; 
MOMENTUM

DIGITALISATION AND SOCIO-
ECONOMIC TRENDS
SocialCar; MUV; Cities-4-People; 
Metamorphosis; HiReach; STARs

ACTIVE MODES
HANDSHAKE; 
CityChangerCargoBike

SUSTAINABLE URBAN 
MOBILITY PLANNING
PROSPERITY; SUMPs-Up; SUMP 
PLUS; Park4SUMP

URBAN FREIGHT AND 
LOGISTICS
SUCCESS; U-TURN

ELECTRIC MOBILITY IN CITIES
ELIPTIC; GreenCharge; Meister; 
ELVITEN; STEVE

NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND 
SERVICES, INNOVATIVE 
INFRASTRUCTURE
MORE; MaaS4EU; CoExist; GECKO

CIVITAS DEMONSTRATION 
PROJECTS
CIVITAS ECCENTRIC; CIVITAS 
PORTIS; CIVITAS DESTINATIONS

SMART CITIES AND COMMUNITIES 
LIVING LABS
IRIS; REMOURBAN

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CEF URBAN NODES
POSTLowCIT; MI2

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FLOW

Reducing congestion by creating opportunities for more 
walking and cycling

RUPPRECHT CONSULT-FORSCHUNG & BERATUNG GMBH

30/04/2018

€3,781,696

http://www.h2020-flow.eu/

01/05/2015

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There are many tools that assess the benefits of walking and cycling 
in  terms  of  health,  environment  and  the  economy.  But  what  about 
transportation  benefits?  How  can  more  walking  and  cycling  actually 
improve or help to effectively manage traffic flow?

The EU H2020 FLOW project contributed to the paradigm shift wherein 
non-motorised transport is placed on an equal footing with motorised 
modes with regard to alleviating urban congestion. The project results 
confirmed  that  walking  and  cycling  measures  are  systematically 
overlooked  in  congestion  reduction  due  to  the  inability  of  existing 
transport analysis tools to fully assess their benefits. FLOW has been 
developing a set of tools to fill this gap:

•  A comprehensive impact assessment tool
•  A set of five multimodal analysis calculations 
for  assessing  different  aspects  of  transport 
network quality

•  Improved  macroscopic  and  microscopic 

traffic modelling software.

(HU),  Dublin 

(IE), 
FLOW  cities  Budapest 
Gdynia  (PL),  Lisbon  (PT),  Munich  (DE)  and 
Sofia  (BG)  actively  participated  in  developing, 
refining  and  validating  these  tools,  to  analyse 
the  relationship  of  cyclist  and  pedestrian 
movements to congestion in their local contexts. 

At  the  same  time,  these  six  cities  developed 
implementation  scenarios  and  action  plans 
for  adding  or  up-scaling  cycling  or  walking 
measures that are shown to reduce congestion. 
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•  Budapest became the first city in Europe to incorporate 
its bike share system into its public transport model, 
to accurately represent daily bike share use

•  Dublin  determined  that  pedestrianising  the  busy 
public plaza, College Green, would accommodate 700 
more people during rush hour

•  Lisbon  found  that  reducing  the  curve  radii  and 
pedestrian  crossing  distances  does  not  increase 
congestion, and greatly improves pedestrian safety
•  Munich  showed  that  reallocating  public  space  for 
pedestrians and improving pedestrian safety results in 
travel time benefits that often outweigh the required 
investment, as well as safety benefits that are likely 
to equal or outweigh travel time losses for cars

•  Gdynia  demonstrated  that  introducing  small-scale 
traffic calming measures and shared space on a street 
in the city centre will likely not increase congestion
•  Assessing  their  cycle  to  work  campaigns  with  five 
major  employers,  Sofia  found  that  such  campaigns 
result in over 500,000 EUR in estimated savings. The 
Sofia Cycling Strategy now includes cycling campaigns 
with employers as a standard measure.

FLOW  has  developed  the  following  recommendations 
for  transport  planners  and  decision  makers  based  on 
the insights gained during this Research and Innovation 
Action:
•  Fully  consider  walking  and  cycling  when  developing 
plans  and  policies  to  improve  transport  system 
performance as well as through the impact analysis 
and implementation processes

•  Improve  existing  transport  analysis  techniques  and 
models  to  include  all  modes  and  to  account  for  the 
interaction between modes

•  Improve  communication  about  multimodal  transport 
analysis  and  increase  transparency  in  the  transport 
planning process

•  Improve  data  collection  for  walking  and  cycling  to 
better  understand  the  movements  of  these  modes 
(see the results from the FLOW data workshop on the 
FLOW website)

•  Place 

transport  system  performance 

(including 
congestion)  within  the 
larger  context  of  urban 
liveability,  economic  viability,  safety  and  health  (not 
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Macroscopic scale: improved modelling of P+R and bike
sharing schemes; improved route choice op�ons by
cyclist traﬃc assignment; etc.

Macroscopic scale: enhanced modelling of interac�ons
between cars, pedestrians and cyclists; shared space;
be�er depic�ng of walking and cycling behavious, etc.

 
 
 
 
 
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Create

Congestion reduction in Europe – advancing transport 
efficiency

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

€3,870,146

http://www.create-mobility.eu

01/06/2015

31/05/2018

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The  CREATE  (Congestion  Reduction  in  Europe  –  Advancing  Transport 
Efficiency)  project  set  out  to  examine  how  five  Western  European 
capital  cities  (Berlin,  Copenhagen,  London,  Paris  and  Vienna)  have 
dealt with the growth in car ownership and use over the past 60 years, 
and  how  changing  policy  responses  have  impacted  on  congestion, 
air  pollution  and  CO2  levels.  A  further  five  cities,  at  earlier  stages  in 
their car ownership growth curves (Adana, Amman, Bucharest, Skopje 
and  Tallinn)  investigated  the  extent  to  which  the  Western  European 
experiences could be adapted to their cultural and geographic contexts. 

The  study  combined  a  quantitative  analysis  of  changing  household 
travel patterns in each city over time, with qualitative interviews with 
city officials and politicians, to gain an understanding of the changing 
regulations, policies and public attitudes – and those things which had 
accelerated  or  retarded  shifts  towards  more  sustainable  transport 
policies.

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CREATE demonstrated that cities have had very different 
policy priorities at different points in time (from adapting 
the  city  to  the  car,  through  to  developing  high  quality 
places), that have given rise to the introduction of very 
different policy measures (fig 1) 

These  policy  priorities  and  supporting  measures  have 
tended  to  be  introduced  sequentially  in  three  stages 
(Car-oriented in 1960s and 1970s; Sustainable mobility 
from  the  1980s  and  City  of  places  from  2000s),  and 
have  in  turn  led  first  to  increasing  car  use  and  road 
traffic, then a levelling off and more recently a decline) 
(fig 2). 

CREATE  has  identified  policy  packages  that  have  been 
most  successful  in  different  contexts  in  reducing  car 
use,  while  enhancing  the  quality  of  public  spaces  and 
improving  the  provision  of  public  transport,  walking 
and cycling facilities. It has developed a comprehensive 
set  of  CREATE  guidelines  which  brings  together  the 
various learnings from the project to provide cities with 

guidance on how to evolve and implement Stage  2 and 
Stage  3  policies  (see  http://www.create-mobility.eu/). 
CREATE  has  worked  with  our  Central/Eastern  European 
and  EuroMed  cities  to  help  introduce  these  policies, 
which have enabled the authorities to move away from 
car-based planning.

All CREATE cities have been interested in the question: 
“what is Stage 4 and how might we plan for it?”; although 
the future is uncertain, one proposal was the ‘Integrated 
City’, where Mobility as a Service offers fully integrated 
transport services, and the widespread adoption of Smart 
City initiatives encourage more cross-sector investment 
planning. Cities were particularly mindful of the potential 
positive  and  negative  impacts  of  autonomous  vehicles 
–  and  how  these  could  be  regulated  in  order  to  serve 
rather than frustrate future city visions. 

Since the completion of the project, CREATE ideas have 
been applied elsewhere in Europe and in cities in Sub-
Saharan Africa and in South America.

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Projects Overview

Projects Overview

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Topic: Transport planning and modelling

Topic: Transport planning and modelling

HARMONY

Holistic  approach  for  providing  spatial  and  transport  planning 
tools  and  evidence  to  metropolitan  and  regional  authorities  to 
lead a sustainable transition to a new mobility era 

HARMONY’s  vision  is  to  develop  a  new  generation 
of  harmonised  spatial  and  multimodal  transport 
planning  tools.  These  tools  comprehensively  model 
the  dynamics  of  the  changing  transport  sector  and 
spatial  organisation,  enabling  metropolitan  area 
authorities to lead the transition to a low carbon new 
mobility era in a sustainable manner.

HARMONY  will  test  its  solutions  in  6  metropolitan 
areas: Rotterdam (Netherlands), Oxfordshire (United 
Kingdom),  Athens  (Greece),  Turin  (Italy),  Trikala 
(Greece), Upper Silesian-Zaglebie Metropolis (Poland).

The consortium consists of 21 organisations from 9 
European countries and it is led by University College 
London. The duration of the project is 3.5 years.

integrated  with 

HARMONY goes beyond simply designing the planning 
tools.  Stakeholders  are  actively  engaged  in  co-
creation  labs  to  understand  their  needs  in  terms  of 
integration of traditional and new transport modes, as 
well as regional spatial and transport planning. New 
mobility technologies and concepts, such as electric 
autonomous vehicles and drones, are demonstrated 
transport 
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and 
modes  to  derive  the  real-world  challenges,  social 
acceptance and policy requirements. HARMONY uses 
the  results  of  the  tools  and  the  co-creation  labs  to 
offer a complete solution including recommendations 
for  a  new  generation  of  Sustainable  Urban  Mobility 
Plans (SUMPs)  ready to tackle the challenges of the 
new mobility era and regional planning. HARMONY’s 
outputs act as an enabler of the innovation process 
and  its  introduction  in  harmony  with  the  needs  and 
requirements of agglomerations.

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30/11/2022

01/06/2019

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

€7,430,894

http://www.harmony-h2020.eu/ 

Coordinator

EU Contribution

Website

MOMENTUM
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Modelling Emerging Transport Solutions for Urban Mobility

Disruptive  technologies,  such  as  shared  mobility, 
Mobility  as  a  Service 
(MaaS)  and  Connected 
Autonomous  Vehicles  (CAV),  are  bringing  radical 
changes  in  urban  mobility.  The  goal  of  MOMENTUM 
is  to  develop  a  set  of  new  data  analysis  methods, 
transport models and planning support tools able to 
capture the impact of new transport options on urban 
mobility, especially MaaS and shared mobility.

This  would  support  cities  to  design  the  right  policy 
mix to exploit the full potential of emerging mobility 
solutions. The project aims to deliver: 
•  A  set  of  plausible  future  scenarios  for  the  next 
decade  to  be  taken  into  account  for  mobility 
planning 
in  European  cities,  considering  the 
introduction of disruptive technologies

•  Characterisation  of  emerging  activity-travel 
patterns  of  the  existing  forms  of  transport,  such 
as shared mobility, by profiting from the increasing 
availability of high-resolution spatiotemporal data 
from ICT devices

•  Data-driven  predictive  models  of  the  adoption 
and  use  of  new  mobility  concepts,  in  particular 
MaaS  and  shared  mobility,  their  interaction  and 
complementarity with public transport

•  Transport  simulation  and  planning  support  tools 
able  to  cope  with  the  new  challenges  faced  by 
transport  planning,  by  enhancing  existing  tools 

with  the  analysis  methods  and  travel  demand 
models developed by the project

•  A  demonstration  of  the  potential  of  the  newly 
developed methods and tools by testing the impact 
of  a  variety  of  policies  and  innovative  transport 
services in different heterogenous European cities 
(Madrid,  Thessaloniki,  Leuven,  and  Regensburg), 
and  evaluating  the  contribution  of  the  proposed 
measures to the strategic policy goals of each city
•  A  set  of  guidelines  for  the  practical  use  of  the 
methods, tools and lessons learnt delivered by the 
project  in  the  elaboration  and  implementation  of 
SUMPs and other planning instruments.

30/04/2022

01/05/2019

EMPRESA MUNICIPAL DE TRANSPORTES DE MADRID SA

€2,927,875

https://www.uitp.org/momentum

Coordinator

EU Contribution

Website

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Topic: Digitalisation and Socio-economic trends

Topic: Digitalisation and Socio-economic trends

SocialCar

© SocialCar

© MUV

MUV

Open  social  transport  network  for  urban  approach  to 
carpooling

Mobility Urban Values

SocialCar  is  a  Horizon  2020  European  research 
project  completed  in  2018  and  aimed  at  enhancing 
the  public  transport  network  by  a  wider  variety  of 
on-demand  services.  SocialCar  developed  a  suite 
of  services,  studies  and  business  models  tested  in 
10  European  cities  with  the  concrete  generation  of 
multimodal  trips:  the  unique  feature  of  the  system 
is to discover and propose to users travel itineraries 
combining  both  public  transport  and  carpooling 
or  other  on-demand  services,  enhancing 
the 
potentialities of the whole mobility network in cities. 
By developing data processing flows and algorithms, 
the  project  responded  to  the  challenge  of  matching 
travel  requests  with  the  integrated  public-private 
transport supply. 

The project produced tangible results summarised as 
follows:

•   An  integrated  software  platform  and  the  Mobile 
App RideMyRoute made available as Open Source 
(in Github, Apple Store and Google Play) for further 
developments

•   A novel data exchange protocol especially designed 
in  public  project 

for  carpooling,  documented 
deliverables

•   A  deep  evaluation 

related 
assessment  reporting  the  outcomes  of  project 
experimentations

framework  and 

•   Several business models for potential product roll-

out, along with market framework analysis

•   The  financial  assessment  elaborated  for  the  10 
project sites with a dedicated tool publicly available 
and easily configurable.

MUV  stands  for  “Mobility  Urban  Values”  and  is  a 
digital  platform  turning  sustainable  mobility  into  a 
sport game. 

You play using a mobile app available on Android and 
iOS stores (muvapp.eu). 

You get points every time you move in a sustainable 
way:  walking,  cycling,  using  public  transports  and 
carpooling. 

31/05/2018

With MUV you become a sustainable mobility athlete.

01/06/2015

FIT CONSULTING SRL

€5,384,646

http://socialcar-project.eu

Coordinator

EU Contribution

Website

You  train  yourself  but  you  also  compete  with  other 
MUVers in your neighbourhood.

City teams play against each other in the context of 
the MUV Sustainable City Tournament.

This  game  can  make  your  neighborhood  a  better 
place.

MUV  promotes 
towards  more 
indeed  a  shift 
sustainable and healthy mobility choices by engaging 
in a positive way local communities, local businesses 
and policymakers.

Citizens become sustainable mobility champions and 
are rewarded for joining challenges in the game.

Local organisations and shops become sponsors and 
get  access  to  an  innovative  communication  system 
to reach (new) customers. 

City planners and mobility managers become trainers 
and lead MUVers to the final victory. Moreover, they 
are provided with data about human-transit collected 
through  the  app  (anonymised  and  aggregated)  and 
environmental data collected by a set of monitoring 
stations installed around the MUV neighbourhoods.

The MUV service is open and has been co-created and 
tested with the communities of six neighbourhoods in 
the  following  cities:  Amsterdam,  Barcelona,  Fundão, 
Ghent,  Helsinki  and  Palermo.  Ten  additional  cities 
have  joined  the  MUVement  through  the  first  Open 
Call (September 2018) and a new one is ready to be 
announced.

31/05/2020

01/06/2017

PALERMO URBAN SOLUTIONS HUB

€3,992,625

http://www.muv2020.eu/

Coordinator

EU Contribution

Website

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Topic: Digitalisation and Socio-economic trends

Topic: Digitalisation and Socio-economic trends

©Cities-Cities-4-People

©Metamorphosis

Cities-4-People

Metamorphosis

New approaches for community-driven sustainable mobility 
innovations at neighbourhood and urban district level

Transformation  of  neighbourhoods  in  a  child-friendly  way 
to increase the quality of life for all citizens

Cities-4-People  (2017-2020)  promotes  a  people-
oriented  transport  and  mobility  (POTM)  approach 
using five pilot cities as a testbed, namely Budapest 
(HU),  Hamburg  (DE),  Istanbul  (TR),  Oxford  (UK)  and 
Trikala  (GR).  The  project  focuses  on  the  needs  of 
citizens  at  neighbourhood  level  and  fosters  the 
development of innovative and sustainable mobility 
solutions.  Each  pilot  area  sets  up  a  collaborative 
space,  the  Citizen  Mobility  Lab,  where  citizens  can 
meet  with  local  authorities,  mobility  providers  and 
academics  and  co-design  solutions  that  have  a 
low  ecological  footprint  and  respond  to  local  urban 
mobility challenges.

This  process  entails  numerous  activities,  which 
span  from  research  to  piloting.  The  project  starts 
with  mapping  mobility  challenges  in  each  of  the 
cities.  Based  on  the  results,  citizens  are  invited 
to  co-define  the  intervention  areas,  after  which 
Citizen  Mobility  Communities  are  brought  together 
to  envision  possible  solutions 
the  specific 
challenges  of  the  neighbourhood.  Through  a  series 
of  dedicated  events  (warm-ups,  presentation  days, 
hackdays,  quadruple  helix  stakeholder  workshops) 
and the use of the Citizen Mobility Kit (a living tool 
comprising  a  mix  of  online  and  offline  resources), 
the  communities  move  from  ideas  to  concepts  to 
the  selection  of  three  solutions  per  neighbourhood. 
These  are  first  prototyped,  then  refined  and  finally 

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tested. All interventions are monitored and assessed 
according to the Core-Outcome-Set methodology. In 
each pilot city, the solution with greatest potential is 
improved through a second cycle of dedicated events, 
subsequently  piloted  and  assessed.  A  Deployment 
Toolkit  and  Replication  Guide  is  created  at  the  end 
of the project to enable other cities and stakeholders 
to  take  up  Cities-4-Peole’s  assets  and  ensure  their 
sustainability.

Ultimately,  the  legacy  of  Cities-4-People  will  mirror 
the  many  layers  of  the  project:  there  will  be  new 
knowledge, fresh input for policy making, five vibrant 
communities,  and  fifteen+  sustainable  and  scalable 
POTM solutions.

31/05/2020

01/06/2017

COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL

€3,999,938

https://cities4people.eu/

Coordinator

EU Contribution

Website

The  concept  of  roads  has  been  around  for  a  long 
time, much longer than we have had cars, but a shift 
of  paradigm  in  the  last  century  transformed  the 
colourful multi-functionality of cities into the mono-
use  of  motor  vehicles,  leaving  behind  people  and 
making  streets  planned  for  cars  -  to  establish  the 
“right” rules for the use of city space. The vision of the 
Horizon2020 METAMORPHOSIS project is to redesign 
this  space  with  a  focus  on  children  and  transform 
neighbourhoods into more liveable spaces for all.

Indeed, children have direct experience of street use 
every-day and are spontaneous ambassadors of what 
sustainability represents with regard to streets: free, 
cohesive  and  safe  places  where  people  can  enjoy 
time and build social relationships. METAMORPHOSIS 
listens to their voice and creates activities with them 
for this transformation to take place. 

Thanks  to  temporary  interventions  in  public  spaces, 
citizens,  city  planners  and  expert  stakeholders 
face  an  alternative  use  of  public  space  and  may 
experience  an  increased  number  of  children  on  the 
street  and  a  reduction  of  car  trips.  The  so-called 
“crystallisations  points”,  hybrid  zones,  parklets  or 
temporary  street  openings  bring  people  back  to  the 

street and improve their quality of life; whereas bike 
share points, empowerment of active mobility and use 
of  educational  innovation  tools  enable  a  behavioral 
shift in their mobility habits and contribute to a more 
equal accessibility to street use.

31/05/2020

01/06/2017

FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MOBILITAET 
- Austrian Mobility Research FGM - AMOR 
Gemeinnutzige GMBH

€2,950,005

http://www.metamorphosis-project.eu/

Coordinator

EU Contribution

Website

Projects OverviewProjects OverviewWHO we target

Addressing the needs of potentially vulnerable groups to favour INCLUSIVE MOBILITY

Children and youth

Elderly

Women

People with

reduced mobility

Social groups

and individuals

as RESPONSIBLE

PRODUCERS

AND CO-USERS

of mobility

solutions

Migrants and

ethnic minorities

People living in rural

and deprived areas

Low income

and unemployed

WHERE we focus

Analysing geographical and spatial elements aﬀecting transport poverty

Target areas:

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Peri-urban

Urban peripheral

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Topic: Digitalisation and Socio-economic trends

Topic: Digitalisation and Socio-economic trends

Remote

Deprived

WHAT we do

Explore and develop new business models for COLLECTIVE PASSENGER TRANSPORT

Small scale, modular and easily replicable mobility services provided
at aﬀordable prices or with minimum subsidies

Informal ride-sharing
and van pooling

Community
transport services

Innovative ride-hailing
mobility services

On demand ﬂexible
public transport

HiReach

USER-ORIENTED APPROACH,
not a technology push approach

© HiReach

© STARs

STARS

Key HiReach OUTCOMES 
and how YOU can be involved

High  reach  innovative  mobility  solutions  to  cope  with 
transport poverty

Startup Lab

Focus Group
workshops

HiReach  aims  to  address  the  mobility  needs  of 
different  groups  vulnerable  to  transport  poverty 
and  social  exclusion  -  such  as  people  with  reduced 
mobility, children, young and elderly people, women, 
migrants  and  ethnic  minorities,  those  on  a  low 
income  or  unemployed  -  to  favour  more  inclusive 
and  flexible  mobility  solutions.  The  project  also 
analyses geographical and spatial elements affecting 
transport poverty to figure out mobility options that 
can  simultaneously  combine  the  needs  of  several 
groups in different target areas like urban-peripheral, 
peri-urban, rural and remote or deprived territories.

Insights package
Solutions to transport
poverty for startups

European
multidisciplinary
workshop

HiReach  is  working  in  6  European  study  regions: 
Counties  of  Esslingen  and  Göppingen  (Germany), 
Naxos  and  Small  Cyclades  (Greece),  Inner  Area 
Southern  Salento  (Italy),  Guarda  and  Torres  Vedras 
(Portugal),  Buzau  (Romania),  North  and  South-East 
Luxembourg.

Showcase
event

By  combining  different  attributes  of  available 
transport  concepts  and  bottom-up  initiatives  with 
new  operational  schemes  and 
IT  applications, 
HiReach  explores  viable  business  models  for  small 
scale, modular and easily replicable mobility services 
that can be provided at affordable prices and/or with 
minimum subsidies. Thus, the project will contribute 
to  substantiate  and  make  clear  the  difference 
between  a  genuine  sharing  economy  that  can  solve 

mobility  poverty  challenges  and  a  profit-making 
collaborative  economy  that  needs  fair  regulation  of 
transport service providers.

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startups to beneﬁt from
a one-week follow-up period

The  HiReach  mechanism  is  based  on  the  creative 
work  of  start-ups  and  innovative  entrepreneurs, 
but  also  on  social  innovation  through  the  direct 
involvement of different social groups as developers, 
co-users and co-owners of the proposed solutions, in 
order to explore, generate and test inclusive mobility 
solutions.

startups to beneﬁt from
an in-depth three-month
follow-up period

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new inclusive mobility
solutions being tested

01/10/2017

30/09/2020

TRT TRASPORTI E TERRITORIO SRL

€2,024,875

http://www.hireach-project.eu

Coordinator

EU Contribution

Website

Shared mobility opportunities and challenges for European 
cities

The STARS project - Shared mobility opporTunities 
And  challenges  foR  European  citieS  –  aims  to 
explore and boost the use of car sharing in Europe. 

It  will  analyse  the  car  sharing  market,  measure 
the  benefits  of  different  services  and  compare 
their costs. The project will also study user profiles 
and behaviour. 

For  the  first  time,  STARS  will  also  look  into  the 
implications  and  impacts  of  car  sharing  rather 
than  on  the  implementation  of  the  service  itself. 
Impacts  on  other  transport  modes  (private  car, 
bike,  walking,  taxi,  public  transport…)  and  on  the 
car industry will be assessed, and impacts in terms 
of congestion, greenhouse gases, accessibility and 
social cohesion will also be quantified.

Thanks to the knowledge gained via the project, a policy 
toolkit  that  includes  guidelines  and  recommendations 
has  been  designed.  It  will  help  European  mobility 
stakeholders and policymakers make the right decisions 
and  implement  the  best  car  sharing  services  that  will 
maximise  environmental  and  social  benefits  and  help 
make European cities better and more affordable places 
to live.

31/03/2020

01/10/2017

POLITECNICO DI TORINO

€1,805,665

http://www.stars-h2020.eu

Coordinator

EU Contribution

Website

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Topic: Active modes

Topic: Active modes

H A N D S H A KE

HANDSHAKE

CityChangerCargoBike

©Handshake

© CityChangerCargoBike

Enabling  the  transferability  of  cycling  innovations  and 
assessment of its implications

Enabling  the  full  potential  of  bikes  to  transport  freight  and 
more passengers

Many European towns and cities face alarming levels 
of congestion, air and noise pollution, and a scarcity 
of public space. This decreases the quality of life and 
makes urban environments dangerous and inefficient 
for non-car users to navigate.

This will see cities identifying and applying innovative 
solutions  linked  to  topics  as  diverse  as  intelligent 
transport  systems,  socio-economic  assessments, 
nudging, communication, governance, and bike lanes, 
parking and sharing.

Cycling  is  a  powerful  way  to  tackle  these  problems 
and  to  transform  cities  into  more  sustainable, 
equitable and economically prosperous places.

CIVITAS  Handshake  is  supporting  cities  to  become 
cycle-friendly  for  all  by  working  with  three  world-
renowned Cycling Capitals – Copenhagen (Denmark), 
Amsterdam (the Netherlands), and Munich (Germany).

They  will  share  their  expertise  and  proven  cycling 
solutions with 10 aspiring cities from across the EU: 
Bordeaux  (France),  Bruges  (Belgium),  Cadiz  (Spain), 
Dublin  (Ireland),  Greater  Manchester  (UK),  Helsinki 
(Finland),  Krakow  (Poland),  Riga  (Latvia),  Rome  and 
Turin (Italy).

Three  transfer  processes  foster  this  empowerment: 
transition  management,  novel  assessment  and 
evaluation, and immersive study activities. A city-to-
city mentoring programme underpins this all.

Over  60  solutions  are  being  deployed  across 
four  thematic  areas:  awareness  and  education; 
and 
infrastructure 
assessment; planning, regulations, and standards.

services;  modelling 

and 

By helping to establish the conditions cycling needs 
to become an everyday, inclusive mode of transport, 
Handshake will boost cycling’s modal share, increase 
public  safety  and  health,  encourage  more  equitable 
and people-friendly use of public space, and reduce 
congestion and pollution. Ultimately, this will enhance 
cities’ attractiveness, economic competitiveness and 
liveability for all.

28/02/2022

01/09/2018

ISTITUTO DI STUDI PER L’INTEGRAZIONE DEI 
SISTEMI (I.S.I.S) - SOCIETA’COOPERATIVA

€4,998,594

https://handshakecycling.eu/

Our  cities  are  facing  complex  challenges  related  to 
urban  mobility,  which  are  predicted  to  worsen  as 
the volume of traffic caused by commercial delivery 
services  and  private  trips  increases.  Earlier  projects 
have  demonstrated  that  cargo  bikes  have  a  huge 
potential  to  tackle  these  challenges  as  they  can 
improve  the  image  and  general  levels  of  cycling, 
replace over 50 % of transport related trips in cities, 
as  well  as  enhance  air  quality  and  safety  levels.  At 
present however, this innovative solution is not fully 
deployed in any European cities. 

City Changer Cargo Bike (CCCB) exploits the limitless 
potential  of  cargo  bikes  promoting  their  usage 
amongst  public,  private,  and  commercial  users. 
Supported  by  the  Horizon2020  programme,  CCCB 
brings together 20 partners including cities, research 
institutes, NGOs, and industries from all over Europe 
in  the  quest  to  achieve  a  faster,  cost-effective  and 
larger scale deployment of this sustainable mobility 
option.  By  assessing  best  practices  across  Europe, 
CCCB will raise awareness and support the uptake of 
cargo bikes and cargo bike initiatives. In doing so, the 
project  will  foster  exciting  developments  that  offer 
more sustainable logistics operations, improve public 
spaces, engage citizens, and reduce traffic congestion. 

•  Increased  awareness  amongst  public,  private  and 

commercial stakeholders

•  The use of innovative tools for the take-up, scale-
up, and transfer between forerunner and follower 
cities

•  The  establishment  of  favourable  framework 

conditions for cargo bike use

•  A  wide 

roll-out  and 
Forerunner  cities,  Follower  cities 
consortium) and External follower cities

transferability 

through 
(within  the 

•  Reduced  congestion,  emissions;  increased  safety; 

improved public space and its usage.

The  project  has  already  produced  a  number  of 
important guidelines and brochures, which can all be 
downloaded on its website.

31/08/2021

01/09/2018

FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MOBILITAET Austrian 
Mobility Research FGM - AMOR Gemeinnutzige 
GMBH

€3,808,645

Coordinator

EU Contribution

Website

Coordinator

EU Contribution

Website

The expected results of the project are:

http://www.cyclelogistics.eu/

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PROSPERITY

Prosperity through innovation and promotion of Sustainable 
Urban Mobility Plans

FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MOBILITAET - Austrian Mobility 
Research FGM - AMOR Gemeinnutzige GMBH

31/08/2019

€3,188,049

01/09/2016

http://www.sump-network.eu

national  SUMP  activities.  Secondly,  in  a  development 
process  in  each  project  country,  in  which  the  national 
level interacted - and still interacts - with the cities and 
other  important  stakeholders  in  a  national  SUMP  task 
force. 

Ministries, agencies and cities met 55 times to exchange 
experience  on  their  national  and  regional  programmes 
and  to  learn  how  their  own  programme  could  be 
started  or  improved  by  their  own  national  SUMP  Task 
Force.  In  all  13  countries  of  focus,  national  /  regional 
SUMP  supporting  programmes  (or  roadmaps  for  a 
programme) have been designed with the support of and 
contributions from the highest level of administration in 
these countries / regions. 

four-day 

face-to-face 

To  spread  the  SUMP  message  to  cities,  and  to  build 
training 
capacity,  national 
sessions  in  national  languages  were  carried  out  in  10 
countries  for  a  total  of  8  different  training  topics  with 
more  than  300  trainees.  Training  materials  in  several 
languages were produced. In addition, 6 webinars were 
carried  out  which  reached  more  than  350  participants 

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now  a  clear  concept  for  Sustainable  Urban  Mobility  Plans  (SUMPs) 
right  across  the  European  Union.    Nonetheless,  take  up  of  SUMPs  in 
some  countries  has  remained  low.  The  reason  for  this  is  clear:  there 
is  a  gap  between  the  needs  and  demands  of  the  cities  that  develop 
and implement SUMPs, and the higher levels of government who can 

and should prepare the ground for the cities to 
develop  and  implement  SUMPs.  The  main  aim 
of CIVITAS PROSPERITY has been to close this 
gap. 

The  majority  of  the  activities  of  the  project 
took  place  in  Southern,  Central-eastern  and 
Eastern Europe where SUMPs were and remain 
something  new.  The  low  take  up  of  SUMPs 
was  the  result  of  several  factors:  different 
cultures,  different  planning  traditions,  and 
a  lack  of  understanding  as  to  why  a  SUMP 
is  an  innovative  and  useful  tool  and  not  just 
a  tick-box  exercise.  In  these  regions  the 
communication  of  the  SUMP  concept,  building 
political  and  internal  buy-in  for  SUMP,  and  a 
common  understanding  of  the  concept  are  at 
least as important to develop as producing the 
SUMP document itself.

The main concept of PROSPERITY was to get the 
national  level  involved  actively  in  supporting 
cities to develop SUMPs. This happened in two 
ways:  firstly,  in  regular  international  peer-to-
peer  exchanges  between  the  national  and 
regional level authorities of different countries, 
where  they  could  learn  about  each  other’s 

from 28 countries. On top of this, 32 city level coaching 
events were held in 11 cities where experts and SUMP 
champion  city  representatives  gave  tailored  advice  to 
those cities on selected SUMP topics. 

PROSPERITY also organised the 5th international SUMP 
Conference in Dubrovnik in 2017 which had around 400 
participants,  and  the  project  was  presented  at  more 
than 40 international conferences and workshops.

Among other results, PROSPERITY developed 16 multi-
language 
innovation  briefs,  three  thematic  SUMP 
guidelines  and  three  good  practice  video  clips.  A 
particularly  effective  output  is  a  series  of  interviews 
with  “SUMP  ambassadors”  -  26  politicians,  experts, 
representatives  of  cities  and  academics  from  several 
countries - to help convince other stakeholders to deal 
with SUMP. 

All  results,  products  and  other  materials,  including  the 
interviews,  are  available  free  of  charge  on  the  project 
website.

© PROSPERITY

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SUMP-related topic guides will complement this. 

Moving  beyond  the  written  word,  the  CIVITAS  Tool 
Inventory - which SUMPs-Up helped develop - is a rich 
online  resource  with  over  180  tools.  Local  authorities 
can  use  it  to  pinpoint  the  tool(s)  best  suited  to  tackle 
their urban mobility issues.

More  than  200  mobility  practitioners  were  offered  the 
unique  opportunity  to  attend  more  than  60  learning 
activities, including seven online courses, six webinars, 
eight  workshops  and  study  visits.  These  detailed  the 
different phases of the SUMP process, whilst providing 
best  practice  examples  and  prompting  cities  to  review 
their own planning practices. 

Yet  the  most  effective  change  is  often  achieved  in  the 
presence  of  people.  By  the  project’s  end,  nearly  100 
planning authorities from throughout and beyond the EU 
will have tested the most effective concepts, approaches 
and  methods  in  SUMP  practice  through  the  SUMPs-Up 
Learning Programmes.

These  intensive,  participant-driven  capacity  building 
supported 
programmes  have  accompanied  and 
planning  authorities  through  various  stages  of  the 
SUMP  development  process,  utilising  15  webinars, 
15  moderated  e-courses,  15  workshops,  and  10  peer 
reviews.

A new, enthusiastic SUMP community has been created 
that is ready to spread the SUMP message and knowledge 
to a new generation of towns and cities. 

Although SUMPs-Up’s chapter in the EU SUMP story will 
soon close, its work is helping SUMPs to be embraced as 
the EU mobility planning standard. With its rich selection 
of materials and role in forming the next wave of SUMP 
advocates,  the  project’s  end  marks  only  the  beginning 
of its impact.

All SUMPs-Up materials are available on its website.

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S U M P S - U P

European programme for accelerating the take up of 
Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans

ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH (ICLEI EUROPASEKRETARIAT GMBH)*

29/02/2020

€3,999,921

http://sumps-up.eu/

01/09/2016

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accelerate  the  uptake  of  Sustainable  Urban  Mobility  Plans  (SUMPs) 
across  the  European  Union.  However,  while  the  number  of  SUMPs 
and  their  advocates  are  growing  steadily,  uptake  levels  vary  greatly 
depending on the location.

A  comprehensive  needs  assessment  conducted  at  the  start  of  the 
project,  including  answers  from  328 
cities,  has  confirmed  this.  To  bridge 
this  gap,  SUMPs-Up  has  focused  on 
countries  with  low  SUMP  adoption 
rates  and  where  the  negative  effects 
of transport are most severe, assisting 
planning  authorities 
to  overcome 
barriers  to  SUMP  development  and 
implementation.  

A  series  of  publications  provide 
planners  with  expert  guidance  on 
crucial  SUMP  topics.  Three  manuals 
advise  cities  how  to  select  measures 
systematically  -  each  one  is  tailored 
to  a  different  city  profile.  After 
measures have been chosen, a plan is 
needed  to  apply  them:  a  report  walks 
mobility planners through the steps of 
developing a SUMP Action Plan.  

The project has also been instrumental 
in  creating  the  improved  and  updated 
second  edition  of 
the  EU  SUMP 
Guidelines,  due  for  release  at  the 
CIVITAS  Forum  in  October  2019.  Five 

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Topic: Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning

Topic: Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning

S U M P - P L U S

SUMP PLUS

Park4SUMP

Sustainable  Urban  Mobility  Planning:  pathways  and  links  to 
urban systems 

Strategic  integration  of  innovative  parking  management 
solutions into SUMP policies

This  new  three-year  project  is  designed  to  address 
urban  mobility-related  challenges  and  maximise 
opportunities  for  Sustainable  Urban  Mobility  Plan 
(SUMP) and Sustainable Urban Logistics Plan (SULP) 
uptake. 

development, such as education, health and land-
use  planning,  whilst  reflecting  technological  and 
contextual developments

•  Identify  solutions  that  increase  efficiency  and 
sustainability in the freight and passenger sectors

It will do this by building on the strengths of existing 
SUMPs  and  SULPs  and  developing  a  rigorous 
evidence base through a co-created City Laboratories 
approach.

•  Devise  and  demonstrate  new  partnerships  and 
business models that help meet mobility objectives 
in  a  cost-effective  way,  through  suitable  public-
private partnerships.

This will be put into practice in six EU cities: Alba Iulia 
(Romania),  Antwerp  (Belgium),  Greater  Manchester 
(United Kingdom),  Klaipeda (Lithuania), Lucca (Italy) 
and Platanias (Greece).

The experience from these diverse locations will help 
SUMP-PLUS  develop  and  apply  transition  pathways 
towards  more  sustainable  cities,  whilst  considering 
the  need  to  strengthen  links  with  other  urban 
development-related policy fields. 

Methodologies  and  analytics  will  also  be  delivered 
demonstrating  how  to  customise  pathways  to  cities 
with  different  characteristics,  capabilities,  resources 
and aspirations. 

SUMP-PLUS’s four primary policy objectives are to:

•  Develop  and  apply  context-specific  mobility 
transformation pathways that enable cities to map 
out implementation pathways

•  Demonstrate how cities can develop stronger ties 
with other policy areas necessary for holistic urban 

urban 

governance 

Achieving  this  entails  numerous  steps:  developing 
appropriate 
arrangements 
and  advanced  analytics;  extensive  stakeholder 
engagement  and  output  co-creation;  producing 
guidance  suitable  for  various  target  groups;  and 
maximising  impact  through  targeted  dissemination, 
capacity building, knowledge transfer and exploitation

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01/09/2019

STAD ANTWERPEN

€3,987,865

n/a

Park4SUMP  is  an  EU-funded  Horizon  2020  project 
dedicated  to  showing  how  cities  can  adapt  parking 
management  policies  and  deploy  effective  and 
innovative  solutions  as  part  of  their  Sustainable 
Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs).

Park4SUMP    project’s  methodology  is  built  around 
tailor  made  advice  and  support  to  cities  in  Europe, 
delivering 6 key outputs: 
•  16 partner cities will improve their parking policies 
and pilot implementation of more than 50 parking 
management good practice solutions

•  14  national  governments  will 

increase  their 
knowledge as to how high-level government laws 
and  regulations  facilitate  or  hinder  the  use  of 
innovative  and  effective  parking  management  in 
their cities

•  External  follower  cities  will  benefit  from  capacity 
building  and  exploitation  of  results  to  improve 
integration  of  parking  and  SUMP  policies  and 
implement  about  300  parking  management 
approaches

•  A  parking  policy  and  management  audit  tool, 
PARKPAD,  will  be  developed  and  piloted  in  16 
Park4SUMP cities

•  PARKPAD  audits  in  all  partner  cities  and  an 
additional 10 (external to the consortium) cities
•  Tailor  made  Park4SUMP  training  programme 
(national  training  events  and  webinars)  for  local, 
regional and national authorities in 16 countries. 

A real game changer in urban parking management 
will  be  the  development  of  a  new  tool,  PARKPAD.  It 
provides an audit process that helps cities to review 
their  parking  policies  and  the  organisational  set-
up  for  them,  and  to  achieve  consensus  on  these 
improvements. PARKPAD will result in a Parking Policy 
Quality  Report.  From  this  common  starting  point, 
the  stakeholder  group  and  the  auditor  will  jointly 
create  an  agreed  PARKPAD  Action  Plan  as  part  of 
the city’s SUMP, comprising innovative, effective and 
locally  acceptable  package  of  parking  management 
measures. 

Park4SUMP  also  coordinated  the  editing  of  a 
Practitioner  Guide  on  Parking  and  SUMP,  to  be 
launched at the Civitas Forum 2019 in Graz.  

The  project  invites  cities  in  Europe  to  take  part  in 
its National Parking Policy and Management training 
activities,  webinars  and  PARKPAD  auditor  training 
events starting from Autumn 2019.

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01/09/2018

MOBIEL 21 VZW

€3,501,144

http://www.civitas-park4SUMP.eu

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Topic: Urban freight and logistics

Topic: Urban freight and logistics

SUCCESS

U-TURN

Sustainable Urban Consolidation Centres for construction sites

Rethinking  urban  transportation  through  advanced  tools  and 
supply chain collaboration

Construction related transport is a big component of 
urban traffic and can be highly disruptive to daily life. 
The SUCCESS project has investigated an alternative 
approach  where,  instead  of  transporting  goods  and 
materials directly to a site, they were taken first to a 
construction consolidation centre (CCC).

The  idea  of  a  consolidation  centre  is  related  to  the 
possibility of aggregating different loads dropped off 
by carriers and making deliveries to the construction 
site using cleaner vehicles with a higher load factor.

SUCCESS’ insights were built on data collected from 
four  separate  construction  projects,  in  Luxembourg 
City, Paris, Valencia and Verona. 

The  simulations  showed  that  an  improved  supply 
chain  management  could  reduce  the  number  of 
freight  vehicles  between  42  and  54%,  noxious 
emissions  between  8  and  41%,  and  the  distance 
travelled  between  20  and  42%.  Furthermore,  small 
deliveries  can  be  entirely  eliminated  and  the  load 
factor can be increased by 41% to 232%. 

Proper  management  of  a  CCC  can  make  it  a  viable 
business,  with  a  payback  of  less  than  a  year  in  the 
best-case.

The  project  developed  an  open  toolkit,  including  a 
cost/benefit  analysis  tool  to  assess  the  impact  of  a 
CCC,  and  a  tool  to  identify  the  ideal  location  for  a 
centre.

The  project’s  work  is  already  having  a  practical 
impact,  with  CCCs  implemented  in  cities  such  as 
Florence and Brussels.

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30/04/2018

LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND 
TECHNOLOGY 

€3,238,118

http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/193217_en.html

Coordinator

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logistics 

practice. 

However, 

third-party 

Vertical  collaboration  schemes  such  as  backhauling 
between  manufacturers  and  retailers  is  a  widely 
implemented 
horizontal 
collaborative  logistics  -  developed  when  suppliers, 
(3PLs)  with 
retailers  and 
different  supply  chains  cooperate  with  competitors 
and  with  non-competitors  -  has  gained  a  lot  of 
attention.  Their  enhancement  can  facilitate  and 
accelerate  the  transition  to  a  modern  logistics 
system  by  effectively  minimising  operational  costs, 
ameliorating  environmental  impact  and  increasing 
efficiency. The U-TURN project has provided evidence 
of  their  advantages  and  implementation  challenges 
on food distribution through five pilots: 
•  Horizontal  collaborative  logistics  by  using  shared 
vehicles in the Attika area: The Barilla and NESTLE 
case

•  Horizontal  collaborative  logistics  by  using  an 
Urban Consolidation Center in the Attika area: The 
AB Vassilopoulos and Metro – MyMarket case

•  Horizontal  collaborative  logistics  by  using  the 
U-TURN  platform  in  the  Attika  area:  The  case  of 
four 3PL companies

•  Horizontal  collaboration  among  fresh  food  local 

producers in the Milan urban area

•  Using  e-cargo  bikes  for  online  groceries  home 
delivery  in  the  London  urban  area:  The  Sainsbury 
case 

•  Collaboration in urban distribution of online grocery 

orders in London urban area.

Based  on  the  pilots’  outcomes,  it  can  be  concluded 
that  there  is  theoretical  and  practical  evidence  that 
collaboration improves economic, environmental, and 
social sustainability of food distribution in cities. 

improvements  achieved  by 

The 
collaboration 
depend on the operating conditions and distribution 
parameters examined in line with model assumptions 
put forward in each pilot.

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01/06/2015

INTRASOFT INTERNATIONAL SA 

€2,735,543

http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/193351_en.html

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operators all over Europe – through city “twinning” and 
a user forum. In this way, ELIPTIC extended its already 
significant practical impacts.

ELIPTIC delivered not only the technical research results 
set  out  in  the  work  plan,  but  it  also  achieved  political 
success.  One  example  is  the  ‘factor  100’  campaign 
–  condensing  research  results  to  a  clear  and  simple 
message  which  was  even  delivered  on  beer  coasters: 
“Did you know that it takes 100 electric cars to achieve 
the  impacts  of  one  (18m)  bus  (but  there  is  not  100 
times the funding for electric buses)”. “Factor 100” was 
the  starting  point  of  an  initiative  from  Bremen  which 
called  for  a  €100  million  national  funding  programme 
for electric buses in Germany. In May 2017, the initiative 
was  unanimously  adopted  by  the  German  Conference 
of  Ministers  for  Environment  and  in  August  2017,  the 
German government announced the funding programme, 
which allows the procurement of 400-500 e-buses per 
year in German cities starting in 2018.

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Electrification of public transport in cities

FREIE HANSESTADT BREMEN

€5,988,745

http://www.eliptic-project.eu

01/06/2015

31/05/2018

by  1)  integrating  existing  electric  public  transport 
infrastructure and 2) using it more efficiently. 

One of the three technical pillars dealt with the use of 
existing electric public transport systems (including light 
rail, metro, tram and trolleybus) for the electrification of 
multimodal mobility. 

Another  pillar  dealt  with  increasing  the  efficiency  of 
the  electrical  system,  for  example,  through  the  use  of 
energy storage or reversible substations. 

The  third  pillar  was  a  multi-purpose  use  of  electric 
infrastructure,  especially  looking  into  how  recharging 
infrastructure  can  be  used  for  other  types  of  electric 
vehicles  and  which  technical,  legal  and  fiscal  barriers 
need to be addressed.

ELIPTIC  analysed  20  concepts  of  electrifying  public 
transport  in  11  cities  (Barcelona,  Bremen,  Brussels, 
Eberswalde,  Gdynia, 
London, 
Oberhausen, Szeged and Warsaw) to develop tailor-made 
solutions  and  recommendations.  The  research  results 
were subject of intense exchange with further cities and 

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The  H2020  project  ELIPTIC  combined  two  very  crucial  aspects  of 
sustainable urban mobility: 1) the electrification of transport as a path 
to zero emission mobility and 2) public transport as the backbone of 
space-efficient  mobility.  With  these  practical  and  political  research 
aspects, the City of Bremen coordinated the ELIPTIC project - involving 
33  partners  from  8  EU  countries  representing  research,  industrial 
like 

suppliers,  operators,  networks 
UITP and POLIS. 

The 
topic  of  electrifying  public 
transport is very high on the agenda of 
cities and at the national and European 
level  for  good  reasons.  These  include 
reducing  local  air  quality  problems, 
reducing  greenhouse  gas  emissions 
and tackling transport problems. 

ELIPTIC evaluated various approaches 
and technologies for electrifying public 
that 
transport  and  demonstrated 
further take-up of electric vehicles can 
be done cost-efficiently  by integrating 
multi-purpose  charging  into  existing 
public transport infrastructure. ELIPTIC 
received  funding  of  €5.9  million  with 
which it realised 20 different use cases 
in the form of both practical operations 
and feasibility studies.

The  overall 
concept  and  main 
assumption  underpinning  ELIPTIC  are 
that further take-up of electric vehicles 
cost-efficiently 
can  be 

supported 

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Topic: Electric mobility in cities

Topic: Electric mobility in cities

GreenCharge

A  zero  emission  transport  system  based  on  electric  vehicles 
running on green energy

The  overall  objective  of  the  GreenCharge  project 
is  to  convincingly  demonstrate  how  technological 
solutions  and  associated  business  models  can  be 
integrated  and  deployed  to  overcome  barriers  to 
wide-scale adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). 

The project takes important steps towards achieving 
one of the dreams of a modern city: a zero-emission 
transport  system  based  on  electric  vehicles  running 
on green energy, while air pollution, traffic jams and 
parking problems become things of the past. 

Electric motors may make the wheels go round, but 
money  makes  the  world  go  round.  GreenCharge  is 
therefore devising and testing business models that 
encourage the use of electric vehicles and the sharing 
of  energy  resources,  allowing  all  those  involved  to 
cooperate in an economically viable way. 

GreenCharge  is  testing  all  of  these  innovations  in 
three pilots in Barcelona, Bremen and Oslo. Together, 
these  pilots  cover  a  wide  variety  of  factors:  vehicle 
type (scooters, cars, bikes), ownership model (private, 
shared  individual  use),  charging  locations  (private 
residences,  workplaces,  public  spaces,  transport 
hubs),  energy  management  (using  solar  power, 
load  balancing  at  one  charging  station  or  within  a 
neighborhood,  battery  swapping),  and  charging 
support (booking, roaming, priority charging). 

31/08/2021

01/09/2018

SINTEF AS

€4,999,965

https://www.greencharge2020.eu/

Coordinator

EU Contribution

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© Meister

Meister

Mobility environmentally-friendly, integrated and economically 
sustainable  through  innovative  electromobility  recharging 
infrastructure and new business models

The  three  major  barriers  for  the  deployment  of 
electric  vehicles  (EVs)  in  Europe  –  the  high  cost  of 
vehicles,  the  low  level  of  consumer  acceptance, 
and the lack of recharging stations – form a vicious 
circle.  The  MEISTER  project,  funded  by  H2020  and 
formed by 11 partners from 4 EU countries, proposes 
to  break  this  circle  by  designing,  validating  and 
promoting  innovative  business  models  to  make 
it  more  attractive  for  operators  to  install  charging 
infrastructure and for potential customers to use it.

MEISTER  aims  to  change  this  market  paradigm  by 
delivering  a  set  of  tools  to  foster  e-mobility  large 
scale adoption by: 
•  Demonstrating  innovative,  sustainable  business 
models to lower installation and operation costs of 
charging infrastructure

•  Optimising  usage  of  infrastructure  by  the  smart 

combination of charging and parking services

•  Integrating EVs within Sustainable Urban Mobility 

Plans (SUMPs)

•  Providing  interoperable  platforms  and  services 
to  users  for  an  easy,  convenient  and  barrier-free 
access to charging, billing and smart grid services, 
including  an  increase  of  the  use  of  renewable 
energy  systems  (RES)  and  self-generation  to 
power EVs.

These  solutions  will  be  tested  and  validated  in  3 
urban  areas:  Malaga  (Spain),  Berlin  (Germany),  and 
Gothenburg (Sweden). The MEISTER pilots will involve 
51,500 users, 1,000 EVs and 660 charging points. 

The  MEISTER  approach  can  be  transferred  to  cities 
across the EU. It expects to increase the EVs demand 
by  15%,  reduce  the  installation  costs  of  charging 
points by 20%, help reduce charging prices by 20%, 
increase by 30% the usage of RES to charge EVs, and  
reduce the CO2 emissions in 199,750 Tons

31/08/2021

01/09/2018

ETRA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA

€6,032,336

http://www.meister.eu

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Topic: Electric mobility in cities

Topic: Electric mobility in cities

ELVITEN

STEVE

Electrified  L-Category  vehicles  integrated  into  transport 
and electricity networks

Smart-taylored  L-Category  electric  vehicle  demonstration 
in heterogeneous urban use-cases

ELVITEN familiarises users with light electric vehicles 
(EL-Vs).  The  project  has  designed  and  organised 
one-year  long  demonstrations  of  electric  bicycles, 
scooters,  tricycles  and  quadricycles  in  six  European 
cities: Trikala, Berlin, Malaga, Genoa, Bari and Rome. 
The vehicles are available for commuting and leisure 
trips by private users and for delivery of light goods. 

A  variety  of  tools  has  been  developed  to  support 
and  motivate  users  to  use  EL-Vs  instead  of  fossil 
fuel  vehicles.  These  include  the  Digital  Coach  app, 
which  advises  about  driving  behaviour,  the  Booking 
app, that allows users to book vehicles and charging 
points,  the  Incentive  app,  to  collect  usage  points 
and  earn  awards,  and  the  Serious  game  app,  that 
provides useful information about the advantages of 
using EL-Vs. 

The project collects logs of trips done with EL-Vs, and 
traces  usage  and  users’  experiences  and  opinions 
after their trips based on the apps and services. The 
analysis of the collected data will result in guidelines 
for service providers, planning authorities and vehicle 
manufacturers to improve the integration of EL-Vs in 
the transport and electricity networks.

STEVE  is  developed  as  a  stepping  stone  towards  a 
vision  of  future  mobility  that  provides  sustainable, 
seamless,  automated  and  personalised  travel  on 
demand.

STEVE  combines  the  forces  of  21  partners  from  7 
European countries, coordinated by Infineon Austria, 
with a total budget of € 9.5 million.

Understanding  how  a  city’s  mobility  system  should 
evolve  is  complex.  The  STEVE  project  intends  to 
maximise  the  impact  of  the  demonstrations  in 
different European cities, generate vital data for the 
next generation of EL-Vs, and support the mind-shift 
necessary for a successful integration of EL-Vs in the 
urban transport system. 

STEVE will run four demonstrations in four different 
STEVE  cities:  Turin  and  Venaria  in  Italy,  Villach  in 
Austria and Calvià in Spain. In each city, well-defined 
target  groups  (ageing  urban  population,  tourists, 
commuters, students…) will be involved to test either 
the STEVE(JAC) EL-V quadricycle (seen in the picture) 
or other forms of EL-Vs, mainly, e-bikes.

Since  each  city  has  a  different  focus  and  differs  in 
its  objectives,  a  common  methodology  framework, 
which covers these prerequisites, will be established. 
The  Assessment  Plan  will  inherit  concepts  from 
established  methods  (e.g.,  the  FESTA  and  AMITRAN 
(e.g., 
methodologies)  and  other  EC  projects 

SilverStream),  to  derive  a  common  method  tailored 
to the objectives and needs of STEVE. 

The  STEVE  demonstration  activities  will  be  based 
on a stepwise approach in order to realise its set of 
objectives. Two iterations are foreseen to learn from 
the  experiments  and  apply  the  corrective  actions 
along  the  course  of  the  project.  The  scientific  and 
technical objectives, as well as the specific objectives 
of the STEVE cities, affect different impact categories, 
namely environment, user behaviour and mobility.

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01/11/2017

INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG

€9,517,870

http://www.steve-project.eu/

Coordinator

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© ELVITEN

31/10/2020

01/11/2017

INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER 
SYSTEMS

€7,840,649

https://www.elviten-project.eu/en/

Coordinator

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Topic: New technologies and services, innovative infrastructure

End-to-End Approach for Mobility-as-a-Service tools, 
business models, enabling framework and evidence for 
European seamless mobility

Topic: New technologies and services, innovative infrastructure

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© More

© MaaS4EU

MORE

Multi-modal optimisation of road-space in Europe

The MORE project examines the challenges faced by 
main roads in cities that feed into the European road 
transport network, resulting from the many competing 
demands  on  their  limited  road  space  and  capacity. 
It  looks  into  how  these  might  be  better  addressed 
through  improved  planning,  design,  operation  and 
management.  These  demands  come  from  ‘Link’ 
users  (people  in  various  methods  of  transport  that 
are  travelling  along  these  corridors  to  reach  other 
areas) and ‘Place’ users (people who live in, work in 
or visit buildings alongside the street, or who engage 
in social and economic activities on the footways).

MORE is examining current – and future - user needs 
and conflicts on selected main roads in five European 
cities  (Budapest,  Constanta,  Lisbon,  London  and 
Malmo),  and  how  these  might  be  addressed  more 
comprehensively and imaginatively. 

It is developing four tools: 

•  Methods  to  help  develop  more  innovative  design 

options

•  Enhanced tools for public engagement in identifying 

problems and developing new street designs

•  Improved  modelling  tools  to  simulate  how  street 
influenced  by 

movements  and  activities  are 
different designs

•  Enhanced  methods  to  assess  alternative  design 

options and to decide what are the best solutions 
in particular contexts.

MORE  is  taking  a  very  broad  and  comprehensive 
approach. It is treating the whole street as a complex 
‘eco-system’  and  looking  at  how  better  outcomes 
could be achieved by dynamically managing the use 
of road and kerb-space, or using electronic road signs 
and markings. 

31/08/2021

01/09/2018

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

€5,537,114

https://www.uitp.org/more

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MaaS4EU

End-to-End  approach  for  Mobility-as-a-Service  (MaaS)  tools, 
business models, enabling framework and evidence for European 
seamless mobility

The main goal of MaaS4EU is to provide quantifiable 
evidence, frameworks and tools to enable the MaaS 
concept, by addressing challenges under four pillars:
•  Business:  MaaS4EU  designs  prototype  business 
models  for  a  cross-company  MaaS  enterprise 
involving  multiple  actors  within  the  EU  single 
market

the 

explores 

•  End-Users:  MaaS4EU 

needs, 
preferences,  demand  and  acceptance  of  various 
end-user  groups  for  MaaS  services  and  products 
via MaaS living labs and real-life demonstrations
•  Technology & Data: MaaS4EU designs and develops 
an  open  platform.  Any  Mobility  Service  Provider 
could use the platform to test, develop and scale 
its services

•  Policy:  MaaS4EU  proposes  the  required  “MaaS 
Policy  Framework”  providing  guidelines  for  a  co-
operative  transport  ecosystem  of  MaaS  across 
Europe.

The  impact  of  MaaS  services  on  end-users’  short-
term (activity patterns) and mid-term (car-ownership) 
travel choices are monitored and evaluated to provide 
feedback  to  authorities  about  the  advantages  and 
disadvantages of the concept.

MaaS4EU  designs  prototype  business  models  
involving multiple actors within the EU single market 
(Public  and  Private  mobility  service  providers, 
Payment and security platforms, and People). 

MaaS4EU  also  supports  travellers  in  selecting  the 
mobility  plans  that  best  fit  their  needs  considering 
the modes included in their MaaS purchased services, 
their daily activities, the real-time availability of the 
different services, and overall environmental impact.

The  holistic  MaaS4EU  solutions  are  demonstrated 
and validated in real life via Living Labs at three pilot 
areas  (Greater  Manchester,  Greater  Luxembourg, 
Budapest).

31/05/2020

01/06/2017

INTRASOFT INTERNATIONAL SA

€3,660,256

http://www.maas4eu.eu/

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Topic: New technologies and services, innovative infrastructure

Topic: New technologies and services, innovative infrastructure

© CoExist

CoExist

© GECKO

GECKO

‘AV-Ready’  transport  models  and  road  infrastructure  for 
the coexistence of automated and conventional vehicles

Developing  regulatory  frameworks  and  governance  models 
for the transition to a new mobility

Connected  and  automated  driving  (CAD)  will  have 
significant  impacts  on  most  transport  and  urban 
planning related activities of a city. To ensure that the 
roll out of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) 
is in line with sustainable urban mobility goals, local 
authorities  will  have  to  play  a  key  role  and  should 
take the lead with proactive planning approaches. 

The mission of CoEXist is to systematically strengthen 
the  capacities  of  road  authorities  and  other  urban 
mobility stakeholders in preparation for the transition 
towards  a  shared  road  network,  with  an  increasing 
share  of  connected  and  automated  vehicles  at 
progressively higher automation levels.

Following  a  trans-disciplinary  approach,  CoEXist 
has  developed  an  automation-ready  framework  to 
support  local  authorities  in  reducing  uncertainties 
and building up their capacity to make structured and 
informed decisions about CAV deployment in a mixed 
road environment. 

The  project  has  developed  functionalities  for 
microscopic  and  macroscopic  modelling 
tools, 
enabling  them  to  consider  different  types  of  CAVs. 
Through  their  application 
in  eight  strategically 
selected user cases in Helmond (Netherlands), Milton 
Keynes (United Kingdom), Gothenburg (Sweden) and 
Stuttgart  (Germany),  CoEXist  will  assess  to  what 
extent  road  infrastructure  is  automation-ready  and 

whether  the  introduction  of  CAVs  improves  traffic 
performance, space efficiency, and safety. 

This  will  help 
identify  adaptation  and  design 
recommendations,  towards  an  optimal  exploitation 
of the potential benefits of CAD in urban mobility.

GECKO’s  overall  goal  is  to  provide  authorities  with 
tools  and  recommendations  for  new  regulatory 
frameworks to lead the transition to the new mobility 
era of cooperative, inclusive, competitive, sustainable 
and interconnected mobility across all modes.

impacts  of  disruptive 
technological  and  social 
technologies and business models on regulatory and 
governance  frameworks.  Finally,  a  Compliance  Map 
will visualise the results of the Dashboard using a set 
of case studies. 

31/04/2020

01/05/2017

RUPPRECHT CONSULT-FORSCHUNG & 
BERATUNG GMBH

€3,474,068

https://www.h2020-coexist.eu/

Coordinator

EU Contribution

Website

The project has six objectives:
•  Provide  a  comprehensive  and  coherent  picture  of 
disruptive technologies, new mobility services and 
business models that are currently available or will 
be available in the future (up to 2040)

•  Review and map regulatory policies and governance 

models

•  Assess  and  monitor  the  necessary  characteristics 
and  requirements  of  regulatory  schemes  and 
governance levels which are deemed necessary to 
accommodate disruptive mobility solutions
•  Provide recommendations to policy makers
•  Establish channels for consultation, communication, 
co-operation and collaboration among stakeholders 
to co-design regulatory approaches

•  Disseminate the GECKO findings and tools.

GECKO will develop three products that will support 
authorities in creating the most appropriate regulatory 
framework  and  governance  model.  The  Knowledge 
Bank  will  present  a  state  of  play  on  innovation 
and  new  mobility  services,  while  the  Regulatory 
Frameworks  Dashboard  will  assess  the  economic, 

GECKO  will  allow  for  the  effective  introduction  of 
innovative  new  mobility  technologies  and  business 
models,  while  at  the  same  time  safeguarding  an 
adequate level of security, safety, data privacy, and 
social protection.

31/05/2021

01/12/2018

UNION INTERNATIONALE DES TRANSPORTS 
PUBLICS

€1,996,781

http://h2020-gecko.eu/

Coordinator

EU Contribution

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All  the  ECCENTRIC  measures  have  been  closely 
described  in  factsheets,  which  are  available  on  the 
CIVITAS  website  and  which  include  information  on 
solutions,  expected  results  and  business  models.  The 
factsheets will be revised by the end of 2019, once the 
evaluation of the measures is done and the real impact 
of each new solution can be confirmed. The factsheets 
and  other  promotional  material  have  been  distributed 
in  dozens  of  local,  national  and  international  mobility 
events, creating interest towards the new solutions and 
sustainable mobility in general. 

At the end of project in spring 2020, a reader-friendly 
final report will be published including presentations of 
the cities and their measures. The report will be available 
in English, German, Spanish, Bulgarian and Finnish.

During  the  project,  several  cities  have  been  recruited 
to  follow  and  later  also  to  replicate  the  actions  of  the 
CIVITAS ECCENTRIC cities. The follower cities are closely 
engaged  in  the  project  activities,  regularly  attending 
technical  site  visits,  workshops,  and  webinars  to 
understand  how  the  ECCENTRIC  measures  could  work 
for  their  city  too.  Cities  such  as  Budapest,  Granollers 
and Uppsala have joined the group of about 20. 

During  the  last  year  of  the  project  in  2020  replication 

packages  will  be  produced  including  all  the  essential 
information  to  support  implementation  of  these  new 
mobility solutions in any city.

Even  though  the  project  is  in  progress  until  autumn 
2020, some common drivers and barriers have already 
been identified by the project partners.

The drivers are:

•   Alignment with policies and objectives

•   High visibility through communication

•   Pressure from public opinion

•   Economic incentives

•   Existing networks and infrastructure

The barriers are:

•   Issues with land ownership and allocation

•   Rapidly  changing  landscape  of  mobility  services/

options/supply

•   High 

segmentation  of  users/needs/preferences/

capacities

•   Lack of political support 

•   Long-term financing.

CIVITAS ECCENTRIC

Innovative solutions for sustainable mobility for people 
in suburban city districts and emission of free freight 
logistics in urban centres

AYUNTAMIENTO DE MADRID

€17,356,348

https://civitas.eu/eccentric

01/09/2016

31/08/2020

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Within  CIVITAS  ECCENTRIC,  the  cities  of  Madrid,  Stockholm,  Munich, 
Turku and Ruse are working together to overcome challenges related 
to  mobility  in  suburban  districts  and  achieving  city  logistics  that  are 
clean, silent, and CO₂ emission-free - two important areas that have 
historically received less attention in urban mobility policies. European 
cities  have  created  liveable  and  attractive  city  centres,  but  there 
remains  a  conflict  between  providing 
high-quality  public  space  and  meeting 
the  accessibility  requirements  of  freight 
deliveries.  Higher  car  usage  in  suburban 
areas  also  represents  an  issue  that  has 
gone largely unsolved. 

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this  situation,  CIVITAS 
To  address 
ECCENTRIC 
the 
demonstrated 
potential  and  replicability  of  50  new 
mobility  solutions  in  five  “Living  Lab” 
areas 
in  close  partnership  with  the 
private  sector.  The  measures  have  been 
divided into six thematic work packages, 
which are:

•   Inclusive  urban  planning,  new  parking 

policies and mobility management

•   Mobility as a Service

•   Enabling safe walking and cycling

•   Efficient  and  clean  public  transport 

solutions

•   Promoting the uptake of clean vehicles

•   Towards  better  and  cleaner  urban 

freight logistics.

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CIVITAS PORTIS

P O R T

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PORT-cities: integrating sustainability

STAD ANTWERPEN

€16,376,775

https://civitas.eu/portis

01/09/2016

31/08/2020

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Port cities deal with some unique challenges, from getting cruise ship 
passengers to the city center, to routing truck traffic, to docking ships. 
Given their multi-modal nature – road, air, rail and sea – they are the 
perfect  place  to  try  out  new  solutions  encompassing  all  aspects  of 
mobility. 

CIVITAS  PORTIS  is  implementing  a  number  of  initiatives  in  five 
geographically, culturally and climatically diverse port cities in Europe, 
located on the North Sea (Aberdeen and Antwerp), the Mediterranean 
Sea (Trieste), the Black Sea (Constanta), and the Baltic Sea (Klaipeda), 
as well as in a follower port city in China 
(Ningbo).

The  five  living  laboratories  are  testing 
49  innovative  mobility  solutions  ranging 
from  newly-emerging  technologies  to 
policy-based  and  soft  measures  in  four 
areas:  better 
cooperation; 
healthier  and  more  sustainable  port 
cities; integrated, clean mobility systems; 
and more efficient freight transport. 

city-port 

living 

The 
laboratories  are  not  the 
only  ones  who  will  benefit  from  these 
measures:    CIVITAS  PORTIS  helps  cities 
work  together  to  generate  and  build 
innovation, while assessing how effective 
their  efforts  are.  It  transfers  the  most 
useful  innovations  to  other  port  cities 
and marketplaces. The brand new second 
edition of the CIVITAS PORTIS innovation 
brochure is available for download on the 
CIVITAS PORTIS website. 

All images © CIVITAS PORTIS

CIVITAS  PORTIS  has  already  brought  about  some 
significant  changes  with  consistent  gains  for  public 
transport,  walking  and  cycling  in  all  cities’  living 
laboratories. 

The umbrella brand, «Smart Ways to Antwerp», involves 
a  huge  number  of  partners  and  stakeholders  working 
together to create a shift towards sustainable mobility, 
aimed  at  informing,  raising  awareness,  supporting 
the  development  of  innovative  mobility  solutions  and 
achieving  behavioural  change.  In  Aberdeen,  the  way 
people  approach  travelling  in  and  around  the  city  has 
been re-defined and road space for collective and active 
travel modes has been recovered. Trieste is developing 
a  sustainable  urban  mobility  plan,  centered  on  new 
opportunities  arising  from  the  recent  incorporation  of 
the «Porto Vecchio» area, a city within the city. 

Real  civic  involvement  and  participation  in  the  field  of 
sustainable mobility has been set up in Constanta, while 
in  Klaipeda,  the  transport  system  has  been  improved 
and  alternative  transport  modes  have  been  promoted. 
All  of  the  measures  implemented  thus  far  are  already 
having  positive  effects  on  the  modal  split  of  the  cities 
involved.

Thanks  to  improved  mobility  and  the  re-development 
of  public  spaces,  CIVITAS  PORTIS  will  also  contribute 
significantly to employment opportunities and economic 
growth  in  the  ports  and  their  surrounding  areas.  The 
living  laboratory  areas  are  expected  to  attract  more 
than 300 new businesses and at least 3,300 new jobs.

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Elba (Italy) 

Rethymno (Greece)

The implementation of the Elba shared mobility agency 
addresses the transport needs of residents and tourists, 
coordinating  different  shared  mobility  services  and 
integrating  with  the  conventional  public  transport 
services. Moreover, a combined offer of “accommodation 
+ mobility services” is now defined as an option available 
for Elba tourists. 

The first dockless e-bike sharing system was launched 
with  300  e-bikes  available  in  the  city  to  enhance 
sustainable  mobility.  The  first  municipal  e-vehicle  and 
the first electric mini-bus were introduced in Greece, as 
well  as  the  first  3  public  EV-chargers  in  Crete.  Free  of 
charge, they are promoting electromobility, and leading 
the way for other Greek cities.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)

The Bus Rapid Transit implementation is the backbone 
of a new commercial strategy to attract more tourists 
and citizens to public transport. A new 1-day and 3-day 
unlimited  travel  card  for  tourists  was  introduced  with 
hoteliers’ cooperation (besides the usual selling points, 
these passes can also be purchased at 8 collaborating 
hotels).The  expansion  of  the  city  bike  sharing  system  
has led to a growing number of users (after one year of 
operation, over 24,000 users, 27% of them are foreign 
tourists).

CIVITAS 
DESTINATIONS

D E S T I N A T I O N S

Innovative and holistic mobility solutions for (island) 
touristic destinations

HORARIOS DO FUNCHAL-TRANSPORTES PUBLICOS SA

31/08/2020

€17,874,948

https://civitas.eu/destinations

01/09/2016

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CIVITAS  DESTINATIONS  is  a  four-year  CIVITAS  Innovative  Actions 
project.  Its  main  aim  is  the  integration  of  sustainable  tourism  and 
mobility  strategies  to  respond  to  travellers’  and  residents’  needs, 
provide  high  quality  and  sustainable  environments,  and  support 
economic  development.  In  total,  a  series  of  80  innovative  measures 
and  solutions  are  being  tested  in  six  European  insular  regions  that 
experience a significant influx of tourists, resulting in great pressure on 
the transport systems of their islands. 

Madeira (Portugal)

The  Action  Plan  for  Sustainable  Mobility  was  approved,  with  the 
cooperation of local municipalities and stakeholders from the tourism 
and  transport  sectors.  Systems  to  improve  the  mobility  planning  are 
being tested. New commercial campaigns were developed to increase 
the use of public transport, by both tourists and residents. 

Valletta (Malta) 

Malta’s  Local  Councils  worked  together  in  the  SUMP 
development,  with  a  competition  to  propose  measures 
for more sustainable mobility. A Green Mobility Award is 
being tested to encourage travel operators to implement 
sustainable  mobility  measures  with 
their  guests, 
employees and the general public. E-bike and car sharing 
are being promoted. 

Limassol (Cyprus) 

The cycling and walking networks were expanded, bicycle 
parking  facilities  added,  routes  created  or  adapted,  and 
map panels and signage installed. A new law to regulate 
the  safety  of  cycling  was  approved  and  enforced  by 
Parliament.  Sheltered  EV  (electric  vehicle)  charging 
stations have been installed in order to promote electric 
car sharing connecting Limassol-airports-ports. 

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© CIVITAS DESTINATIONS

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Topic: Smart Cities and Communities Living Labs

Topic: Smart Cities and Communities Living Labs

IRIS

© IRIS

REMOURBAN

Integrated  and  replicable  solutions  for  co-creation  in 
sustainable cities

Regeneration  model  for  accelerating  the  smart  URBAN 
transformation

IRIS  aims  to  integrate  and  demonstrate  smart 
solutions in urban environments in order to promote 
sustainability and co-creation in European cities. The 
project  supports  the  Lighthouse  cities  of  Utrecht 
(Netherlands),  Göteborg  (Sweden)  and  Nice  Côte 
d’Azur  (France)  and  their  Follower  cities  Vaasa 
(Finland),  Alexandroupolis  (Greece),  Santa  Cruz  de 
Tenerife  (Spain),  and  Focsani  (Romania)  to  address 
their  urgent  need  to  deliver  energy  and  mobility 
services that are cheaper, better accessible, reliable, 
and  contribute  to  a  better  and  more  sustainable 
quality of urban life. 

The  integrated  solutions  are  a  successful  blend  of 
social innovation, engineering and ICT excellence which 
connect the interests of many different stakeholders 
in  innovative  business  models.  This  allows  for 
upscale and replication to develop sustainable cities 
across Europe and world-wide. For this purpose IRIS 
is  organised  around  5  key  challenges,  referred  as 
Transition  Tracks,  focusing  on  (i)  Energy  Positive 
Districts,  (ii)  Smart  Energy  Management,  (iii)  Smart 
e-Mobility,  (iv)  a  digital  integrated  City  Innovation 
Platform and (v) Citizen engagement and co-creation. 

The  project’s  goal  is  to  unlock  the  intelligence  of 
communities  in  order  to  adopt  sustainable  energy, 
mobility  and ICT practices. The expected impacts of 
IRIS  are  an  open  innovation  ecosystem  motivating 

citizens  to  participate  in;  more  effective  urban 
planning and governance of integrated solutions; the 
exploitation of validated innovative business models 
based  on  multi-stakeholder  collaboration;  more 
stable,  secure  and  affordable  energy  and  mobility 
services  for  citizens,  as  well  as  an  improved  air 
quality. 

30/09/2022

01/10/2017

GEMEENTE UTRECHT

€17,996,569

http://irissmartcities.eu/

Coordinator

EU Contribution

Website

REMOURBAN  is  a  5-year  EU-funded  project  aimed 
at  designing  and  validating  a  sustainable  urban 
regeneration  model  in  the  Lighthouse  cities  of 
Nottingham (United Kingdom), Valladolid (Spain) and 
Tepebasi/Eskişehir (Turkey) combining actions in the 
fields of energy, mobility and ICT. 

Sustainable  mobility  is  one  of  the  pillars  of  the 
REMOURBAN project. Actions in the Lighthouse cities 
include  the  adoption  of  clean  energy  for  vehicles, 
the improvement of transport infrastructure and the 
reduction of energy consumption and CO2 emissions.

The  cities  of  Nottingham,  Valladolid  and  Tepebaşi 
increased the number of electric buses on their bus 
network  and  invested  in  enhancing  the  charging 
infrastructure for public and private electric vehicles. 
With  nearly  60  electric  buses,  13  of  them  obtained 
with  the  help  of  REMOURBAN,  Nottingham  is  now 
one  of  the  cities  with  the  largest  electric  bus  fleet 
in  Europe.  The  city  also  started  an  e-vehicle  based 
last  mile  delivery  service.  Valladolid  added  to  its 
public  fleet  5  public  e-buses  and  2  municipal  car-
sharing  e-vehicles,  while  45  new  private  e-vehicles 
have  been  deployed  for  city  services,  taxis  and  last 
mile delivery, saving 74,842 tons of CO2 emissions 
in  2018.  Tepebaşi  included  4  new  e-buses  and 
implemented  a  new  e-bike  infrastructure  that  now 
counts 30 e-bikes and 45 charging stations. 

All  mobility  actions  deployed  in  REMOURBAN  are 
supported  by  ICT,  with  smart  applications  and 
monitoring devices

31/12/2019

01/01/2015

FUNDACION CARTIF

€21,541,949

http://www.remourban.eu/

Coordinator

EU Contribution

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Topic: CEF Urban Nodes

Topic: CEF Urban Nodes

POSTLowCit

Low-noise  and  low-carbon  freight  delivery  for  postal 
operators to ensure last mile connections through optimised 
urban and long distance transport

Mobilité Integrée pour l’Ile-de-France

MI2

The overall objective of this Action is the development 
of  an  efficient  urban  freight  delivery  service  for 
Correos – the Spanish universal postal operator – by 
using alternative energy vehicles. The overall aim is 
to contribute to the reduction of pollutant emissions, 
mainly CO2 and NOx, and the noise associated with 
urban and long-distance traffic.

The  Action  consists  of  a  feasibility  study  to  draw 
an  Action  Plan  towards  2030,  which  includes  the 
development of a distribution control system to ensure 
smooth last mile connections. This is accompanied by 
the deployment of electric vehicles and softer modes 
in urban areas, and vehicles powered by gas for long 
distance transport between urban nodes.

The  Action  will  be  implemented  in  four  main  urban 
nodes  within  the  Mediterranean  corridor  in  Spain, 
namely, Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla and Valencia.

31/12/2019

01/02/2016

SOCIEDAD ESTATAL CORREOS Y TELEGRAFOS 
SA (Spain)

€1,033,272

http://www.correos.es

Coordinator

EU Contribution

Website

Along  the  Paris  TEN-T  urban  node,  the  Action  is  a 
pilot project whose objective is to enforce the policy 
of 
Ile-de-France  Sustainable  Mobility  Authority 
(Syndicat  des  Transports  d’Ile-de-France,  STIF)  to 
support  multimodal  traffic  regulation  and  optimise 
road and public transport traffic management.

Activities  will  rely  on  various  data  sets  (real-time, 
predictive data) using big data tools and contributing 
to the open data process. They will also rely on various 
tools  to  help  users  to  choose  the  most  appropriate 
transport mode. 

These  tools  are  developed  by  private  stakeholders 
and  gathered  by  a  unique  traveller  information 
service,  which  will  enrich  the  Ile  de  France  mobility 
data  portal  in  order  to  build  the  biggest  source  of 
mobility data in the world.

The following services are expected:

•  Predictive  multimodal  navigator 

integrating 
dynamic carpooling and interconnection between 
personal devices and in-car system

•  Urban Mobility advisor tool to help passengers in 

choosing the most convenient mode

•  Mobility  assessment  tools  to  assess  passengers 

and freight mobility public policies

•  Transport network operation services to increase 
the efficiency of public transport management.

30/06/2020

01/07/2017

Cityway (France)

€3,826,717

https://www.cityway.fr

Coordinator

EU Contribution

Website

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