ELABORATOR – The European Living Lab on designing sustainable urban mobility towards climate neutral cities
Client: European Comission
Partners: Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (EL Coordinator), the Polis – Promotion of Operational Links with INTEGBE (Partner), the European Institute for Road Assessment (Partner), the International Road Assessment Programme (UK Partner), the University of Bristol (UK Partner), Multicriter-MCRIT AIE (ES Partner), the Institut d’Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya (ES Partner), Comune di Milano (IT Partner), Stefano Boeri Architetti Srl (IT Partner), Things Srl (IT Partner), Agenzia Mobilità Ambiente e Territorio Srl (IT Partner), Kobenhavns Kommune (DK Partner), Kobenhavns Universitet (DK Partner), Analyse & Tal f.m.b.a. (DK Partner), Forum Virium Helsinki Oy(FI Partner), Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy (FI Partner), Société d’Economie Mixte ISSY – MEDIA (SEM ISSY MEDFRA (FR Partner), COLAS (FR Partner), IFP Energies Nouvelles (FR Partner), Urban Radar (FR Partner), Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza (ES Partner), Fundacion Circe Centro de Investigacion de Recures (Parner), JOC Rental S.L. (ES Partner), Anaptyxiaki Etaireia Dimou Trikkai (EL Partner), URBANA (EL Partner), Lunds Kommun (SE Partner), Linköpings Universitet (SE Partner), Sensative AB (SE Partner), Statutarni Mesto Liberec (CZ Partner), Ceske Vysoké Uceni Technicke v Praze (CZ Partner), Mestna Občina Velenje (SI Partner), AV Living Lab, D.O.O. (SI Partner), Internet Institute, Communications Solutions Andsi (SI Partner), Grad Split (HR Partenr), Sveučilište u Zagrebu Fakultet prometnih znanos (HR Partner), City Administration of the City of Krusevac (RS Partner), Municipality of Ioannina (EL Partner) and platomo GmbH (DE Partner).
ELABORATOR is a European urban mobility project that seeks to create safe, inclusive and sustainable cities. Through a holistic approach, the project plans to introduce innovative and smart enforcement tools, shared services and integration of active and green modes of transportation, all of which are dedicated to creating greater access for citizens who are vulnerable to exclusion. Six Lighthouse cities (Milan, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Zaragoza and Trikala) and six Follower cities (Lund, Liberec, Velejne, Ioannina, Split and Krusevac) are part of the project, and, with the help of dedicated toolkits, users’ and stakeholders’ opinions, guidelines and policies developed, and future roadmaps, the project will establish evidence-based Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) that will benefit all city-dwellers.
REFEREE builds on E3ME, a macro-econometric model designed to address national and global economic and economy-environment policy challenges
Client: European Comission
Partners:
PROJECT COORDINATOR. ISINNOVA is an Italian leading research and consultancy firm in the EU supporting policy makers in the formulation, monitoring and evaluation of energy, transport and environmental policies.
TOOL DEVELOPMENT. MCRIT is a Spanish firm specialized in the development of advanced decision support systems and planning methods, including information, forecasting and policy assessment models.
ENERGY-ECONOMY MODELING. Cambridge Econometrics is a UK consultancy and research firm. It has extensive experience in the quantification of the benefits of energy efficiency and in the application of such techniques to policy assessments.
USER INVOLVEMENT AND AWARENESS RAISING. The Center for the Study of Democracy is a European public policy think tank based in Bulgaria, specialized on energy governance processes and socio-economic theory.
The Jacques Delors Institute is a European think tank based in France that counts on a wide and high-level network of policy representatives and experts throughout Europe.
B.A.U.M. Consult GmbH is a German consulting and knowledge management company that counts on a vast network of firms and organizations in Germany and abroad.
The European Environmental Bureau is an umbrella organisation that brings together 160 civil society organisations from more than 35 European countries.
REFEREE builds on E3ME, a macro-econometric model designed to address national and global economic and economy-environment policy challenges. Newly built technology diffusion models will assess the deployment of technologies in response to policy interventions in four sectors: road transport, housing, power and manufacturing industries (with process heating).
Evaluating energy efficiency impacts has become more urgent for municipalities across Europe. There are a lot of targets to comply with and many actions must be taken in a short decision-making time and aiming for short and medium-term outputs. The REFEREE project has built two tools that were tested in different case studies: the National tool and the Local tool. This article is focused on the second one and how understanding real user needs through the case studies allowed developing a more practical and user-friendly tool, allowing tailoring the human capital and/or timing constraints of municipalities. The tool shows energy and non-energy impacts to estimate all the consequences driven by an energy policy, that are not only related to energy consumption or emissions, but also socioeconomical aspects. During the developing process we conducted SECAP plans for different municipalities giving a practical usability to the tool, adding more value to the REFEREE project.
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REBALANCE: New Mobility Cultures & Policies
REBALANCE brings together different voices, visionary thinkers from humanistic fields, mobility experts, stakeholders and European policy decision-makers, to create a fruitful knowledge-sharing hub to discuss future mobility policies.
As a cultural and political initiative, the REBALANCE overall aim is to conduct an open deliberative forward-looking exercise towards a transformative transport policy strategy in favour of a paradigm shift in mobility, pushing for the more effective adoption of cultural and social values not yet fully considered, better aligned with SDGs and mounting concerns about climate change. The critical review of the present also in the light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic which drastically affected our lifestyles, the vision over the future and the roadmap to achieve it, will be embedded in a Manifesto with the aim to stimulate European policymakers to adopt concrete legal and political measures while moving the wider European communities towards a radical change.
MIND-SETS – Mobility Innovations for a New Dawn in Sustainable (European) Transport Systems, 2017
Client: European Commission, Horizon 2020 (H2020)
Partners: ISINNOVA – lead partner, VECTOS, VITO, EIP, TECHNION, University of Groningen, Pocket Marketing
The project provides a new approach to understanding mobility as part of the overall changing lifestyles of different population groups across Europe. A multi-disciplinary coordination of intelligence provides a strong platform for the reinterpretation of our understanding of the ‘mobility mind-sets’ of Europeans; based on engagement with other leading experts in the field in Europe. The approach will be validated against key behavioural issues facing mobility decision-makers: increasing automation, door to door seamless smart mobility, sustainable and energy efficient fuels and mobility and social inclusion.
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