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Mobility Talks 29: Efficient public space management for better mobility systems
The growing urban population in Europe means that competition for public space management in cities is increasing. At the same time, existing mobility solutions and new mobility services put even more pressure on streets, sidewalks, and parking spaces. This is true for passenger mobility but also for the movement of goods in urban areas. The […]
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology launches new hub to strengthen Spain’s innovation ecosystem
Madrid, 27 March 2025– The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union, has launched a new hub in Spain as part of its EIT Community aiming to fostering innovation and enhance regional cooperation. By connecting key stakeholders—including businesses, researchers, and educators—to Europe’s largest innovation ecosystem, the newly established EIT […]
Micromobility usage uptake
Dubnica nad Váhom is a city in central Slovakia with a population of around 25,000. The city’s setting is ideal for promoting higher rates of active mobility. At the time of the pilot, Dubnica nad Váhom will be building its first bicycle infrastructure with a strategic long-term objective to increase the bicycle modal share. One […]
Rethink your ride in Stuttgart
The region of Stuttgart hosts many major events throughout the year. Most visitors come to events by car or on overcrowded public transport (if available). Congestion caused by large events can create safety risks for drivers, pedestrians, and other road users. Large events can also have a significant environmental impact. If people are offered a […]
Mastering mobility at Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress
The Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress (TMWC), co-organised by Fira Barcelona and EIT Urban Mobility, welcomed over 25,000 attendees from 130 countries to Barcelona last week. Now in its fourth year, the congress ran alongside the Smart City Expo World Congress, drawing students, researchers, businesses, city officials and industry experts to discuss this year’s theme: “Move Better.” […]
Working session: New Mobility Guidelines | Generalitat de Catalunya
Noves Directrius nacionals de mobilitat de Catalunya | Inici de la participació (esdeveniment en CATALÀ) Les Directrius nacionals de mobilitat són un instrument de planificació clau per establir el marc general de la mobilitat a Catalunya, d’acord amb els preceptes de la Llei 9/2003. Guiaran l’elaboració dels plans directors, dels plans específics i dels plans […]
Park(ing) Day Strasbourg 2024
Park(ing) day is a global, public, participatory project where people across the world temporarily repurpose curbside parking spaces and convert them into public parks and social spaces to advocate for safer, greener, and more equitable streets for people.
Smart Park & Ride zone only for commuters
Parkunload is a leading smart parking platform to regulate, control and monitor time-limited, restricted and free-of-charge parking zones based on a patented solution with mobile applications and Bluetooth sensors. In this project, Parkunload aims to further design, develop, deploy and operate Smart Park & Ride zones only for commuters taking public transport to work. The […]
Digital Smart Zones
With the Coding the Curbs project, Riga and Riga’s Technical University will develop and implement an innovative feature of the Smart Zone solution. The solution will minimise rogue parking, reduce congestion and optimise space usage by offering real-time insights into the availability of Smart Zone locations. As a result of the project, users will be […]
2024 SME Market Expansion Call winners announced
13 winners have been selected for the SME Market Expansion Call for 2024. The projects address a range of critical challenges including barriers to e-bike rental systems, reducing car dependency in small towns, and correct parking of micromobility vehicles. Commencing on 1 June, these projects will continue until December 2024: 1. The Mobile Urban Nano-Hubs […]
EIT Community AI Challenge: AI innovations take centre stage in the city of Braga
In February, the EIT Community AI Challenge, a competition that seeks innovative AI solutions to real-world problems, announced the winners of its contest. The challenge presented by the city of Braga and the solution presented by Hayden AI to solve it was one of the projects selected to be tested. Last week, Braga took a […]
Park(ing) Day 2024 set to transform urban spaces during European Mobility Week
Park(ing) Day 2024 is ready to revolutionise cityscapes once again. Set for 20 September 2024, the event aligns with European Mobility Week, underlining the collective effort to enhance urban mobility and liveability. Park(ing) Day, an initiative from San Francisco, aims to transform metered parking spaces into temporary public parks, art installations, and social hubs. This […]
Parkunload
Cities worldwide face the challenge of accommodating the growing parking demand of urban freight and delivery vehicles, impacting traffic congestion, urban mobility, air quality and the well-being of citizens and commercial drivers. Parking problems in loading and delivery zones include: increasing demand, parking without a permit, overstaying time limits, difficult and expensive parking enforcement, and […]
Parkedbyme
The innovative Parkedbyme project focuses on refining smart applications and sensors to achieve precise parking for shared bicycles, e-bikes, and e-scooters within designated areas. The primary objective is to elevate parking accuracy to the centimetre level by developing advanced algorithms for positioning and detecting the direction of the BLE-Tag, enabling parking spaces up to 12 […]
FlexCurb – second year
Cities need to make transport more reliable and sustainable. For example, double parking caused by delivery vehicles is one of the main negative impacts of the upturn in last-mile deliveries, generating conflicts with pedestrians, cyclists, public transport and emergency vehicles. Innovative measures are needed to help cities reduce congestion and trips; achieve sustainable mobility goals; […]
Urban freight logistics solution booklet
Cleanergy 4 Micromobility
The rise of shared e-scooters in cities reduces car usage and helps achieve sustainable mobility goals but challenges related to shared public space between pedestrians, cyclists and micromobility users, operating costs, and ensuring clean sources of energy persist. To this end, Cleanergy will develop a dock for e-scooters that can be easily replicated and placed […]
FlexCurb
FlexCurb is a set of application programme interfaces (APIs) that allow creation of a digital inventory of a city’s curb regulations, so they can visualise and analyse the patterns of curb allocation and use, as well as to adapt and communicate curb regulations. The FlexCurb package is composed of two products targeting two types of end users. The […]
S+LOADZ
The S+LOADZ project is building and deploying a cost-effective digital platform provided by Parkunload to control, regulate, and remotely monitor curbside spaces to improve the management of temporary parking of logistics vehicles. Pilots will be initiated in Paris, France, and Ankara, Istanbul, as well as mid-size cities such as Vic in Spain, and Argenteuil within […]
UrbanSmartPark
UrbanSmartPark focuses on the development of automated on-street inner-city parking providing a broad range of possible parking-related services
