Digital Bus
Whilst urban centres enjoy an effective and seamless multimodal public transport system, for many peri-urban and rural areas public transport bus services remain the key form of transport providing mobility and connection to essential services such as education, employment, healthcare, fresh food and leisure – and transport hubs. In such areas with low population density, […]
IMAGINEXT
While urbanisation and populations in urban areas increase, decarbonising cities becomes a harder challenge. In this context, as an unprecedented amount of urban traffic pollutants are generated in cities, IMAGINEXT validates a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that utilises artificial intelligence (AI) to learn how specific mobility strategies and sustainable transport measures impact on […]
EV Charging From Lampposts
EV Charging From Lampposts will deploy and test electric-vehicle (EV) charging stations developed by the start-up SimpleCharge. These charging stations can be easily integrated into the infrastructure of street lampposts. The charging solution will be tested in several cities in Europe, focusing on providing electric vehicle charging solutions in residential areas where there are few […]
NEDAM
E-bikes over emerged as a comprehensive transport option to replace more motorised forms of transport because they are speedier and easier to ride than conventional bikes. However, it is not always the most comfortable or convenient option; for instance, standard e-bikes may not be the most suitable option for employee’s movement during working hours when […]
REACTIVITY
Globally, cities are grappling with growing challenges tied to air and noise pollution, as well as traffic congestion and accidents. Concurrently, a rising number of citizens are suffering from chronic illnessesassociated with unhealthy lifestyles. In this context, local authorities need to support the uptake of intermodal active mobility and need technological tools to simplify the […]
IMPACTS
Public transport is a crucial aspect of urban mobility, allowing people to commute, socialise, and explore their cities safely and cost-effectively. However, overcrowding, limited digitalisation, outdated reporting mechanisms and decreased perceived safety due to the pandemic, have discouraged its use. This has resulted in decreased use of public transport and missed opportunities for multimodal mobility, […]
sCOOL2walk
sCOOL2walk aims to get families walking to school. The project matches people together to share their walk to and from school. The benefits are many. Traffic congestion and pollution around schools is reduced and fewer vehicles also means safer streets. Families become more active and children gain a greater feeling of independence and awareness of […]
TACTIC
TACTIC aims to design, deploy, and evaluate a sustainable and efficient delivery system for local commerce based on a multi-stakeholder collaborative approach. Over the course of the project, three commercialization products were developed and tested in real-world environments using two living labs, located in Barcelona and Métropole du Grand Paris. This enabled the TACTIC consortium […]
Coding the Curbs
The project will co-create with carriers, cities and citizens, offering clear incentives and engagement. The project will pilot an innovative scalable platform for bookable loading zones. Pricing, incentives and enforcement will directly result in a better use of loading zones, more efficient logistics, including a 20% reduction in kilometres driven and an incentive for clean […]
FOLLOW
Walkable cities are safe, healthy, and friendly. Although urban planning has a key role in shaping citizens’ mobility patterns and behaviour, some tools can aid with the challenge of encouraging people to walk. FOLLOW aims to test a route planner that encourages walking by minimising the negative effects that a lack of safety and accessibility […]
Open Innovation Call for Proposals
At EIT Urban Mobility, our mission is to accelerate change towards a sustainable mobility model for liveable urban spaces. In the current context of climate emergency, our objective is to support our community of innovators to develop solutions that help mitigate and adapt to climate change and, at the same time, are able to improve […]
Smart Cities Marketplace Online Matchmaking Event: Accelerate your project idea
Cities are facing the new energy market reality and remain crucial to speed up the deployment of renewable energies and improve energy efficiency. However, they often lack the right technical and financial capacity to take advantage of all opportunities available. The Smart Cities Marketplace (SCM) provides essential assistance and is an ideal platform to accelerate […]
Info session: #ChallengeMyCity Braga
Join us to the Info Session for the #ChallengeMyCity Braga call for Proposals! You will have an in-depth analysis of the project’s objectives, award criteria, challenges and expected results. The City of Braga will be introducing the urban challenges this project will tackle. During the session, you will also learn about the call calendar, the […]
Agile Innovation RAPTOR Call for the BP2023-2025
Within EIT Urban Mobility, cities are our driving force and enabler of faster adoption of innovation. To harness the wider city innovation capacity and ensure innovation closer to citizens, we developed a Rapid Application for Transport (RAPTOR) Pilot in 2020. This pilot helped 4 cities/towns identify niche mobility issues in specific locations with defined parameters […]
Targeted project call
This call falls under the thematic area innovation’s targeted projects programme that addresses gaps in the innovation portfolio, business plan, and/ or strategic agenda, and covers issues not or inadequately covered by the main annual innovation call. The annual open calls in 2022 and 2023 failed to provide a) any viable waterborne mobility projects evaluated […]
First Innovation Small Call for the BP2023-2025
The Innovation Small Calls is a new pilot mechanism for EIT Urban Mobility in 2023. Around 600K€ has been allocated to the Small Call’s mechanism. Given the small calls process is a pilot mechanism, awardees will be closely monitored through the implementation process until the successfully closure of their project by 31 December 2023. Additionally, […]
UPPER: EIT Urban Mobility working to unleash the potential of public transport in ten European cities
EIT Urban Mobility is proud to contribute to the implementation of UPPER, a new EU- funded project working to strengthen the role of public transport as the backbone of mobility in cities. UPPER (Unleashing the Potential of Public transport in EuRope) is a 48-month project funded under the Horizon Europe Programme of the European Commission. […]
SEVES
The development of transport electrification means the unsustainable production of expensive batteries including the high consumption of raw materials and, at the end of the life of battery electric vehicles (BEV), their energy-intensive recycling. Sustainable electrified urban transport requires the provision of peak charging performance for shorter charging times. Extending battery life is offered as […]
URBANE: EIT Urban Mobility working to decarbonise last mile deliveries in cities
EIT Urban Mobility is excited to announce that the URBANE project has officially kicked-off and EIT Urban Mobility is involved in its implementation. URBANE (Upscaling Innovative Green Urban Logistics Solutions Through Multi-Actor Collaboration and Physical Internet (PI) – Inspired Last Mile Deliveries) is a 42-month project co-funded by the Horizon Europe Programme with a budget […]
#ChallengeMyCity launches four new pilots in Milan and Toulouse
EIT Urban Mobility’s #ChallengeMyCity programme has launched four new pilots in the cities of Milan and Toulouse. These pilots will enable the cities to test innovative mobility solutions to the challenges that they face, that can later be widely rolled out. In Toulouse, the city has collaborated with EIT Urban Mobility to deploy two innovative […]
±15-Minute City: Human-Centred Planning in Action
The concept of 15mn city developed by Carlos Moreno has been increasingly popular over the past years. This study written by the Technical University of Munich explores the different dimensions of the 15mn city and looks at practical solutions to make cities and neighbourhoods more accessible and inclusive. One of the study’s outputs consists of […]
Expectations and Success Factors for Urban Air Mobility in Europe
This report on Urban Air Mobility (UAM) provides insights on what future applications for UAM in Europe could look like. Contributions from more than 60 experts from the public and private sectors were collected via a questionnaire and during an in-person workshop with EIT Urban Mobility partners. Main topics addressed include the likely use cases […]
S+LOADZ: Transforming Urban Logistics in France
Developed under the umbrella of the 2021 Innovation call of EIT Urban Mobility, S+LOADZ project pretends to accelerate the shift to sustainable and smart city logistics. A new digital solution is being developed to manage loading and delivery zones. The French cities of Paris and Argenteuil are two of the four cities that test this […]
Demand Responsive Transport: Recommendations for Successful Deployment
Our report on Demand Responsive Transport (DRT), launched in October 2022 with the support of Nemi, offers a practitioner-oriented overview of the potential and use cases DRT offers to improve social inclusion and sustainability of public transport systems in low-demand contexts. Exploring various aspects such as costs and benefits, user uptake, as well as operations […]