InnovaCity 4.0 – Academy
Currently running for its fourth year in a row, InnovaCity Hack is a three-day tech challenge inviting participants to work in cross-sector teams to solve specific urban mobility challenges identified by municipal governments. This year the event will be held from 30 June to 2 July in Barcelona, Budapest, Munich and Paris. The teams will […]
Incentives to motivate active mobility
Walking, cycling and other forms of active mobility can improve citizens’ physical fitness and wellbeing. Yet it is difficult to change the habits of sedentary citizens who continue to rely heavily on motorised modes of transport. This project is creating a training program to encourage people to adopt active forms of mobility by evaluating best […]
Healthy Liveable Cities
RMIT Europe and FutureLearn is delivering an online training program, ExpertTrack, where participants learn about measuring health impacts of urban mobility interventions and adapt plans to achieve better air quality. The program is also creating a community of professionals from the urban mobility and sustainable urban development fields. The ExpertTrack training programme will attract both […]
CrossInnohack
Two hackathons are being organised in Madrid, Spain, and Lisbon, Portugal, to find solutions to two common city challenges, and develop them to become fully-fledged pilot projects. The first challenge will ask participants to design a solution that encourages active mobility, especially cycling, and ensure residents feel safe and secure to ride around the city. […]
CityFlows – second year
The quality of life in European metropolitan areas is under pressure. A steady increase of the population in combination with the rapid expansion of city tourism frequently causes crowd-related issues. In recent years, universities, research institutes and municipalities have developed techniques to A) monitor crowd movements by means of the state-of-the-art crowd sensing systems, and […]
INNOMOTION
Innomotion aims to create an Urban Mobility Scale-up Program in Istanbul and will provide support for innovative mobility solutions from all the cities of Turkey. By integrating the program with other EIT Urban Mobility accelerator programs, business creation services and Urban Mobility Living Lab in Istanbul, Innomotion will provide scaling up services for startups. The consortium will run a competion program […]
MeHUB
MeHUB helps to organise public space within the urban environment as well as lower operational costs for service providers and create a better MaaS(Mobility as a Service) experience for users with a connected and universal micro-mobility charging infrastructure. The project
SUMBooST2
SUMBooST2 develops universally applicable data science methodology which extracts key urban mobility parameters and origin/destination matrix from the anonymised big data set gathered from telecom operator. The algorithms which separate relevant mobility data from the overall dataset are the unique part of the toolbox. The algorithms to identify passenger car trips are developed in 2020 […]
Urban MoVators
Urban MoVators is a dedicated RIS entrepreneurship program, that will scale the process of mobilizing the innovation and entrepreneurial potential of the urban mobility eco-system in Bulgaria through a specialized service and access provision to EIT Urban Mobility expertise, programs and opportunities. The Programme will source and nourish the most promising start-ups able to bring transformative […]
urbanDRONEscheduler
The project urbanDRONEscheduler aims to deliver a real-time digital platform for drone operation in urban areas based on an approved predefined flight route strategy. The platform consists of a Drone Flight Control Centre (DFCC) supervised by the city authorities on the server-side and an app/https-based application on the client side. Through the client app, a drone user […]
Street Experiments Tool
SET (Street Experiment Tool) develops a platform for knowledge, information and inspiration for urban street experiments as cities across the globe witness an increased need for innovative uses of public spaces. The SET guidelines kit is a tool that supports cities in the transformation process.
InnovaCity
InnovaCity is a 2-day Design-Thinking Workshops, where participants will be working in cross-sector teams to tackle prevailing challenges, prototyping viable solutions and finally pitching their results in front of a panel of experts. The winning teams will receive coaching sessions and a pitch-training to be able to participate in a final event, where they pitch their […]
Women in Urban Mobility
Women in Urban Mobility aims to raise awareness of female perspectives and gender equality in the urban mobility sector. The project strives to empower women to take entrepreneurial action; encourage companies, cities, and governments to foster gender equality; and enrich the innovation process in urban mobility with female perspectives to increase social inclusion and shape the future of urban mobility for everyone. […]
WalCycData
The WalkCycData project addresses the need to make cities increasingly safe for pedestrians and cyclists. According to the European Transport Safety Council, while the statistics for fatal accidents in vehicles decreased by 24%, those of pedestrian accidents have only decreased by 19% and the deaths of people on bicycles remain the same. Increasing the uptake of green and […]
MobilitEU
The Urban Mobility Operating System (UMOS) will be as a universal open service platform for optimised, customised and seamless mobility for travellers. The aim is to integrate various multi-modal mobility and related services into a one-stop platform. However, UMOS is not only a Mobility as a Service (MaaS) solution; it is beyond MaaS. It envisions an ultimate experience […]
Urban Mobility Changemaker
Driving change and innovation in the field of urban mobility takes time. The stakeholder ecosystem is complex and decision making in the public realm often slow. A multitude of innovative solutions, technologies, and tools to work towards sustainable urban mobility already exist, but implementation is taking place at a slow pace. The Urban Mobility Changemaker workshops offer valuable insights […]
SmartHubs
SmartHubs is an EIT Urban Mobility Project working on increasing the implementation and use of shared mobility hubs in metropolitan areas. Worldwide the pressure on urban areas and climate is increasing. Cities need to implement new and effective mobility solutions, such as shared mobility, to deal with this pressure. The adoption rate of shared mobility is already […]
MultiDEPART
Demand Responsive Transit (DRT) services are gathering momentum in Europe, especially in medium and small size cities and low-density suburbs surrounding large metropolitan areas. Also known as bus on demand or microtransit, DRT allows the provision of public transport services through flexible routes and schedules, based on actual demand collected from users through digital or other communication […]
Citizen Bench
The public bench represents a practical and emotional link between the city and its citizens. It is a key element for the success of active mobility, public modes of transport and the well-being of citizens. With a user-centric approach, the Citizen Bench project helps cities to understand better the different needs of citizens, their restrictions and their expectations in terms of seating in the […]
AI-TraWell – second year
AI-powered, proactive TRAvel assistant to self-monitor user’s experience & craft personalised travel solutions for promoting WELLbeing. AI-TraWell is an artificial-intelligence powered, proactive chatbot for smartphone devices to recommend personalised travel alternatives that fit travellers’ needs and preferences and promote long-term health and wellbeing for all citizens living or moving within our cities. It combines data about users’ needs, preferences and physical and mental wellbeing with real-time and predictive information about all modes of […]
Hubs for Last Mile Delivery Solutions
The HALLO project is creating shared urban consolidation and distribution centres (UCDCs) through a series of pilots in Barcelona and Stockholm. In Barcelona, the centres are being implemented in municipalities bordering the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB). In Stockholm, the pilots are demonstrating complementary activities including implementing fossil-fuel free delivery logistics in the district of Södermalm; testing innovative delivery solutions across Stockholm; planning and testing a micro-terminal for logistics and other […]
FDMM – Code the streets – Future Digital Mobility Management
Code the Streets is an EIT Urban Mobility Project bringing together different partners from Amsterdam, Helsinki and Budapest to support metropolitan areas in managing urban mobility. As metropolitan areas continue to grow, so do traffic related issues such as congestion and pollution. Globally cities are faced with the challenge of finding better ways to manage urban mobility […]
eUltimate
Battery electric buses are being launched in many cities, with multiple charging technologies and operational schemes available. Along the lifetime of a vehicle, different charging schemes have specific impact on the operating costs, allocation of public space and emissions. In general, the electrification of existing bus routes usually implies an increment in the number of vehicles and operating costs in comparison to conventional […]
Citython
Citython is an evolution of the concept of hackathon and datathon. The events are designed to address the lack of practical solutions to current city urban mobility challenges by developing new targeted applications, technological tools, prototypes and business concepts in a short time frame. In cities across Europe, multidisciplinary teams of students and professionals from different backgrounds (including architecture, […]
