Mastering mobility at Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress 2025
For its fifth year, Barcelona became the meeting point for the world’s leading mobility innovators, researchers and policymakers as the Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress (TMWC) returned to Fira Barcelona from 4-6 November. Co-organised by Fira Barcelona and EIT Urban Mobility, the event ran alongside the Smart City Expo World Congress, welcoming over 27,000 attendees from more […]
Mastering mobility with car-free days
Car-free days are deliberately scheduled interruptions of private motor traffic, typically lasting for a full day. During these events, streets or entire districts are cleared of cars and reclaimed for walking, cycling, public transport and community life. The result is an immediate transformation: quieter streets, cleaner air and space for people to enjoy, rather than […]
Integrated, shared and autonomous: The future of public transport and shared mobility in cities
The EIT Urban Mobility North Summit 2025 took place in Stockholm on 16-17 September with over 110 representatives from the public transport and mobility sector in Northern Europe. Taking the stage to welcome everyone, EIT Urban Mobility CEO Marc Rozendal set the tone for the following two days: “Shifting to public transport delivers high impact […]
More than 250 students attend the EIT Urban Mobility Summer Schools across Europe
This summer, EIT Urban Mobility Summer Schools reached a new milestone: eight programmes delivered across Europe. They brought together bachelor’s and master’s students, as well as young professionals, to address some of today’s most pressing urban mobility challenges. Covering car dependency, smart cities, resilience, e-mobility, healthy ageing, and street redesign, the programmes combined challenge-based learning […]
Mastering mobility with urban greening
Around the world, cities have become hotspots for heat, with the urban heat island effect making urban temperatures 10-15°C higher than nearby rural areas during peak summer periods. In the summer of 2025, heatwaves impacted large parts of Europe as early as June, pushing cities beyond their abilities for mitigation. As an estimated 75% of […]
Startups boosting EV charging infrastructure network in Europe
The race to transition to more sustainable mobility is underway across Europe. The EU under the European Green Deal is targeting a 55% reduction in emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050 [1]. A large part of this transition is the push to increase electric mobility. Yet the road to a well-balanced ecosystem of […]
From words to action: Implementing diversity in mobility and transport
The Women in Nordic Intelligent Transport Systems project (WIN-ITS 2) has been successfully closed, following a final workshop on 7 April and a closing webinar on 22 May. Throughout the project, participating ITS organisations from Norway, Iceland, Estonia and Finland organised events to promote women and diversity in their organisations. Additionally, EIT Urban Mobility and […]
Mastering mobility with mobility justice
How people move through their cities, or are prevented from freely moving, may seem like a commonplace infrastructural issue but at the core of the issue lies fairness, power and opportunity. Transportation systems reflect decades of decisions informed by political parties and movements, patterns of exclusion and reinforcement of power structures. Mobility justice asserts that […]
34 startups selected for EIT Urban Mobility’s 2025 Market Readiness Accelerator programmes
The startups for the 2025 Market Readiness Accelerators have been chosen. The objective of these programmes is to equip early-stage mobility startups with the expertise to validate their business models, achieve product-market fit and build a solid foundation for fundraising and scalable growth. EIT Urban Mobility’s accelerators are designed with a variety of startups’ […]
Mastering mobility with non-exhaust emissions
As cities work to achieve their emissions reductions goals and implement changes for more sustainable transport systems, the focus has long been on reducing vehicles’ exhaust emissions. However, a less visible but increasingly significant source of pollution has persisted: non-exhaust emissions (NEE). Non-exhaust emissions are particles that get released into the air from parts of […]
Small engines, big impact: Light electric vehicles powering green mobility
Have you ever considered how light electric vehicles (LEVs) – like e-bikes, e-scooters, and e-cargo bikes – could help power active mobility, healthy cities and local businesses? This question was at the heart of the Nordic conference on light electric vehicles, held on 8 May 2025 in Copenhagen by EIT Urban Mobility and Dansk Erhverv […]
Mastering mobility with child-friendly mobility planning
As cities across Europe grow and populations flock to urban areas, inclusive urban planning becomes a requirement. Public spaces, transport systems, streets and sidewalks must be accessible not just to the able-bodied adult majority, but to the entire community, including our youngest residents. Children, often overlooked in planning decisions, experience cities in unique ways, but […]
Mastering mobility: the untapped potential of urban waterways
Throughout history, cities have been established along rivers, canals and coastlines. Vital to survival, these waterways enabled the movement of people and goods for the ever-growing populations that settled there. From the island of Manhattan to the canals of Venice, and further still, to the port of Shanghai, water-based mobility has played an essential role […]
Closing the leaky pipeline: Supporting women’s careers in the mobility sector
On 26 March 2025, experts gathered to discuss strategies for closing the “leaky pipeline” and enhancing support for women’s careers in the mobility and transport sector. The webinar was part of the second Women in Nordic Intelligent Transport Systems (WIN-ITS 2) project. Why do women drop out of the mobility and transport sector? The “leaky […]
Inclusive urban mobility: bridging gaps in accessibility and safety
On 26 February 2025, industry experts gathered to discuss how urban mobility solutions and design choices can help improve accessibility and inclusion. The discussion was part of the WIN-ITS 2: How can urban mobility solutions and design choices help improve accessibility and inclusion? webinar, which was co-organised by Trivector Traffic and EIT Urban Mobility. Accessibility […]
Mastering mobility with inclusiveness by design
Europe’s population is diverse, yet its mobility infrastructure often fails to reflect this reality. Mobility is a fundamental part of daily life – allowing access to work, school, health and governmental services, as well as leisure activities and social connections – and a lack of access can have profound consequences on individual physical, social and […]
How can futures thinking and play help cities shape the future of urban mobility?
The future is not just something that happens to us; it’s something we can actively shape, not least through the power of imagination. On 30 January 2025, EIT Urban Mobility, Stockholm Environmental Institute and our partner Tartu University co-organised a playful workshop at Tartu University in Estonia on imagining desirable future scenarios for urban mobility […]
Mastering mobility: public space and public health
Research conducted by UN-Habitat has found that ‘well-functioning cities have around 50% of their surface area dedicated to public space.’ Public space offers opportunities for people who live, work, and play in the city to connect with one another, nature and the built environment. Public space design has been found to significantly influence the mental, […]
Gender mainstreaming for inclusive mobility
Mobility and transport are not gender-neutral. The persistent inequalities in both the labour market and household responsibilities also impact gender differences in mobility, particularly in travel patterns. According to Point&’s Report Data & Diversity in mobility, women have more complex and multimodal trip patterns, more safety concerns during travelling and use more public transport than […]
RIS Education Open Call: 15 awarded projects set to start in 2025
We are proud to announce that 15 new RIS Education projects were selected as a result of RIS Education call launched in May 2024. The call received 22 project proposals from applicants from more than 15 countries, most of them coming from the RIS region. The thematic focus of the projects varies from winter and […]
Mastering mobility with the 15-minute city
Throughout history, urban designers and architects have theorised about the ideal structure of cities to meet the unique needs of residents. From Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City, which envisioned compact suburban towns with quick access to both services and natural spaces; to Harris and Ullman’s Polycentric City, focused on more organic growth with nodal points around […]
Mastering mobility: autonomous vehicles and EU-alignment
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are not just a technological evolution but rather have the capacity to transform urban mobility. AVs’ potential to reduce traffic congestion, emissions and traffic fatalities while enhancing accessibility, represents an opportunity for Europe. Discussions at the Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress session entitled Autonomous Technologies for Improved Mobility held in Barcelona in November, centred […]
Latvia is driving urban mobility innovations: Trends and challenges
From electric cargo scooters, autonomous vehicles and data-driven public transport improvements to bridging the gap between research and practice; Latvia is teeming with ambitious urban mobility innovators and initiatives that aim to accelerate the Baltic country’s green and digital transition. In November, EIT Urban Mobility met with local partners and collaborators from the public sector, […]
EIT Urban Mobility unveils its vision for Europe: The Manifesto for competitive and sustainable urban mobility
Brussels, 25 November 2024 — EIT Urban Mobility, a European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) initiative, a body of the EU has launched its Manifesto, a strategic document aimed at shaping urban mobility policies as the European Union mandate for 2024-2029 fully kicks-off. Rooted in innovation and collaboration, the Manifesto presents a bold vision […]
