Amsterdam’s pilot focused on Buitenveldert, a residential neighborhood in the south of Amsterdam. In 2014 the local bus line 62 changed its route, increasing the distance for many people from their houses to the bus stops. This affected residents, especially elderly (65+) inhabitants, of which this area contains the highest percentage in the city. The elderly are also very vulnerable to loneliness and isolation and the new situation could lead to an increase of these issues. In general, there is the need to reduce the dependency on private transportation in favor of more sustainable solutions. The pilot will be coordinated by Waag Society [WAAG] and facilitated by the City of Amsterdam [AMST], both project partners.

The Barcelona pilot took place in the Sant Andreu neighborhood. Its vibrant community boost a proud industrial tradition and a dynamic commercial fabric and is fast becoming a hub of innovative design, crafts and artistic activities. Located in the north area of Barcelona’s bustling city center its dual-flow community dynamics make it an excellent pilot location for MUV. A large portion of the neighborhood’s 150.000 inhabitants commute daily to the inner districts, but also Sant Andreu’s emerging attraction is increasingly compelling other district’s dwellers to set up shops and work there, thus bringing up demand for transportation. The pilot was coordinated by Fundació i2CAT [I2CAT] and facilitated by the City’s Institut Municipal de Informàtica [IMI], both project partners.

In Fundão the pilot was run in the Old Town, with around 9.000 inhabitants. Fundão is part of the Cova Beira region, a large and mountainous area where the rural ecosystems play an important role in the economy. This Municipality is using a wide open and social innovation strategy to coordinate a process of social and economic transformation aiming to retain population and create new jobs, strengthen social cohesion, empower urban regeneration and rural economy revitalization. Transportation management issues and mobility between Fundão and other urban centers of the region and abroad is a crucial aspect for the development of the innovation and investment attraction strategy of the Municipality. The pilot was coordinated by Bag Innovation [BAG] and facilitated by Municipio do Fundão [MFU], both project partners

In Ghent the pilot was implemented in the neighborhood of Muide/Meulestede, in the harbor of Ghent, just outside the city centre. The area is almost completely surrounded by water and accessible through two bridges and one four-lane road. Kids cycle to school in between heavy traffic; there’s no cycling lane in the busiest street of the neighborhood. Public transport is limited to one bus line and one tram line. The pilot was coordinated by LUCA School of Arts [LUCA] and facilitated by the City of Ghent [GHENT], both project partners.

Helsinki’s pilot focused on new smart district Jätkäsaari is traffic-wise a bottleneck, a small island which additionally to 20.000+ future inhabitants and businesses also encompasses the main part of Helsinki’s passenger harbor, with very limited connections to mainland. Much of Helsinki’s effort on developing new smart mobility solutions is focused on this hotspot. Additionally Helsinki, being the birthplace and leading developer for the renowned Mobility as a Service (MaaS) concept, is able to link MUV to the customer base of world’s first MaaS operators. The pilot was coordinated by Forum Virium Helsinki [FVH] which is formally part of the City of Helsinki Group.

Palermo’s pilot involved the neighborhood of the historic center and its population. This area, called Centro Storico, is almost 2,5 square kilometers wide, it hosts about 21.000 inhabitants and also the majority of the historic heritage and the touristic sites of the city. Here, more than in other parts of the city, traffic jams affect urban livability. Just recently, the Palermo Municipality decided to invest in mobility infrastructures and policies on this neighborhood: new limited traffic zones, a new bike sharing system, improvement of the car sharing service and public transports with the new tramway lanes, thus changing permanently the way citizens will experience the Centro Storico. The pilot was coordinated by PUSH [PUSH] and facilitated by Comune di Palermo [CPA], both project partners.

The focus proposed, through the MUV Open Call, by the Link Campus University was Pigneto neighborhood, part of the Municipality V of Rome. It was formed from 1870 by the union of local residential settlements and it covers a triangular area among Porta Maggiore, Largo Preneste and Piazza della Marranella. During the II World War it has been active in the fight against fascism and nowadays it preserves a vocation towards civic participation, with active citizen groups, also involved in participatory processes laboratories. A good number of creative and cultural activities (co-working spaces, street artists, movie sets, music events) and good mobility assets (with a good predisposition towards sustainable means of transportation and green areas) are present.

MUV, in Munich and peri-urban area, collaborated with MUV to analyse the effectiveness of gamification concept in changing people’s mobility behaviour. MUV region comprises of both, very densely built up urban areas as well as very sparsely populated rural areas. The city of Munich and its surrounding counties have seen a massive growth in population in the last decades. This is due to the fact that MUV region offers a high quality of life and is home to a large number of high-tech industries, educational and research institutions as well as tourist destinations. Due to this population explosion and heavy dependency on cars, the MUV region has to deal with severe traffic problems and often exceeds its pollution limits.

Cagliari is a city in southern Sardinia (Italy), relevant for industrial, trade and tourism issues. Cagliari municipality is about 85,3 km 2 wide and is inhabited by approximately 150.000 people. The density \is equal to an average of 1757,13 inhabitants/ km 2 . The involved neighbourhood incorporates the 4 greatest University Centres: engineering, scientific, law and languages departments. The neighbourhood is about 1,18 km 2 wide and is inhabited by approximately 7146 people, whose density is equal to 6023,74 inhabitants/ km 2 . The environment is very dynamic in terms of social and financial features, thanks to the presence of several local shops and workplaces. Moreover, the neighbourhood is well connected to the public transport with several city bus lines.

Constructed in late 60s, Nsa Sra de Fátima Ave., Teresina (Brasil) is full of bars and restaurants and is the main connection between several schools and universities, full of young people, and the CBD, only 7km away. When coupled its clear historic significance for the city’s eastern development; outstanding connectivity between centrum and East zone; economic and educational activities taking place in the area; the profile of its users; and recent walkability improvement projects throughout the street, it sums 5 good reasons for the area hosts MUV. We envision a cheerful place that celebrates diversity and brings people together, connecting and inspiring them by facilitating sustainable mobility.

The city of Milan is about 181,67 km2 wide and is inhabited by 1.372.810 people, whose density is equal to an average of 7.556,61 inhabitants/km2. The involved neighborhoods are two: Piazza Leonardo da Vinci and the Bovisa neighborhood. Both areas are characterized by the presence of Politecnico di Milano University and see a very young and dynamic environment, moreover, the academic and the administrative staff travels from one point to the other in order to accomplish its daily tasks. Piazza Leonardo da Vinci is inhabited by 36.000 people, is around 2 km2 wide and the density is around 15.000 inhabitants/km2. Bovisa is inhabited by around 13.000 people, is around 1,9 km2 wide and the density is around 6.800 inhabitants/km2.

The city of Arrecife is the capital of the island of Lanzarote, Canary Islands. The neighbourhood of Argana Alta has been chosen for MUV’s experimentation. It is the youngest neighborhood in the city of Arrecife, born around the ‘90s and where many lower-middle-class families built their homes without permission from the Arrecife City Council. Argana Alta is a neighborhood with more youth, an engine of change and innovation, and with worse rates of employment, salary, functional literacy and infrastructure. The Arrecife City Council has to date paid little attention to the Argana Alta neighborhood, so it has no point of reference and its important assets are its own people who live from local commerce. The reason why it is considered a good scenario for MUV is because it is the most populated neighborhood in Arrecife with 9,551 inhabitants, where 50 nationalities live together and with a high risk of exclusion. It is thus perfect as a laboratory for mobility and migration with more 2,400 young people from 50 countries. We have the quality of having pleasant spring temperatures all year round, allowing us to carry out outdoor activities all year round.

Catania is the second-largest city of Sicily after Palermo; the University of Catania has been selected for MUV experimentation. Founded in 1434, the University of Catania is the oldest university in Sicily, the 13th oldest in Italy, and the 29th oldest university in the world. With a population of over 60,000 students, it is the main university in Sicily. The University of Catania joined the MUV network as part of the Memorandum of Understanding with the LIFE U-MOB project, with a focus on applying the MUV service to its extensive population of students, faculty and staff, with an impact not only on University live but the broader City of Catania (over 300,000 population) as a whole. As a partner of the U-MOB project, the University of Catania brings to the MUV network the project’s results and partners: 12 sustainable mobility training modules in the U-MOB course, 76 U-MOB Network partners, and 100 mobility best practices. The special MUV-U-MOB Tournament involved 21 Universities and was another successful test of the MUV business model as applied to a specifically defined user group.

Chieri is a municipality located about 11 kilometres southeast of Turin (Italy). MUV users are students and teachers as well, of Monti & Vittone institutes (High Schools). The main tourist sites of Chieri are: Duomo, Triumphal Arch, Jewish Ghetto, Textile Museum, Martini & Rossi Museum, Archaeological Museum, Don Bosco Museum, Ethnographic Museum, Natural History Museum, many historical buildings and churches, library. The main shopping center is "Il Gialdo”.

Codlea is a small city with 20.000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area of Brasov in the center of Romania. It is located at the National Road Number 1, the most used road in Romania, hence our traffic problems with the lack of a bypass road. The highway Transylvania is planned to be built next to our city, while in 2021 we expect the opening of the Brasov Airport at a distance of about 5 km from the city center. We therefore have all the problems of a big city in a small scale in our 850 years old town.

In Italy, Fiera Milano S.p.A. manages the two exhibition sites of at Rho (Milan), the leading exhibition site in Italy with indoor exhibition space of 345,000 gross square metres and 60,000 of outdoor space, and in Milan, a city-centre site of 54,000 square metres of gross exhibition space. Rho is a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Milan in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 14 kilometres northwest of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million while its metropolitan city has 3,261,873 inhabitants. Both exhibition sites can be reached using mass transport systems such as underground and railway including high-speed trains. Fiera Milano hosts over 4 million visitors per year: Fiera Milano generates a significant social and economic impact both at national and at local level, including environment and mobility.

San Dona’ di Piave is located 35 km from Mestre; 40 km from Venice; and 40 km from Treviso. Its population was 41883 inhabitants at the beginning of 2017. The city is part of an integrated regional economy of the recently formed Venice Metropolitan City. Approximately a quarter of the city’s population commute out of the city daily for work or study purposes. The city is very well positioned in the metropolitan economy, even though its vocation has witnessed radical transformations in the last few years. In particular the opening of large, attractive commercial hubs in the outskirts of the city and in neighbouring towns questioned the identity of the city centre as a lively hub for retail and service activities. The global financial crisis was felt by the city in the form of a dramatic shrinking of the construction sector that was burgeoning until 2006. Despite the hardships brought about by the global economic and financial crisis, the city showed a certain resilience and its economy exhibits encouraging signs of dynamism.

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AMSTERDAM

A SUCCESSFUL EVENT ‘Hackathon / Creathon’ 20/03/2020

It was an online meeting, due to the Covid-19 emergency. The session started with an introduction of all participants and their motivation to join. The participants were then challenged to take upon the role of mobility manager for their neighbourhood Zeeburgereiland and to address the mobility issues in that area. A presentation about the challenges and ambitions of the City of Amsterdam and their Smart Mobility programme which they have started up to tackle these challenges was given by one of the City’s representatives to lead the participants into the topic. After identifying the mobility issues of Zeeburgeiland, the City’s representative continued with the second part of his presentation by explaining how the city is using data to help tackle the challenges and is now building a data platform providing access to multimodal mobility data such as pedestrian, bicycle, shared mobility, taxi and car data for both monitoring and analysis purposes. Participants were asked to think about the mobility issues they addressed earlier and how data can help to solve these issues.

BARCELONA

A SUCCESSFUL EVENT #MuvHackaton 21/03/2020 - 22/03/2020

The event was a 24h online hackathon involving, as participants, common citizens, activists, motivated sustainable mobility people, geek people, together with mobility managers, sponsor companies - directly or not related with mobility - research centers, and the local government and administration. It aims with demonstrate the fundamental MUV concept that, thanks to the gathered data, it could be possible to find and offer to the citizens new solutions based on the data created by themselves using the MUV app as well as other data available on the net. The challenge was to get new feasible ideas and proposals related with sustainable mobility, health, local commerce, with the possibility to have a future development related or not with MUV2020. Among the initially 16 registered teams (36 participants), 10 teams appeared at the beginning of the event (19 participants) and 6 of them were able to present a final solution. During the event, eleven mentors were available to offer their expertise and knowledge to the contestants Five people from different areas of expertise and sectors had been members of the jury. Six different and highly interesting proposal from the teams have been evaluated. The winning team proposed a transport solution that integrates all current modes with trips recommendations based on personal preferences and propose the user the best fare solution for him. The tool proposes 5 different routes taylored on user interests: fit, eco, shop, … Each proposal informs about cost, time, pollution and calories

ENGAGEMENT MATERIALS

GHENT

A SUCCESSFUL EVENT Mobility week 09/2019

After a brainstorm with LSO & citizens (22/08), the decision was made to launch a campaign regarding the use of the MUV-app as a tool to empower the demands for more road safety. This was the trigger for citizens to use the app and gave a lot of data on the sustainable mobility routes in the neighborhood to feed a discussion with mobility managers. Together with the City of Ghent, an expo regarding Mobility in the neighborhood took place. The results of the previous MUV-campaign ‘De Loods shows the way’ was on sight. A free breakfast for all citizens and the expo of 2 days, gave the opportunity to talk face-to-face with inhabitants, LSO representatives and Mobility managers. Paint actions on the street, posters, flyers, social media, etc. All these communication actions were set up to launch the campaign. During this month an intensive online content planning was crucial to keep the MUVers moving. Local businesses received a promo-package so they could spread the word in their company (poster for at the coffee machine, a bag shield for the most active MUVer in the company, an invitation for the breakfast and handouts).

ENGAGEMENT MATERIALS

FUNDÃO

A SUCCESSFUL EVENT Second MUV Open Day 22/09/2019

In September 2019, in occasion of the European Mobility Week, the second MUV Open Day took place in Fundão Parque Verde: the main goal was to gather the community of MUV Users, promote the download and the onboarding of new users and to sponsor the Second International Sustainable City Tournament. The participants were requested to complete three simple different games in three different stations. The first game consisted of download the app and register a trip with a transport mean chosen by spinning a wheel. The second game was a kind of memo game with a set of cards related to the City Tournament teams logos and names. In the last station, the participants were requested to answer a brief survey about their mobility habits. All the participants completing the three games were rewarded with a t-shirt and gained the possibility to win extra prizes, offered by LSO through a lottery. Some students of Fundão vocational school participate as volunteer staff members.

ENGAGEMENT MATERIALS

PALERMO

A SUCCESSFUL EVENT Innovation Network Meetup 03/2019

In March 2019 the local community, local supporting organizations, Municipality representatives and professional MUV Users have gathered together for the launch of the series of Special Trainings (sponsored activities) in occasion of the Innovation Network Meetup. The event’s targets were mostly professionals who embraced new mobility habits and were committed to be part of social change in their city. At the end of the presentation, the audience has been involved in a voting process to select new avatar related to sustainability values.

ENGAGEMENT MATERIALS

HELSINKI

A SUCCESSFUL EVENT The Air Quality Troops 09/2019

Together with Vekotinverstas (‘D-I-Y Gadget factory’) which consists of a members of IoT team from Forum Virium Helsinki, MUV project was helping to establishing Air Quality Troops. The Air Quality Troops consist of volunteered residents who are interested in participating and measuring the air quality with D-I-Y equipments and monitoring stations at their homes in Jätkäsaari. Forum Virium Helsinki helped with the installation. There were in total 5 installed monitoring stations. We spread the call on social media (Twitter, FB) and on FVH’s webpage and participate in the event.

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Amsterdam pilots were focused on the question of data governance: How can MUV data best be organized, used, and governed? The activities and sessions in the the co-creation aimed to answer this question along with citizens, government officials, and commercial platforms.

Pilot coordinators in Palermo entered the last co-creation cycle with the goal to continue developing a positive dialogue on mobility with the local community and to select high-quality and feasible concepts stemming from MUV evidences through co-creation. The co-creation session created an open opportunity for ideation of such concepts, which were then narrowed down to five proposals for mobility solutions, which the pilot will continued to explore through an e-partecipation process.

The Barcelona pilot aimed to first develop a co-creative method for analysing data, and then co-create policy recommendations based on that data. Pilot coordinators also used co-creation sessions as to expand their network of stakeholders: specifically, they view the co-creation cycles as an opportunity to open up the project to the city as a whole.

Pilot coordinators in Fundão aimed to utilize the co-creation activities to reactivate the local mobility community. With the help of citizens’ ‘project ambassadors’, the pilot looked to strengthen existing local ties while also expanding to new community members. With this strengthened network, the Fundão pilot explored how people move from nearby villages to Fundão.

The Ghent pilot focused on safety, which was identified as a major concern for community members during previous co-creation cycles. Ghent hosted a number of activities and sessions during the co-creation cycles that expanded upon and raised awareness about their existing campaigns about safe routes through the neighborhood. They have done so in part by focusing on specific mobility groups, such as cyclists and students.

Helsinki’s focus in the co-creation activities was on how to make use of community-gathered data towards developing novel strategies for working with this and other traffic data. The co-creation sessions developed concrete options for achieving this: for example, creating a mobility panel of MUVers; combining qualitative and quantitative data in traffic planning; and developing a system to allow and promote feedback and dialogue between citizens and traffic authorities.

AMSTERDAM

MOBILITY SOLUTIONS DISSEMINATION

Several online meetups involved citizens, policymakers, and other stakeholders They made use of three main activities: Presentations followed by open questioning; moderated group discussion; and an online forum. The forum was made open during and following the digital meetups.

POLICYMAKERS EVALUATION

MUV pilot partners [Waag and Gemeente Amsterdam] held a series of sessions with citizens and representatives from municipal departments (such as innovation, urban planning, traffic management, etc.). Over the course of these sessions, participants developed ways to implement MUV’s approach to citizen participation in forthcoming projects involving data and mobility – specifically, the co-creation of a value ladder and subsequent design principles for how mobility data is gathered and used, and recommendations on how to improve citizen participation in future mobility efforts in Amsterdam.

SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTATION

The outputs of the participatory process feed directly into the Amsterdam municipality’s ‘MobiLab’. This is the ‘DDMDM hub’ of the Amsterdam CTO. It is the central point for mobility data. By involving municipal employees who lead the MobiLab, the final MUV pilot aims to develop inroads for long-term participation between citizens and the DDMDMs working in MobiLab.

BARCELONA

MOBILITY SOLUTIONS DISSEMINATION

On the occasion of the 2nd MUV D-Day in october 2019, citizens have been requested to fill a mobility question card to indicate their feelings and needs about mobility and environmental issues. The Barcelona #MuvHackathon has been a really interesting event to disseminate the project and to show available MUV data for future analysis and decisions evaluation.

POLICYMAKERS EVALUATION

All the documents and results of the co-creation sessions and citizens inputs have been shared with the municipality offering them ideas and potential solutions to apply mainly within Sant Andreu district but as well within the rest of the city. Some of the proposals and ideas from the #MuvHackathon are evaluated by the Barcelona ATM (metropolitan authority transport), one of the event sponsors, for future considerations.

SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTATION

Municipality mobility priorities and air quality policies found a confirmation in co-created solutions, with particular regard to: Helping to create environmental awareness through monitoring stations. The obtained data may be used in the educational area, encouraging young people and children to protect and help the local communities. Environmental awareness promotion by offering air quality data to citizenship as a public service. Bike and motorbike sharing. New regulations set out the conditions for the implementation and use of these vehicles to improve compatibility and safety, avoiding the saturation of public space.

GHENT

MOBILITY SOLUTIONS DISSEMINATION

In September 2019, together with the City of Ghent, an expo regarding Mobility in the neighborhood took place. The results of the previous MUV-campaign ‘De Loods shows the way’ was on sight. A free breakfast for all citizens and the expo of 2 days, gave the opportunity to talk face-to-face with inhabitants, LSO representatives and Mobility managers.

POLICYMAKERS EVALUATION

The proposals have been the subject of a meeting with policymakers and Data Driven Decision Makers in March 2020.

SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTATION

Thanks to the different activities, people are discussing mobility and Data Driven Mobility Decision Makers are confronted with quantitative & qualitative data that can be helpful in generating insights for upcoming projects.

FUNDÃO

MOBILITY SOLUTIONS DISSEMINATION

The results of the co-creation workshops have become object of a web survey, addressed to the citizenship. The survey was disseminated through social media, an interactive poster campaign and through face-to-face communication during a Christmas Market. A report of the most voted ideas was presented to the policymakers, both technical and political ones, based on about 50 answers that have been collected.

POLICYMAKERS EVALUATION

About 7 people among city planners and politicians have been requested to fill a specific online form in order to evaluate the feasibility of the most significant mobility solutions proposed by the citizens. They founded more feasible ideas regarding, mostly, the creation of a local car pooling system (based on both online and offline scheduling procedures), the implementation of pedestrian and cycling paths.

SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTATION

According with the last meeting with Municipality representants, the ideas to turn in actions will be: A campaign to foster pedestrian mobility associated with the creation of pedestrian paths; The usage of MUVapp after the end of the project, possibly integrating it with incentives in some City services/taxes; The valorization of co-created solutions as “ideas bank”, usable in the application process to European funding programmes related to mobility.

HELSINKI

MOBILITY SOLUTIONS DISSEMINATION

In January 2020, a “Resident’s evening” took place in the neighborhood. The aim of the evening was to discuss the findings of MUV projects and raise residents’ ideas for further residential participation. Participants considered MUV data as a possible way to influence urban design and the city’s representatives.

POLICYMAKERS EVALUATION

A workshop and 3 meetings with city officials (from November 2019 to February 2020) have been carried on. There were also many informal contacts (e.g. calls, encounters in other meetings and events) to the city officials, leading to creating a tight network and mutual trust between the City and Forum Virium.

SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTATION

The City of Helsinki is willing to build a digital platform for mobility and transportation data. Thanks to co-creation process, FVH helped the City’s officials to make a plan and roadmap for ICT purchases. MUV data played an important role to discuss the quality of the mobility data in data-driven-decision-making processes and City’s official are interested in its novelty. Furthermore, the governmental organisation, Sustainable development company Motiva, also showed high interest and gave its full support to MUV project. Cooperation between FVH and city representatives will continue after the project in a form of other EU funded projects.

PALERMO

MOBILITY SOLUTIONS DISSEMINATION

The results of the co-creation workshops have become object of a web survey, addressed to the citizenship. The survey was disseminated through social media, an interactive poster campaign and through the Municipality website. A report of the most voted ideas was presented to the policymakers, both technical and political ones, based on about 120 answers that have been collected.

POLICYMAKERS EVALUATION

On December 2019, during the Data Driven Mobility Decision Makers meeting, the results of the co-creation process and the related evaluation by citizens were presented, Ten evaluators belonged to different professional areas and covered different decision-making roles. They were required to express their opinions, following several suggested criteria, on 10 projects. They were also invited to express how much their evaluation - on a percentage scale - was of a technical or political nature. This self-assessment, then, made it possible to weight the averages taking into account the specific role and skills.

SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTATION

From the analysis of the answers provided by MUV, the Municipality of Palermo was able to elaborate the following “Self recommendations”: Getting safety and security on cycle tracks; Building new cycle paths keep safe from vehicle traffic; Greater public lighting on roads and pedestrian crossings; Improve the air quality in the historic center; Extend the limitation to vehicular traffic at night hours; Enhance the participatory process by implementing co-creation and gamification activities as learned during the project activities; Focusing on social media as a prevalent communication tool and on a fun, fresh and fast communication suitable to a younger audience; Handle feedbacks from public and private both sides ; Involve schools in activities related to the promotion of more sustainable forms of mobility.