BRUSSEL
Living Lab
Shared Micromobility
Car Sharing & Car Pooling
Brussels LL will investigate the role of shared mobility in reducing car dependency in urban outskirts for activities not possible to fulfil within 15 minutes of walking or cycling. We will look at the market potential of electric cargo-bike sharing linked to an existing car-sharing service; carpooling related to caring (e.g., hospitals, schools) using shared vehicles; and the feasibility of a business model for vehicles sharing by companies based in urban outskirts outside of business hours.
BUDAPEST
Living Lab
Shared Micromobility
Budapest LL will test a shared micromobility service in Rákosmente (an outskirt district of Budapest with low walkability and high car dependency) to assess the impacts of shared micromobility on improving accessibility, supporting behavioural change of local residents, and technological and financial barriers to maintaining the services.
MUNICH
Living Lab
Mobility Hubs
Car Sharing & Car Pooling
Munich LL will explore strategies to mitigate inequalities in access to basic needs within 15-minute neighbourhoods in outskirts together with potential improvements focusing on people with migration background. We will also evaluate the potential of emerging micromobility hubs and ride-sharing/carpooling schemes in urban outskirts with SIXT share and MVV.
PARIS
Living Lab
Mobility Hubs
Paris LL will examine the potential of mobility hubs on accessibility, mobility behaviours, and urban development of this region and envisage further development of these hubs. Essonne département and Region Île-de-France, (multimodal) mobility hubs emerged due to the upscaling of a network of car-pooling parking infrastructures connected to feeder modes – walking and (shared) cycling, carpooling lines services – and to public transport, including new BRT lines.
VIENNA
Living Lab
Mobility Hubs
Flexible Activity Locations
Demand-Responsive Services
Vienna LL will explore different service characteristics, spatial distribution, and business models of mobility hubs, demand-responsive transport services, and on-demand local stores. Vienna LL will examine the effects of flexible activity hubs and mobility services on encouraging residents to do select activities locally and to travel sustainably. We will also assess the potential of the demand-responsive public transport and mobility hubs (and their mix) to reduce mobility issues in urban outskirts.
UTRECHT
Living Lab
Shared Micromobility
Utrecht LL will examine and test different business and governance frameworks models to develop new mobility hubs with shared e-bikes in a post-WWII district of the city of Utrecht with a low socio-economic status where currently no operators are active (Overvecht). The LL will contribute to the development of a new regulatory framework for micromobility services to be introduced in 2024, to create a more socially inclusive distribution of micromobility services.
