Key word: Promotion sustainable urban mobility

Main characteristics:

• Population about 60000
• Strategic location in North Central region of Bulgaria,
• Highly industrialized area with a very proactive local government, working on sustainable urban mobility, sustainable climate and energy transition with final goal to achieve carbon neutrality till 2030.

Challenges to tackle:

• Long shaped city, quite long distances to the city center 
• Limited population
• Lack of traffic management and traffic control in the city
• Lack of well developed cycling infrastructure
• Risk areas around the schools   

Main goals of the LL:

• Improve safety conditions in the roads
• Cut down emissions from road transport
• Reduce traffic by improvement of traffic management and control
• Increase public transport usage and active mobility  

Key words: safety, security, sustainability, active mobility, inclusion, accessibility, liveability, people in vulnerable situations, walking

Main characteristics:

• Almost 2 million inhabitants.
• One of Europe’s busiest ports which is a major feeder for the Baltic Sea too.
• Renowned for its dense, modern, vertical, urban development, particularly in the HafenCity, one of Europe’s largest inner-city regeneration projects.
• More than 500,000 commuters each day and a major tourist destination.
• Good public transport network, bicycle and scooter sharing as well as car sharing
• Flat topography

Challenges to tackle:

• Despite having an extensive public transportation network, Hamburg’s streets are still car dominated (moving and stationary).
• A lot has been done for making the transportation system more accessible and inclusive, but further improvement is still going on.
• Car traffic and low accessibility for pedestrians in some areas create safety risks for vulnerable groups, such as the elderly, and hinder the use of active mobility options.

Main goals of the LL:

• Reduce car traffic while promoting more sustainable and active mobility alternatives in the district of Hamburg-Lohbrügge
• Enhance the interaction between different modes of transport
• Create higher liveability in streets.
• Make transportation safer, and more environmentally friendly by means of scalable and transferable measures.

Key word: active mobility

Main characteristics:

• Almost 16 M inhabitant
• Geographically connects The Europe and The Asia continents through the Bosphorus with 3 bridges and one underwater tunnel – 65% of Istanbul’s land area in on Europe and the rest of the 35% is on Asia.
• Has a hilly topography.
• One of the densest vertical urbanisation among the cities of the world. 
• Has rich cultural history since it played an important role throughout the centuries. Attracts lots of domestic and foreign tourists.

Challenges to tackle:

• Since İstanbul is so densely populated, transportation of the inhabitants environmentally becomes a great challenge. Amongst 11,6 million trips performed each day, only 28% are made by public transportation and 0,5% by bicycle.
• People are uneducated and confused about how to share lanes with bicycles, and cyclists where to cycle and where not to cycle.    

Main goals of the LL:

• Improving the existing bicycle paths. 
• Educating people about cycling is not only for recreational use but a mode of transportation.
• Creating the mentality of respecting cyclists in traffic among the inhabitants of city of İstanbul, is a must for the safety of cyclists and pedestrians around them.

Key word: developing sustainable mobility

Main characteristics:

• Population about 73000, growth driver city in southeastern Finland, located by the lake Saimaa the fourth-largest natural freshwater lake in Europe

Challenges to tackle:

• Long shaped city, quite long distances to the city center, limited population

Main goals of the LL:

• Increasing use of public transport, electric traffic, biogas traffic

Key word: Promotion sustainable urban mobility

Main characteristics:

• 15,6 M inhab registered.
• Geographically split into Europe and Asia with a connection through the Bosphorus strait.
• One of the densest vertical urbaniSation in the world.

Challenges to tackle:

• Municipality dispersion and the existence of three main axes (boteh regional and national roads) poses great challenges for the management of the mobility of the municipality especially for the promotion of active mobility (pedestrians and cyclists) 
• Environmental problems generated in recent years in the municipalities by the excessive use of polluting vehicles   

Main goals of the LL:

• Improve mobility solutions so that the people who arrive to the city every day, through the train stations, can access the centres of attraction such as the universities or the office and business areas 
• Optimise bike and pedestrian routes to schools 
• Improve mobility planning process  
• Make and inventory of the transport and mobility infrastructure of Las Rozas 
• Improving the knowledge of mobility needs of its residents and visitors 

Key words: safety, bicycle

Main characteristics:

• Safety-Oriented Design: Focuses on integrating traffic lights, dedicated bicycle paths, and pedestrian infrastructure to ensure safe transitions for cyclists and pedestrians.
• Accessibility Improvements: Enhances entry and exit points for staff and visitors, making the campus more user-friendly during both daily operations and events.
• Sustainability Focus: Promotes eco-friendly mobility by prioritizing cycling and pedestrian movement within urban transport planning.
• Inclusive Infrastructure: Addresses the needs of diverse users, including cyclists, pedestrians, and event participants, fostering a shared and sustainable urban space.

Challenges to tackle:

• Cyclists exiting the Bicycle Campus are forced into flowing traffic without a safe transition, creating significant safety risks.
• Lack of essential infrastructure such as traffic lights, bicycle path connections, pedestrian sidewalks, and crosswalks exacerbates the danger for all road users.
• Difficult access to the campus impacts staff during workdays and limits citizen participation in events, hindering overall usability and engagement.

Main goals of the SIA:

• Establish safe and seamless connections for cyclists, including traffic lights and dedicated bicycle paths.
• Create pedestrian-friendly infrastructure, such as sidewalks and crosswalks, to enhance accessibility for all users.
• Improve access points to the campus to facilitate smoother entry and exit for staff and citizens during events, ensuring inclusivity and safety.

Key word: safety, security and inclusion

Main characteristics:

• Improve accessibility, safety and inclusion of touristic itineraries for people with disabilities

Challenges to tackle:

• Raising awareness among stakeholders
• Boosting skills and competences
• Adapting existing info package and signals

Main goals of the SIA:

• Boost competencies, improve accessibility and promote route’s safety for people with disabilities 

Main characteristics:

Gabrovo SIA is the area of School “Saints Cyril and Methodious”, which is one of the biggest schools in Gabrovo, situated in one of Gabrovo most populated districts, with a heavy traffic and risky safety conditions for its students.

Challenges to tackle:

Gabrovo needs to reduce parental driving to and from public school by encouraging citizens to cycle and walk. Currently, parents perceive the areas around schools as dangerous for teenagers commuting without a car.

Main goals of the SIA:

• Improve safety conditions for students in a school area trough reduction of parental driving to and from the public school;
• Encourage public transport use, walking and biking;
• Improve air quality.

Key word: safety and security

Main characteristics:

• High urban mobility with majority of daily activities carried out on foot. 

Challenges to tackle:

• Daytime population density represents 10 times the night-time population. 
• Complicated cohabitation between vehicles and pedestrians. 
• Due to the usage of fossil fuel-based vehicles, air quality is going worse in most of the areas of the city.
• Due to usage of fossil fuel-based vehicles and the unnecessary usage of their klaxons, the noise pollution is going worse in most of the areas of the city, especially in the areas which have heavy traffic.
• Finding the conflicts and risk creating components for the traffic 

Main goals of the SIA:

• Measurement of the noise and air quality before and after the pedestrianisation
• Creating cleaner, safer, more accessible and more inclusive areas for the inhabitants, for everyone to have a public place where they can have some social time with the benefits of having better air quality, a safe place away from motored vehicles for their kids and animals, less noise pollution, and better accessibility for fragile groups, such as disabled people, people with the stroller, elderly people, and etc.
• “Mobility Observation Box (MOB)” will be used to analyse and overcome the risks and conflicts in the pilot abovementioned area.   

Key word: safety and security

Main characteristics:

• School district area that includes 2 schools, 2 kindergartens, music school, art school, library, public space, and public transportation stops. Streets with poorly coordinated traffic flow can be observed in the area. Residents and students use the streets for their daily activities. The area is considered unsafe due to lack of traffic organization and sidewalks.

Challenges to tackle:

• Change of resident’s behaviour about mobility, designing and implementing effective traffic reorganization that arranges safe and comfortable movement of all road users, especially in the morning hours 

Main goals of the SIA:

• Effective traffic reorganisation, increased usage of other mobility modes (bicycles, public transportation, etc.)

Key word: safety and security

Main characteristics:

• Las Rozas is well connected to the capital, Madrid, through highways
• Existence of bus lanes and commuter trains that connect the capital and other municipalities with Las Rozas 

Challenges to tackle:

• Traffic jams that increase pollution  
• Bus routes partially suffer the traffic problem by having a specific bus lane 
• Commuter stations are located at the far side of the city, and people must cross the major highways to access the business centres and universities
• Pedestrian walkways are not as safe routes as needed for citizens to take personal mobility vehicles to access their work or study centres safely

Main goals of the SIA:

• Establish sustainable and attractive access routes to the city for citizens, but also safe intra-mobility routes within the city
• Implement large centres of concentration of personal mobility vehicles 
• Create multimodal mobility areas 
• Look for new mobility solutions for employes

Keywords: Perceived safety and pedestrian experience

Main characteristics:

Highly trafficked intersection with much tourist activity in a historic district of the town near the “old city”. In addition to Mary’s Well (located on-site) and the Orthodox Church of the Annunciation (not far away), there are also several local schools and hotels nearby, attracting more vulnerable pedestrian groups.

Challenges to tackle:

Space is at a premium, and invasive interventions discouraged, in this historic locale. Additionally, the intersection is located on an urban artery, which is crucial for the large flows of vehicular traffic passing through the city each day.

Main goals of the SIA:

Improve the feeling of comfort and safety for pedestrians passing through or visiting this area of the city.

Key word: safety, security and inclusion

Main characteristics:

Project A) It is often said that Iceland has a “car culture”. The citizens of Reykjavík are heavily dependent on cars and due to heightened individualism in the society, people mostly drive by themselves rather than car-pooling. Using public transport has been considered taboo by locals, and biking or walking is often not considered feasible.

Project B) Hlemmur square is a historical mobility hub undergoing major transformations from 2022-2027. Over time it has been a bus hub with roads on two sides to serve heavy car traffic. It has completely lacked appeal to pedestrians or other modes of transport than cars/buses coming through, regardless e.g., of the number of people on foot in the area. Hlemmur is undergoing major transformation where private cars will not be allowed to pass through, and more space dedicated to cyclists and pedestrians. The construction period will last a few years but the mobility hub is central in the city and many people move through the site.

Challenges to tackle:

Project A) Increasing green mobility in one to two neighbourhoods through use of behavioral interventions, addressing the culture of cars in those neighbourhoods through community.

Project B) Creating a successful co-existing of pedestrians, cyclist and commuters by other means during the construction period.

Main goals of the SIA (project B):

As many areas in the city are being constructed for years at a time, with many commuters passing through, we will find ways to make these areas easier, safer and more accessible to commute through. The focus is on the main mobility hub, Hlemmur, as many people still need to pass through there. Parts of Hlemmur will be ready during AMIGOS, and we can therefore measure how people move through both the construction site as well as the newly developed parts of the hub. In the redesign of Hlemmur, much of the land around the square will be reallocated, combining a key hub on a new carbon-neutral Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line – coming through on a single dedicated lane – and green, inclusive and lively environment for residents and tourists, extending bars/restaurants, performance and play areas over a significantly enlarged square to encourage community feel.
The design of the hub is key in routing all private cars to nearby carparks and accommodating for safe transition between different modes of transport with easy access for bikes and small e-vehicles (rentals/charging), pedestrians and other microflows. The goal with the hub redesign is to create an inclusive area for everyone to enjoy and move through safely.
In addition to measuring how people flow through, the goal of this project is to increase ease of flow for commuters to pass through the site during construction. The focus will be on pedestrians, cyclists and vulnerable road users such as older people, children, people with strollers and people with disabilities.
Two “Mobility Observation Box (MOB)” will be used to analyse and overcome the risks and conflicts in the area.

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Key words: safe and sustainable urban mobility

Main characteristics:

• Large transport hub; more than 770,000 inhabitants and more than 350,000 commuter per day
• Wide variety of public transport (suburban train, metro, tram and bus); city of short distances (lots of foot and bike traffic as well as e-scooters); mobilized individual traffic dominated

Challenges to tackle:

• Growing mobility on limited road width; area competition between different forms of mobility, high number of moving people around the city (especially rush hour);
• Changing individual attitudes towards alternative forms sustainable mobility; accessibility

Main goals of the SIA:

Strengthening safe and sustainable urban mobility, reduction of mobilized individual traffic (Reduction of use and land requirements, increase of traffic safety and quality of life); greater area efficiency

Key word: active mobility

Main characteristics:

• When taking into account Gozo’s geographical characteristics, and population, it is clear that the number of registered vehicles per capita is high. Local people consider owning a vehicle as a necessity. What is striking is that during the past decade, the number of registered vehicles has doubled when the population did not.

Challenges to tackle:

• Changing mentality; steep topography; public transport network

Main goals of the SIA:

Increase the usage of other mobility modes (like bicycles or electric powered ones and public transport), increase the usage of public transport; adopting a more friendly usage public transport network. 

Keywords: safety and accessibility

Main characteristics:

• 3rd largest predominantly Arab city in Israel, with 59,000 residents of whom 99.9% are Muslim Arabs

Challenges to tackle:

• Steep topography, narrow street rights-of-way, and poor network connectivity

Main goals of the TC:

• Transferring the lessons learned from SIA’s and implementing them in a new context, in the process giving new tools to local officials which will enable them to greater serve the urban denizens

Between the River Rhine and the hills of the Taunus lies the former spa town and current state capital of Hesse. Hot springs, beautiful architecture, parks and green spaces characterise the city.

With more than 280,000 inhabitants, Wiesbaden is the second largest city in Hesse after Frankfurt am Main and is part of the Rhine-Main metropolitan region.