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During the course of Cities-4-People, Budapest has brought together its local community to rethink and transform  the mobility landscape of the city. Through a bottom-down, collaborative process, the local community pinned down the predominant challenge and decided to bring people closer to Danube river bank on the Buda side, that runs through the center ofRead more

On 25 June 2020, our Cities-4-People Team in Budapest organised an official opening ceremony for the Mobility Point network at Magyar tudósok körútja. Because of the risks related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was only targeted to representatives from the press this time. A bigger event for citizens will be organised in autumn. OverRead more

Prototyping in Budapest focused on improving the Mobility Point pilot. The event was held in Budapest on 7 October 2019, in the form of a 3 hours workshop engaging with key stakeholders. Starting from the outcomes of the first pilot round, the benefits and issues that emerged during the first round of the pilot atRead more

In Budapest, the car-free weekend of the European Mobility Week, 21-22 September 2019, provided a very good opportunity to hold an open-door QHS workshop. The Presentation Day and Hack Day took place earlier in the same week, and now it was the time to set up two offline voting boards for local citizens, representatives ofRead more

In Budapest, the Hack Day was combined with the Presentation Day and was held on 17 September at the Municipality of the City of Budapest. Following the Presentation Day in which the Mobility Community was informed of the results of the pilot implementation, the goal of the Hack Day was to collect ideas for locationsRead more

Sustainable and active mobility was the leading concept of the interventions piloted in Budapest. During the first round of pilots that was concluded over the summer, Budapest fostered shared sustainable mobility through a Mobility Point, experimented with improving mobility along the Danube and introduced a walking path to explore the city in a fun way.Read more

A pedestrian route called ‘Buda Walking Path (BWP) has been piloted in July and August 2019 as part of the Cities-4-People project in Budapest. It is inspired to a forest hiking trail, where one can follow the blue marks on trees to move from one station to another. In Budapest’s case, specific signs direct citizensRead more

Piloting in Budapest has focused on bringing citizens closer to the Danube. The first intervention regarded the creation of a Mobility Point at St. Gellért, a busy transport hub along the Danube river bank on the Buda side. Five mobility providers joined the initiative and e-cars, scooters and bikes are now at disposal for allRead more

Our three interventions in Budapest included the setup of a Mobility point at St. Gellért Square, at the exit of the Metro Line 4. St. Gellért Square is a busy public transport hub along the Danube river bank on the Buda side. The Mobility point was installed to help achieve urban micro-mobility objectives.  More precisely, itRead more

If you follow Cities-4-People, you may know that we have entered the prototyping phase, during which the pilot areas work on a prototype for each of the three selected concepts, for a total of fifteen prototypes. The prototypes will bridge the concepts to the actual piloting phase, when things will get (even more) real andRead more