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BartOn the Move has official launch its pilot. This April, our local team will give you the possibility to sign up for free for rides to affordable supermarkets, choosing between two options: either a quick trip Moreover, there will training sessions held every Friday to give support to all those who do not feel comfortableRead 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

Like all the other pilot areas, the local team in Oxfordshire held a Quadruple Helix Stakeholder (QHS) workshop to finetune the selection of intervention proposals for Barton and narrow it down to 5. The initial selection was done during the Hack Day and entailed 12 concepts, namely: Multi-modal link-up in terms of locations and/or timingRead more

While the French were remembering the Storming of the Bastille, on July, 14th the Barton Neighbourhood Centre was hosting another BartOn The Move event: the Hack Day. From 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. local authorities, representatives of the mobility industry, academics, citizens and members of the civil society gathered to discuss the highest priority ideasRead more

On June, 7th 2018, the SUMPs-Up project organised a Mobility Practitioner Workshop on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans at the Midlands Art Centre in Birmingham. The objectives were primarily three: showcasing the SUMPs-Up Civitas project looking at case studies sharing learning between similar projects in different areas around sustainable urban mobility and co-creation. Our partners fromRead more

4 academics, 2 local elected councillors, 4 transport providers and 58 citizens met on 23 June 2018 at the Barton Neighbourhood Centre for the Cities-4-People Presentation Day. This is not the beginning of a joke. It is part of the magic of this project: bringing together people with different backgrounds, needs and perspectives to tryRead more

The Cities-4-People Citizen Mobility Community in Oxford is working with the provider of a new Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) service to overcome the mobility challenges they have identified. The Cities-4-People project has been working with BartOn the Move, a mobility community in Oxford, to identify the mobility issues they face and then design and implementRead more

The Mobility Lab in Oxford was launched on 28th of March at the Barton Neighbourhood Centre. The Centre is a great location insofar as it is close to the project intervention area and, therefore, relevant to people attending the centre. As a matter of fact, Cities-4-People settled on the Eastern side of the city ofRead more

Our team at the Oxforshire County Council organised the consultation workshop on February, 7th 2018, inviting members of the local community and participants from the previous warm-up and co-creation events. The goals of the event were to define the structure of the Citizen Mobility Community, to develop a plan for expanding the Community and toRead more

The Oxfordshire County Council did not organise one single co-creation workshop. OCC organised three: Rose Hill on the 14th of December 2017 with 14 participants Barton Neighbourhood Centre on the 9th of January 2018 with 14 participants County Hall, Oxford on the 11th of January 2018 with 14 participants. These three co-creation workshops followed upRead more