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Trikala has a large tradition in mobility projects. As a matter of fact, Trikala is Greece’s first smart city and also the first city in the country to have a driverless bus. In the context of cities-4-people, Trikala decided to help people combine different activities in the centre where all services are gathered (supermarkets, leisureRead more

Scaling-up in Trikala will focus on the provision of electric wheelchair scooters for people with disabilities. The service introduced during the first round of pilots will be now further improved and expanded. To do so, during the prototyping event, our team in Trikala aimed to point out and successfully resolve potential risks or obstacles thatRead more

Building on the results of the Presentation Day and Hack Day, the Trikala Cities-4-People team organised the Quadruple Helix Stakeholders event to involve its Mobility Community in the final selection of the intervention to be scaled up. Decision makers from the local authority, including the Municipal Department for Civil Planning, the Department of Green SpacesRead more

The Trikala Hack Day was held on 20 September at the e-trikala Operational Control Center and immediately followed the Presentation Day. During the first piloting round, the Citizen Mobility Community in Trikala came up with a solution to reduce the traffic in the city centre by installing easily accessible, free lockers inside the Info Point,Read more

The Mobility Community of Trikala gathered on 20 September at the e-Trikala Operational Control Center for its Presentation Day. The event was held on the occasion of the Mobility Week, which contributed to populate the centre of Trikala with numerous citizens. Originally planned to take place on the Boat Dock (an open air location), theRead more

Shopping can turn into a “heavy” experience, mostly if you find yourself carrying around piles of bags. In this case, parking a car close by or calling relatives to pick up the bags can be the most straightforward solution, but it does not come without costs: congestion gets worse, drivers become nervous and pollution increases.Read 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

You may personally know the Matsopoulos Mill cultural centre from a previous visit or you may recall it from the description of the HackDay that was held there by e-trikala and Q-PLAN International in June 2018. A few months afterwards, last 2 October, the Citizen Mobility Community and our local team convened again to theRead more

Following up on the Presentation Day, an Hackday per pilot area was organised over the summer. On 29 June 2018 it was Trikala’s turn. Between 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. participants gathered at the Matsopoulos Mill. The location had several advantages: it is very well known by Trikala’s citizens because it is a place where manyRead more

Trikala’s Presentation Day took place on 8 June at the Tsitsanis Museum, a new popular cultural centre close to the central square (and therefore also to the Citizen Mobility Lab). Besides our local partners (e-trikala and Q-PLAN International), other organisations participated in the event to share their view on the opportunities Cities-4-People creates for themRead more