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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

One of the objectives of Cities-4-People is enabling the replication of successful urban mobility interventions. We are of course happy if we can positively affect transport and mobility in one neighbourhood in each pilot area, but we would be even happier if we could inspire many more neighbourhoods to take up our solutions and applyRead more

Summer is coming, but Cities-4-People will not go on holidays: we are busy preparing a second phase of co-creation activities in each pilot area. In August there will be Presentation Days to introduce the results from data analysis for the mobility interventions piloted locally. These will be followed by Quadruple Helix Stakeholder workshops and HackRead 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

Barton was the fastest pilot area in completing all interventions: thanks to an excellent organisation of the team and the valuable support of the Citizen Mobility Community, the first piloting phase was closed by mid-June and data analysis started immediately after. The results will be disclosed during a Presentation Day, and discussed in view ofRead more

At the end of June 2019 it was time for our consortium to meet again. After having visited Amsterdam, Budapest, Hamburg and Trikala, our next gathering took place in Oxford. A picturesque city from the 12th century, house to Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll (among others) and renowned for its highly selective university, Oxford hosted Cities-4-PeopleRead 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

Istanbul is not an easy city to live in: its size and the humongous number of inhabitants make mobility complicated, especially for vulnerable groups, such as elderly, children and people with impairments (e.g. visually impaired people, people on a wheelchair). The Citizen Mobility community in Üsküdar focused on these categories to provide some infrastructural support.Read more

After the completion of the prototyping phase, the piloting began. Implementing a pilot may sound easier than it actually is: it does not only entail actions to test the prototype in a real-life setting, but also implies substantial community engagement work to gather enough users and requires extensive data collection to measure the effects ofRead more

Another six months have gone by and several changes have happened, which we are excited about and look forward to sharing with you. In our last newsletter, we had to stop at the ideation stage: all five Cities-4-People pilot areas had developed three concepts each, but nothing practical had been done with them yet. OneRead more