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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

Here’s a selection of mobility-related events you should look out for in the second half of 2019 (and if you like to organise things early on, we also included a big one in the first half of 2020): High-Level Conference “Towards a more inclusive and diverse transport sector” on 26 September 2019 in Brussels – aRead 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

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

Sorry, this entry is only available in German. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. In the District of Altona, piloting is about to start and you can contribute to it once again. Place a marker atRead more

OpenGovIntelligence, a Horizon2020 project focused on co-creating applications of Linked Open Statistical Data, held its final project conference on November, 22nd in Delft. The event had a diverse set of presentations throughout the day from the OpenGovIntelligence project, students of TUDelft, and guests from other projects involving co-creation and governmental openness. The first half ofRead more

The calendar for 2019 is already filling up, so here’s a selection of mobility-related events you should look out for: URBAN FUTURE global conference from 22 May in Oslo – an exchange on sustainability and urban planning Changing Cities conference from 24 June in Chania, Creete,– a (smart) discussion on smart cities, smart environment, smartRead more