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As every autumn, stakeholders who are active in the field of mobility gathered to participate in the Civitas Forum, one of the main annual events about cities, transport and mobility. As every year, the Forum was held in a relatively small city which had been selected based on its advancement in terms of sustainability, inclusiveRead more

Between 19-21 September 2018, hundreds of people with different backgrounds will meet in Umeå, up North in Sweden, to discuss how transportation and mobility services can be environmentally friendly, inclusive, efficient and user-centred. This is an annual event, the CIVITAS Forum Conference, which regularly attracts policy makers, academics, mobility professionals, municipal employees, and project representativesRead more

You may have missed the press release, but last June, 8th our partner from Trikala, E-trikala S.A., participated in the “Major Cities of Europe” conference in Leipzig and presented the Cities-4-People project to the public that attended the event. The organisation “Major Cities of Europe – IT Users Group” is composed of leading experts ofRead more

Our Hamburg team decided to participate in this year’s edition of the Altonale in order to widen the Citizen Mobility Community, leveraging a festival that takes place in the centre of Altona, and generate publicity for the project. Ok, but… what is the Altonale? Altonale is the Northern Germany’s biggest cultural festival which is organisedRead more

60 participants attended the Presentation Day in Barton (Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK): a success! They discussed about the services offered by the Demand-Responsive Bus, which became operational last Monday and gathered ideas focusing on overcoming barriers to the usage of the service. Whereas the main target users are considered the elderly and people with disabilities, itRead more

Friday, 29 June 2018, Trikala will host the Hackday, a half-day event to assess the mobility ideas collected so far, rank them and focus on the 10 most promising ones. The ideas gathered by the local team focus primarily on improving the current traffic situation in the central square of Trikala: creating new parking places,Read more

Our first project videos have been released! You should make sure to have a look at our promotional video and share it with your friends and acquaintances: it’s only 40 seconds, the project in a nutshell. If you want to know more about the pilots, see the first one of a series: our case inRead more

Presentation Days and Hackdays represent two crucial days for each of our five pilot areas. They are meant to involve participants in a discussion that first aims to gather ideas about possible mobility solutions to the already identified challenges; then narrow down the ideas to more specific concepts and select ten promising ones. Although theRead more

Almost as a celebration for Cities-4-People first birthday, between March and May we had five different events which inaugurated the Citizen Mobility Labs in our five pilot areas: Hamburg-Altona, Oxford-Barton, Trikala, Istanbul-Uskudar, and Budapest. The five Citizen Mobility Labs are inspired to the successful paradigm of the Amsterdam Smart Citizens Lab: they are inclusive, accessible, welcomingRead more

One week ago we were having our third consortium meeting in Hamburg, in the district of Altona in order to assess the status of the project, reflect back on the previous semester and look ahead for what is coming up. We started on Tuesday afternoon (29 May 2018) and finished with the lunch of ThursdayRead more