The main objective is to assess if a co-designed, user-centric development can enable mobility hubs to act as a game changer towards inclusive sustainable urban mobility and accessibility. SmartHubs will develop and test novel participatory and impact assessment tools in living labs in Brussels, Rotterdam-the Hague metropolitan region, Munich, Vienna and Istanbul. SmartHubs has 30 project partners from 6 countries in Europe.
Mind the Gap: Europe’s Mobility Hub Challenge – read the article from the interview with project coordinator Karst T Geurs.
Duration: 2021-2024
Contact: Prof. dr. Karst T Geurs, University of Twente
E-mail: k.t.geurs@utwente.nl
Budget: €2,142,633
Partners: Taxistop Asbl – Wien 3420 aspern Development AG –Aspern Mobility Lab – UPS Germany – HTM Personenvervoer – RET – NS Stations – Lojika Field Labs – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences – TU Wien – Transport System Planning – TU Wien – Multidisciplinary Design and User Research – Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region (VOR) GmbH/ITS Vienna Region – Federal Government of Lower Austria – Stadt-Umland-Management Wien/NÖ – Mobility Lab Graz – Vrije Universiteit Brussel – Service public régional de Bruxelles – Anderlecht Municipality – University of Munster – Technical University of Munich – City of Munich – Munich Public Transport Association –University of Bologna – Municipality of The Hague – Municipality of Rotterdam – Metropolitan Region Rotterdam the Hague – CROW – Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality – University of Twente – MO.Point
Website: https://www.smartmobilityhubs.eu/
Call: ENUAC
Outputs
Final report: Making mobility hubs smarter 10 recommendations for practitioners & policy makers
SmartHubs Tools
Accessibility Tool The tool presents results in the form of a map showing the areas accessible from the given locations and a summary table of the amenities that can be reached from each point. Users also have the opportunity to download the geospatial data and process it further.
Co-design Tool The tool includes a set of gaming materials and a guiding handbook to enable living labs to design tailored Design Games.
Resilience Tool The too is designed to investigate the impact of mobility hubs on urban transport resilience
Appraisal Tool The tool visualises the relevance of each option of a mobility hub for the stakeholders involved
in the process, on the basis of stated criteria as well as their importance. The tool can also show the positive and the negative impacts of the different options.