Mobility planet

Delivering goods in Zaragoza’s historic city centre is not always straightforward. Narrow streets, pedestrianised areas and limited space for loading and unloading make everyday deliveries a challenge. But what if goods could be brought closer to their destinations without relying on conventional delivery vans? Zaragoza is exploring exactly that, turning an underused municipal market into a neighb...

Barcelona’s dense, mixed-use neighbourhoods create intense competition for limited kerbside space. Delivery vehicles must share the street with residents, taxis, ride-hailing services, micromobility and other users, while static loading and unloading zones often struggle to respond to changing demand. Unauthorised parking, unpredictable stopping times and double-parking further reduce the effectiv...

When a crisis disrupts roads, communications and essential services, urban logistics becomes much more than a question of efficiency or cost. It becomes essential to getting food, equipment and other critical supplies to the people who need them most.  Welcome to the second episode of the DISCO Podcast Series! In this episode, Katy and Thato look at the logistics response to the DANA floods t...

Making Space for Deliveries: Rethinking the Curb in Padua   Loading and unloading areas are essential for urban logistics, but they compete with many other uses of public space. In dense and historic cities, finding suitable space for deliveries is becoming increasingly difficult. Welcome to the first episode of the DISCO Podcast Series! As part of the DISCO project, this series shares practi...

Das Horizont-2020-Projekt ReVeAL (2019-2022) - Regulating Vehicle Access for Improved Liveability - wurde initiiert, um UVARs (Urban Vehicle Access Regulations) in die Standardpalette der städtischen Mobilitätskonzepte in europäischen Städten aufzunehmen. ReVeAL kombinierte Fallstudienforschung mit praktischer UVAR-Umsetzung in sechs Pilotstädten und erstellte ein Toolkit und Empfehlungen zur Unte...

Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning, or SUMP in short, helps to shape cities today for the mobility trends of tomorrow. What sounds great for large cities can easily be dismissed for small ones or towns. That's where the SUMP Guidelines for Small Cities come into play.

Bonnie and Anouchka are currently working on a project for urban vehicle access regulations. Basically, that means ways to reduce car access to parts of cities to make them cleaner, safer and more attractive for people. But how do we make sure that hybrid cars are is in electric mode inside the zero-emission zone? That’s when geofencing comes into play.

Bringing together the two very different scales – the city-wide level needed for integrated planning and the people-oriented on-the-ground neighbourhood level – is a tricky balance of communication, trust and expectation management. Let's discuss!

In the final episode of the GECKO project, we're talking about the possible conflicts between sectors in the context of regulating new mobility, especially the private and the public sector.

With all the technology involved in new mobility, data plays a big role. In fact, data has been referred to as “the new oil”. But while oil resources are running out, the amount of data is increasing exponentially. The question is, what can we do with it? How do we make good use of it? And how can we protect our personal data? Let's find out in this month's episode of Mobility Planet.

In our first episode, we discussed the difficulties that decision makers encounter when trying to regulate new mobility. In this episode, we’re talking about how much regulation is actually needed. Who’s responsible for setting the rules? What kind of rules should they be? To what extent can we let the market set its own rules? And what about enforcing the rules? Do we need the “new mobility...

This is the first in a series of four podcasts looking at various aspects of new mobility and how to regulate it.   What are the main challenges from a policymaker’s perspective? How can the public sector ensure that regulations are flexible enough to take in new forms of mobility? How can a company whose business models depends on certain regulations future-proof themselves to potential chan...

Cars have occupied public space for a long time, benefitting only the owners. But public space should be for everyone, right?