Iason Sioutis, Vangelis Angelakis, Anna Antonakopoulou, Vasileios Sourlas, Ida Grundel, Tina-Simone Neset and Angelos Amditis, ICCS / Linkoping University

Overview

This paper outlines ELABORATOR's methodology for designing person-centred urban mobility interventions that contribute to climate neutrality. It combines the quadruple helix model with a meet-in-the-middle approach, treating the city as a place where citizens, public authorities, industry and research actors create value together. The process integrates co-design, co-production and co-evaluation across four connected phases. It provides cities with a shared structure for identifying local mobility gaps, implementing interventions and evaluating their effects.

Research highlights

• Set-up: Establish evaluation tools and baseline urban mobility indicators while preparing broad citizen participation.

• Discovery and Definition: Identify local mobility gaps, prioritise interventions and introduce twinning for knowledge transfer between cities.

• Implementation: Co-produce knowledge with stakeholders, apply participatory tools and organise information through digital tools and a data marketplace.

• Evaluation: Compare pre-intervention and post-intervention conditions through a before-and-after study approach.

• The methodology aims to strengthen societal relevance, solution adoption and the long-term value of interventions.

Practical relevance

The paper offers a common process that can be adapted to different city contexts while keeping participation, data and evaluation connected. It describes the methodology guiding ELABORATOR's interventions, but it does not present final city-level impact results.

Publication details

Published in Climate Crisis and Resilient Transportation Systems, CSUM 2024, Springer, 2025, pages 227-237. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-82714-3_16.