Our cities

Interventions will be demonstrated in a selection of cities across Europe

Lighthouse cities

6 cities will pilot key interventions. They will be specifically co-designed and co-created with identified vulnerable to exclusion user groups, local authorities and other relevant stakeholders.

Milan

Italy

With the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics on the horizon, the City of Milan will exploit this main event to merge the city’s expertise in street and public space design with the emerging universal design approaches. The target is a public space accessible to the broadest possible population, including vulnerable to exclusion groups. Milan’s Living Lab will aim to develop up-to-standard interventions, such as sensors along the paths and crosswalks, and redesign and dynamically allocate the public spaces to foster the mobility and safety of all possible user groups. Participatory research interventions and direct involvement with the neighbourhood communities and the vulnerable groups associations will take place to address the mobility needs of all groups. The Living Lab will be developed around the celebration areas of the Olympic sites of both Meazza Stadium (San Siro Stadium) and Piazza del Duomo, the city’s central area.

Issy-les-Moulineaux

France

Issy-les-Moulineaux, one of the economic hearts of the Paris region, is facing challenges due to heavy traffic from cars and bikes, bringing the need for increased safety and inclusivity in the city. To tackle these issues, the Issy-les-Moulineaux Living Lab will explore better ways for people and different mobility modes to share the streets, making them safer and more accommodating to all modes. By adopting a multimodal approach to mobility, the Living Lab aims to seamlessly integrate different travel modes, increasing efficiency and sustainable mobility options. Specific streets will serve as testing grounds for innovative ideas, aiming to improve safety as well as inclusivity and sustainability.

Zaragoza

Spain

Zaragoza is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. The city has an extensive network of cycling paths, several bike stops, the bicycle service “BIZIZaragoza”, and electric scooters for everyone to use on the city streets.The city’s major issue is re-assessing public space and improving accessibility and safety at the neighbourhood level. The Zaragoza Living Lab will thus be developed around facilities usually accessedby women, children, older people and people with disabilities, namely schools, senior centres, local markets, pharmacies, local health centres, and transport nodes, making them the Lab’s central locations.

Trikala

Greece

Trikala is underserved by public transport, with mobility largely depending on individual car use. The Trikala Living Lab aims to provide alternative sustainable mobility solutions for its citizens, integrate
further existing services and provide a more gender-sensitive and inclusive approach. More specifically,

The lab will focus on the following elements:

Increasing the use of bicycles instead of cars
Monitoring the usage of sustainable mobility services
Investigating the necessity for other mobility options or infrastructure
Creating a safer bike environment for cyclists
Collecting data for future urban planning of the city in terms of safety
Reducing parking violations
Allowing the Municipal police to respond in real-time to traffic violations
Creating a safer environment for pedestrians and cyclists inside the city

The areas of interest are located around key park-and-ride stations, smart parking areas, schools, bicycle
lanes, info points and crowded public places.

Copenhagen

Denmark

The Copenhagen Living Lab aims for a better understanding of vulnerable road users’ interactions and patterns to increase the efficiency of traffic management and planning. By gaining knowledge about the effects of a specific intervention, both at a macro and micro level, the ambition is to develop and apply a set of integrated indicators to enable the impact pre/post-intervention. The Copenhagen Lab will operate on a macro level by looking into behavioural, temporal, and spatial patterns in the centre of Copenhagen and at a micro level with near encounters in specific intersections and shared spaces. Copenhagen aims to be CO2 neutral by 2025, and this knowledge is sought to be supplemented through the project to achieve a completely innovative and different approach to city planning and traffic management.

Helsinki

Finland

In Helsinki, the number of deaths and injuries among pedestrians and cyclists, although not high compared to many other European cities, remains a cause for concern. The relevance of serious injuries
is rising in urban areas, and their societal costs are substantial. Young people figure highly in accident analyses, and a significant challenge lies in the lack of data on exactly where accidents are taking place.
Due to larger traffic density, more crashes may occur in the city’s central area. The Living Lab will focus on the city centre and the newly developed Jätkäsaari district.

The Helsinki Living Lab will focus on testing new solutions for collecting, visualising and analysing crash data using 3D models and the Helsinki Digital Twin. Particular attention will be paid to accidents
involving shared electric scooters and bicycles. The city’s road safety measures and guidelines for light electric vehicle service providers can be influenced by better data. The Living lab will also pay attention
to perceived safety in traffic by experimenting with camera-based detection at accident-prone intersections and real-time warnings of approaching vehicles and improving existing tools, such as
machine vision-based tools. The focus will be on vulnerable road users, but interventions will contribute to increased safety for all.

Follower cities

6 cities will learn and exchange with the Lighthouse cities to plan and implement their own sustainable solutions.

With a knowledge-sharing twinning approach to improve long-term sustainability, facilitating replication, uptake, and capacity building between the cities, the Lighthouse and Followers cities will work together in a knowledge hub within the project duration and beyond.

Velenje

Slovenia

The Velenje Living Lab aims to increase the share of sustainable micro-mobility users through interventions aimed at increasing safety, improving air quality, decreasing health-related issues and
reducing the accompanying social and health costs. It will focus on monitoring and evaluating behavioural changes in urban micro-mobility users, with a particular focus on secondary/high schooling students: the aim is to provide them with the required infrastructure, as well as knowledge and awareness regarding their usage of sustainable means of mobility and its impact on the environment.

This will be achieved by implementing a city-wide network of sensory tools and devices to monitor the intervention’s effects. The intervention itself is implementing a micro-mobility hub located in the heart of the educational area, along with awareness-raising activities aimed at the target demographic. The sensory toolkits will provide the Living Lab with comprehensive datasets that will be used to design and
implement actionable policies that will have a profound impact on the environment, governance and general society.

Split

Croatia

Split is the second-largest city in Croatia and the largest on the Croatian coast. It serves as an intraregional transport hub and is a popular tourist destination. In 2023, Split adopted a new development strategy aligned with the principles of Carbon Neutrality and Mission Cities, focusing on increasing energy efficiency and transitioning towards clean energy.

The city will identify the most important and heavily used corridors, as well as the most unsafe locations, and will implement video surveillance systems to enforce penalties for the misuse of mobility infrastructure with shared use. The expected impact of this Living Lab will be a decrease in CO2 emissions, an increase in safety, the improvement of public spaces, and an enhancement of the
serviceability and availability of public transport.

The Living Lab intervention will be executed in coordination with our academic partner, the Faculty of Traffic Science, who will assist the city in selecting locations, installing monitoring equipment, and assessing the interventions.

Krusevac

Serbia

In line with the city’s commitment to fostering an inclusive and sustainable urban environment, Krusevac is dedicated to transforming itself into a living lab where innovative solutions redefine urban mobility and accessibility. The city’s central challenges lie in mitigating daily traffic congestion.

To address these issues comprehensively, Krusevac is embarking on an integrated approach that encompasses the redesign of public space, focusing on enhancing the mobility conditions for pedestrians, cyclists, and micro-mobility users. As part of this initiative, a micro-mobility hub will be established within the newly designed streets. Additionally, public transportation improvements, including introducing vehicle arrival notifications at stops, will be made.

To empower residents and visitors with real-time information on public transport and travel planning, Krusevac will develop a mobile application. Furthermore, buses will be equipped with GPS tracking and
passenger counters, enabling more efficient service. Information at bus stops will also be enhanced to provide a better overall transport experience.

Ioannina

Greece

Ioannina is Epirus's capital and largest city, a region in the northwest of Greece. Ioannina is an important tourist destination all year round, and the city' biggest challenge is the permanent flow of traffic to and
from the Epirus region and commuters from the city's suburbs using mainly their private cars.

The Ioannina Living Lab will test interventions on 2 high-traffic central streets to provide alternative ways of moving citizens to the city centre. These streets account for 67% of the total traffic flow and
approximately 61% of traffic crashes, with the majority occurring in locations defined as areas of iinterest. Both streets are characterised by intersections without traffic lights and without sufficient
visibility for the drivers. The Living Lab will be central for Ioannina to meet its goal of reducing CO2 emissions by at least 40% by 2030 (long-term target), with a part referring to transportation emissions.

Liberec

Czech Republic

Liberec is the 5th biggest city in Czechia, located near Poland and Germany, surrounded by forests and mountains. Furthermore, Liberec is the only Czech city committed to being climate-neutral by 2030. The
Living Lab aims to provide new and sustainable solutions for its citizens with a different approach to municipal transport.

The city of Liberec aims to create new solutions, including successful regulation and adequate citizen participation, resident parking facilities connected to an increased service capacity for electromobility
and alternative transport in housing estates, and future autonomous operation. With the use of ITS/C-ITS systems and other measures, the city strives for a pilot example of a smart, effective, and replicable
solution to resident parking issues and electromobility development. The impact of this Living Lab will result in a decrease in CO 2 emissions, an increase in safety, an improvement of public space, and an increase in serviceability and availability of public transport.

Lund

Sweden

The Lund Living Lab will develop and test new ways of measuring real-time traffic data to create a better understanding of all type of transports and their interplay. Lund will experiment with transforming city streets during different time periods into walking and cycling areas and analyse the effects. Lund will also follow the other project cities and prepare for replicating selected interventions.

Lund will also deploy early versions of the adapted common data platform that will serve the whole Elaborator project developed by Sensative for data sharing. The platform is already up and running as a part of Lund OpenSensoring City, an Open IoT testbed established in 2017 that has been continuously upgraded with new functionalities.