Co-creating sustainable urban planning and mobility interventions in the city of Trikala

Abstract

In recent years, the European Union has been promoting social innovation and new business models to support the long-term transition towards low-emission, sustainable urban development. To this end, a demand-driven approach is seen as key to enhancing the wealth of sustainable urban planning and mobility solutions, increasing their relevance and responsiveness to real life challenges, saving public Research & Development investment resources and most importantly, nurturing the uptake of those solutions by their end users. In addition, cities are seen as ideal places of experimentation because they accumulate a wealth of activities and stakeholders, as well as the complex networks and transactions among those. This paper presents results from the Horizon2020 Research and Innovation Project “Cities-4-People”, financed under the ‘Smart, green and integrated transport’ part of the Horizon2020 Work Programme of 2016 - 2017, topic “New ways of supporting development and implementation of neighbourhood-level and urban-district-level transport innovations” (MG-4.5-2016). More particularly, in this paper we present the methodology, results and conclusions for the co-creation of sustainable urban planning and mobility solutions in the city of Trikala. This phase of the project took place during the period April 2018 – September 2018 and was administered by the Trikala project team of the Cities-4-People consortium (Q-Plan International and E-Trikala).