The ShareDiMobiHub consortium is made up of 13 partners and 4 sub partners from five different countries in the North Sea Region. Cities, regions, research institutes and network organizations, all working together to make urban mobility more sustainable and accessible through shared mobility hubs.
The province of Utrecht is the Lead Partner. The province will contribute to this project mainly in Work Package 2: Upscaling shared mobility hubs. As a regional governmental organization, the task is to connect and support municipalities. Currently, shared mobility initiatives arise on local (municipal) scale without much collaboration. Within this project, the aim is to create insights on what is happening within the region by collecting, organizing, and analyzing data on shared mobility. In doing so, the province of Utrecht will try to discover where the potential is for connecting different initiatives to create a regional shared mobility system. This will result in a blueprint on how to scale up shared mobility initiatives, which can be used as a guideline by other cities or regions. These studies will be performed in collaboration with the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht.
Contact: Wouter Slob - Wouter.slob@provincie-utrecht.nl
The Capital Region is a public authority responsible, among other things, for the region's hospitals and regional public transport. The Capital Region of Denmark supports a national reduction of CO2 emissions by 70% by 2030 and has a goal to shift 20% of total trips to cycling or public transport - including carpooling and sharing services by 2035. To reach this goal, the Capital Region of Denmark focuses on 5 strategic themes in the Regional Traffic and Mobility Plan to create a coherent, reliable, effective, and green mobility system before 2035, among these themes are 'attractive shared mobility and Nodes that create coherence'.
The Capital Region of Denmark is a follower partner and aims to gather knowledge to work with mobility hubs, MaaS and shared mobility solutions in a more strategic perspective. Based on experiences and learnings from the other partners implementing upscaling action plans and the pilots deployed in the project, the Capital Region of Denmark will develop and adopt an upscaling strategy to roll out shared mobility hubs in the Region and to plan the implementation of shared mobility hubs. In relation to the upscaling plan we will develop a digitization plan describing the digital infrastructure of the hubs, this includes descriptions of data sharing, data standards etc.
Contact: Kia Madsen - Kia.madsen@regionh.dk
From the experience of the eHUBS project, Leuven wants to share tips and tricks on the different aspects with partner cities and third parties. Leuven wants to set up tests within the WP Pilots to encourage specific disadvantaged groups to use e-shared mobility in order to alleviate transport poverty. Leuven will also look for partnerships with companies in Leuven to make complementary use of shared mobility hubs. Leuven will try out these mobility solutions and share these experiences within the consortium. Within the WP Upscaling, Leuven will implement, evaluate and share lessons learned on the basis of two action plans to be developed, focusing mainly on nudging and digitalization.
Contact: Hilke Evenepoel - Hilke.evenepoel@leuven.be
The city of Rotterdam is the second largest in the Netherlands and is known for its port, which is one of the largest in the world. The City of Rotterdam has a vision of becoming a sustainable and resilient city that is economically strong and socially inclusive. To achieve this, it has developed a number of initiatives, such as the Rotterdam Climate Initiative, which aims to reduce the city's carbon footprint and increase the use of renewable energy. The City of Rotterdam is also committed to promoting innovation and entrepreneurship. It has established a number of innovation hubs, such as the Rotterdam Science Tower, which provides space and support for start-ups and innovative businesses. Overall, the City of Rotterdam is a dynamic and forward-thinking organization that is committed to improving the lives of its citizens and making the city a better place to live, work, and visit.
The City of Rotterdam has a comprehensive mobility policy aimed at making the city more accessible, sustainable, and livable. One of the key strategies of Rotterdam's mobility policy is to encourage the use of public transport, cycling, and walking. The city has invested in a high-quality public transport system that includes buses, trams, and metro lines and all kinds of shared mobility, making it easier for people to get around without using their own cars. In addition, Rotterdam has developed an extensive network of cycling infrastructure, including dedicated cycle lanes, bike parking facilities, and bike sharing schemes. Another important element of Rotterdam's mobility policy is to promote electric and hybrid vehicles. The city has introduced a range of incentives to encourage people to switch to electric or hybrid cars, such as tax breaks and free parking. Rotterdam has also established an extensive network of electric vehicle charging points throughout the city. In addition, Rotterdam is committed to promoting sustainable freight transport, with implementation of a zero-emission zone. Overall, Rotterdam's mobility policy is focused on creating a more sustainable, accessible, and livable city. By promoting sustainable transportation modes Rotterdam is taking significant steps towards achieving its goal of becoming a more sustainable and resilient city.
Rotterdam will focus on how to best engage specific target groups. In Europe and in the Netherlands most users of shared mobility are male, young, higher educated and with a higher spending. That group adopts an innovation after the early adopters. This early majority group are distinguished from the early adopters by their own characteristics and values. We would like to know more about their drivers and barriers which we are going to test in Rotterdam. We would like to learn and share knowledge with WP Upscaling and disseminate knowledge with other public organizations, such as the cities in our Metropolitan Region Rotterdam, The Hague.
Contact: Richard Van der Wulp - r.vanderwulp@rotterdam.nl
The city of Amsterdam has the goal to be a completely emission-free city in 2030, with strict restriction per 2025 already for logistics transport. Furthermore Amsterdam wants less (parked) cars and invests in alternative and active mobility. Recently it adapted a vision on hubs (Hubsvisie Amsterdam). The plans gives way to research, pilot and scale up with neighbourhoodhubs and moreover learn how to use and organize hubs. Besides the hubsvision we have a shared mobility policy for bicycles, mopeds and cars. There are 3 local stationsbased bicycles providers, 100 cargobikes, 700 floating mopeds, 1,200 stationsbased cars and 1300 free-floating cars. Furthermore, we are lead partner in the eHUBS project and want to start piloting with shared mobility in (underground) car and bike parkinggarages.
Amsterdam will focus on the upscaling of neighborhood hubs and the goal to create a citywide and regional network of hubs. We have a specific interest in areas of the city which are:
- Very busy, have a demand for space and therefore require more regulation to accommodate shared mobility and
- Not yet served with shared mobility to reach new target groups and make shared mobility available for everybody.
Apart from the upscaling we focus on the data infrastructure and standardisation efforts which is necessary for a good monitoring system on a tactical and strategic level. On digital level we aim to obtain a level 4 MaaS integration. Besides these points, we would like to learn from the other partners on the other thematic areas, strategies and pilots.
Contact: Auke Adema
Vestfold and Telemark County is the government organisation at a regional level, with responsibilities in areas such as public transport, county roads, land use planning. The region has 420 000 inhabitants and is located in the eastern part of Norway, south of the Oslo-region. The county is working with the municipalities and national road authorities in the urban areas og Grenland (Porsgrunn and Skien) and Tønsberg to promote a sustainable urban development and transport and are adopting plans and measures to reach the “Zero-Growth Goal”, i.e., no growth in transportation by private vehicles. For the purposes of the ShareDiMobiHub project, VTFK has established a local partnership with the municipalities and the national road authority to support the launch of two pilots to promote shared mobility in Grenland and Tønsberg. VTFK is the leader of the local partnership with local sub partners.
In Grenland VTFK will launch an eBike-pilot as part of the public transport. VTFK will develop its ticketing products and integrate and add modes into its “digital mobility hub” app. VTFK is interested in developing its analyses and use of mobility data and define a role in the MaaS-ecosystem. VTFK is supporting the mobility hubs-pilot in Tønsberg, led by the municipality. The VTFK and local partnership will use a mix of policies to support the piloting activities.
Contact: Linda Carolina Enhmark - linda.ehnmark@vtfk.no
The National Public Road Authority (NPRA) is an administrative body and a provider of national public services, and a subordinate to the Ministry of Transport and Communications in Norway. The NPRA is the road authority for national roads, and is responsible for managing, researching, planning, building, operating and maintaining national roads. The NPRA has the authoritative responsibility within ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) for the development of a future oriented comprehensive and coherent road transport system. In certain fields the NPRA has the authority to adopt regulations and specify standard requirements for all public roads (national roads, county roads and municipal roads). NPRA mission is to develop and facilitate a comprehensive and coherent future-oriented transport system for the entire country, promoting mobility and traffic flow, reducing transport accidents and contributing to the desired transition into a low-emission society.
NPRA's role in the project is to:
- Contribute to interoperability of the solutions in the project.
- Contribute to developing solutions according to national goals: cost efficient, sustainable, safe and predictable accessibility is a basic premise in the project development.
- Develop national regulations as a consequence of the project.
- In cooperation with all the partners understand, plan for, build, operate and maintain a future Mobility as a service solutions that are efficient, and shared across road infrastructure owner (emphasis on interoperability).
Contact: Kjersti Hovemoen Myhre
Skien municipality has 55 900 inhabitants. The municipality has approximately 4000 employees who delivers services related to healthcare, kindergardens, education, social services, municipal roads, water and sewerage regulation and cultural activities. Skien municipality is a partner of a binding cooperation between the local, regional and national levels, “Bypakke Grenland”, to achieve the “Zero-Growth Goal”, meaning that any growth in passenger transport shall be absorbed by public transport, cycling and walking.
Skien municipality (sub partner) is part of the e-bike project of the regional authorities of Vestfold and Telemark (partner). Skien is the planning authority and will play a role as a host and enabler of the physical mobility hubs. Skien and Porsgrunn has developed a local regulation on micromobility, and will give a license to 3 micromobility providers to offer services in 2023. Skien will use the cooperation in the local partnership “Bypakke Grenland” and broad policy package in order to make shared mobility a success.
Contact: Turid Draugedalen - turid.draugedalen@skien.kommune.no
The municipality of Porsgrunn is part of a binding, multi-level governmental cooperation - “Bypakke Grenland”, with “Zero-Growth Goal” as a basis, meaning that any growth in passenger transport shall be absorbed by public transport, cycling and walking. Norway’s Zero-Growth Goal provides the framework and establishes broad “policy packages” for land-use and transport policy in large urban areas. Urban Growth Agreements (UGA) are the main tool for achieving the Zero-Growth Goal. Grenland has had an agreement with the state since 2015 and will start negotiations to obtain an UGA. Porsgrunn has had city bikes since 2006, but the number and locations of hubs, have been gradually reduced. For the last three years there has been a service of 20 electric city bikes available, which has been popular with citizens.
Subpartner to VTFK. Porsgrunn participates in WP Pilots and WP Upscaling. VTFK - as part of Bypakke Grenland - will pilot and scale up an e-bike offer. Porsgrunn is part of the project and will facilitate as a local plan authority and responsible for maintenance and services of the road infrastructure. Porsgrunn is currently developing a local regulation on electric micromobility, and intends to give licenses to 1-3 micromobility providers. The focus will be how shared mobility can work in a small and medium sized urban area, and how it can contribute to the Zero-Growth Goal. In addition, how to get synergy between the public e-bikes and micromobility offer. Bypakke Grenland will use the broad policy package in order to make the shared mobility a success, which is experience that Porsgrunn can bring to the project.
Contact: Lars Martin Sørli - lars.martin.sorli@porsgrunn.kommune.no
Tønsberg kommune is a municipality with approx. 54.000 inhabitants. There are local and regional plans for spatial development and transport which set goals of a green transition and sustainable growth. Tønsberg is part of “Bypakke Tønsberg-regionen”; which is a multi-level governmental cooperation to achieve the “Zero-Growth Goal”. Bypakke Tønsberg is planning measures to this aim, and to get in a position for a future binding agreement with the government (similar to the one in Grenland). The municipality has adopted a plan for sustainable mobility (2021) with local measures. Shared mobility and the establishment of one or several mobility hubs is identified as an action point. Tønsberg has piloted a fleet of 100 electric kick-bikes in the city center together with a local, micro-mobility provider (not organised as hubs). Tønsberg is developing on a local regulation on electric micromobility, and is planning to issue a number of license agreements.
Sub partner to VTFK. Tønsberg has several mobility measures to be carried through in the period 2022-2026, relevant to the Interreg-project. Tønsberg together with VTFK is cooperating on a feasibility study and has plans to pilot (from autumn 2022) one or several mobility hubs. As part of a pilot of one or several mobility hubs, Tønsberg will engage in a dialogue with private mobility providers and other stakeholders, to define what mobility hubs mean for an urban area. The budget for the pilot is covered by different funds. Costs for ShareDiMobiHub are only focused on knowledge exchange, data analysis and to draft the upscaling plan. Tønsberg is the planning authority and host, and will be pivotal in identifying and planning locations for mobility hubs, engage with the relevant actors to provide content and services, and contributing to the smooth operation and mantenance of the mobility hubs.
Contact: Emilie Lassen Bue
Vervoerregio Amsterdam is the Transport Authority for the Amsterdam region. Being responsible for Public Transport only -in the strict Dutch juridical sense just being Bus, Tram, Metro, Train and Ferry- the Executive Committee has announced a desire to provide Public Mobility. Being PT combined with flexible systems and Shared Mobility. Currently, shared mobility is neither being proved nor governed on a regional scale, rendering it largely unpractical for most common regional commutes. Within this project, Vervoerregio aims to provide clarity on which governing model suits best to start a tendering/licensing process for a regional shared mobility system. Before starting this process, a lot of questions need to be addressed. We want to share our insights and experiences.
Contact: Mirjam de Keizer – m.dekeizer@vervoerregio.nl
HAW's Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” supports fundamental and applied research on sustainable development and climate issues, especially by conducting practice-oriented research projects. It contributes to knowledge and technology transfer at the national and international levels. The Centre is involved in international initiatives (e.g. the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme, the Baltic University Programme) and representation of HAW Hamburg in relevant national and international committees.
HAW will develop and deploy a digital participatory platform (DPP) to capture and disseminate the information from the partners. This will not only serve the purpose of demonstrating a realistic potential for online and offline co-production between the partners, but also explore their real-world applications. The digitalization of participation is aimed at increasing the transparency and legitimacy of the project applications and usefulness of the results by a greater partners and stakeholders' engagement.
Contact: Franziska Wolf - Franziska.wolf@haw-hamburg.de
The Department of Transport and Regional Economics (TPR) at the University of Antwerp is a research organization delivering, among others, strategic and model-based analyses, operational research, forecasting and simulations in transport economics, logistics and regional economics. We successfully completed European projects such as CLUSTER 2.0, NOVIMAR and E-HUBS. We delivered the study “How to make the SNCB future-proof” for the Belgian regional operator SNCB (H2020) and we participate in the study of Transport Oriented Development (TOD) for Inclusive and Sustainable Rural-Urban regions (H2020).
Within ShareDiMobiHubs, TPR will help to build strategies and action plans for the pilot cities, as well as measure the impact of the local solutions. Measuring the impact of the pilots requires first a clear definition of the objectives. These objectives can include the decrease of carbon emissions, the increase in accessibility, or others. Next, we look how these objectives can be quantified, for example by looking at the number of trips with shared mobility services. In addition, we will support upscaling activities by providing guidance, roadmaps and strategies for cities to track changes and set up long-term objectives. At the end of the project, TPR will consolidate the main findings in terms of best practices and jointly developed action plans resulting from both pilots and upscaling activities.
Contact: Joris Beckers - joris.beckers@uantwerpen.be
The HU is a large Education and Research Institute in the Utrecht region. The expertise of HU is clustered in four thematic fields: ‘sustainable together’, ‘healthy together’, ‘learning together’, and ‘digital together’. 38 different research units cover these four thematic fields. We primarily focus on sustainability in a physical sense. For us, it is about the ecological footprint. We are committed to reducing the health and welfare problems of people in the region, increasing their self-reliance and improving their lifestyle and social and physical safety. The quality of education is crucial for our well-being and for the continuity of our strong, regional knowledge society. Digitalisation affects all areas of our lives: living, working and how we interact with each other.
The Centre of Expertise Smart Sustainable Cities, part of the HU, is a platform where organisations, local and regional authorities and knowledge institutes work together to realize a sustainable, smart and healthy city. With our team we are the driving force for activities in which professionals, researchers, teachers and students with different areas of expertise work together. The starting point here is applicable expertise with added value for practice, education and research. We do this along the following program lines: 'Healthy Areas, Healthy Buildings', 'Energy Neutral and Circular Areas', 'Transition Processes' and 'Smart Urban Mobility'. The Centre creates a network of companies and organizations in the region. They conduct innovative research, develop new businesses through innovations and ensure that (future) professionals are better trained for the labor market.
Contac: Karla Münzel - Karla.munzel@hu.nl
Mpact was founded in 1975 as a non-profit organization with the aim of developing efficient and accessible mobility for everyone. Our ambition is to do more with less: We strive for better energy efficiency, more inclusion and social cohesion, and less traffic jams, emissions, costs,... We do this by:
- Developing our own services, such as Carpool for home-work trips, the MobiCalendar-app to manage transport behavior, the CozyWheels-platform for vehicle sharing and the Mobitwin volunteer service that provides a solution for less mobile citizens.
- Innovating through participation in European (research) projects that have as a goal to make mobility as efficient, sustainable and accessible as possible. We are among others project partners in the eHUBS and SmartHubs projects.
- Inspiring governments and the broader public through webinars on shared mobility - the Mpact Sessions and non-conventional conferences such as Shared Mobility Rocks.
We will be using the expertise and insights from our participation in Interreg, Horizon 2020 and JPI Urban Europe projects to contribute to ShareDiMobiHubs. As a project partner, we will assist the cities and regions that aim to develop mobility hubs or that will expand the existing network as follows:
- Provide support and disseminate knowledge regarding the integration of transport operators into data standards or specifications, such as the TOMP-API or a toolkit like CDS-M;
- Organize and contribute to training sessions similar to the eHUBS-Academies and disseminate best practices;
- Support the pilot regions in their communication efforts;
- Analyze the impact of the developments of mobility hubs, for instance on the neighborhood and on the people using mobility hubs;
- Assist cities and regions that want to encourage disadvantaged groups to make use of shared and sustainable mobility.
By sharing its expertise on mobility hubs and shared mobility, as well as by assisting the regional project partners of ShareDiMobiHub, Mpact will contribute to more efficient and cleaner mobility in the North Sea area.
Contact: Tjalle Groen
Autodelen.net is the Carsharing network in Belgium. They promote a sustainable society in which car use becomes more important than car ownership. The goal is to meet everyone's mobility needs efficiently with a minimum of space occupation, optimum use of raw materials and a positive impact on the quality of our living environment.
Autodelen.net is one of the inventors of the Flemish concept of ‘mobipunten’. As a network organization, they have strong connections with important stakeholders such as operators, (local) governments and other intermediary partners. Furthermore, they have plenty of experience in Interreg projects and were previously partner in Share North, ART-forum and eHUBS.
Within the ShareDiMobiHub project Autodelen.net will focus on dissemination, communication, nudging and research.
Their main activities are:
- Creating communication, policy and dissemination tools to increase the usage of shared mobility in the North Sea Region.
- Implementing and further developing TOMP-API and CDS-M standard in Belgium together with shared mobility providers.
- Dissemination activities such as a masterclass, academy and workshop for relevant stakeholders.
- Research on the impact of shared mobility (hubs) in Belgium.
Contact: Bram Seeuws - bram@autodelen.net
POLIS is a network of 100 cities and regions for transport innovation, accessing local transport professionals looking into the ShareDiMobiHub issues. POLIS has experience and capacity in project communication (strategy as well as tool development), stakeholder outreach and capacity building. POLIS has conducted these activities in projects related to shared mobility and digital mobility services in the past in INTERREG as well as in R&D FP project (e.g., MOBIDATALAB, eHUBS, MOBI-MIX, GECKO, MOMENTUM, …). POLIS has an active working group on governance of new mobility services and on ITS, providing access to state-of-the-art experiences in cities, and an understanding of policy drivers and barriers in this field. POLIS has a specific activity on shared mobility data standardization processes and works with its members and associate members (e.g., OMF, MobilityData) to advance shared digitally supported mobility. The project will benefit from POLIS’ own communication channels/events.
POLIS will take a leading role in the training, communication and dissemination work of the project, mainly focused on the POLIS members that are located in the North Sea Region. POLIS will develop the strategy for these activities, as well as the concrete tools and channels to bring the strategy in operation. POLIS will take part in establishing a needs assessment of cities and operators. POLIS will contribute to ShareDiMobiHub's Online learning platform. The network will also liaise with ongoing initiatives, such as the BENELUX MaaS pilot, MDS/TOMP.api etc., and will position ShareDIMobiHub at key conferences and events in the field.
Contact: Daniel Herrera - DHerrera@polisnetwork.eu
