HUPMOBILE

The HUPMOBILE project provided city authorities, infrastructure operators and transport providers with tools for holistic sustainable urban mobility planning.

Project summary

Due to differences in organising public transportation, history of city- and port planning, and path-dependency in the development of transportation infrastructure, cities in the Baltic Sea region face a variety of challenges in their urban mobility solutions. There are regional and transnational differences, as well as different perspectives taken by different stakeholders, often neglecting the larger view in sustainable urban mobility. For instance, commercial companies assess their local production logistics strongly differently from city planners who assess the needs of urban logistics. In addition, global trade is affecting the transportation flows in Europe, challenging the administrative borders of the cities.

Integrated approach

The HUPMOBILE’s objective is to provide a holistic approach to sustainable mobility solutions in cities and their perimeters. The project helped the city authorities, infrastructure operators and transport providers assess and integrate innovative mobility options into their mobility management plans and policies, e.g. concerning production and urban logistics, the use of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) solutions, and multimodality in urban transport.

Budgets

HUPMOBILE
in numbers

1.96

Million

Total
1.53

Million

Erdf
0.00

Million

Eni + Russia
0.00

Million

Norway

Achievements

The HUPMOBILE framework

The project contributed to a sustainable change of urban mobility by developing a comprehensive online framework that encompasses access to all the HUPMOBILE tools, including a starting questionnaire. Based on the user’s input to the starting questionnaire, the user will be guided to the appropriate selection of tools developed in the HUPMOBILE project. The online policy guideline tool gives fast access to the developed tools for the right target groups. It explains how those can be used in a supportive way to improve the sustainability of existing mobility solutions.

The framework links together separate tools (available separately on the project’s homepage), like self-assessment for the sustainability of the transport system, interactive map of the transport solutions, best practices for employers to support the use of public transport, simulation models etc. The framework empowers different stakeholders and city-planners developing sustainable mobility in their region by guiding them through these various tools and fostering their more active collaboration among each other.

All tools developed by the project can be found here, https://www.hupmobile-project.eu/materials/tools

The first ITS-BSR network

The Hupmobile project has built cross-sectoral competence networks to support the matching of the public sector challenges with private sector competencies in the field of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). In order to support that, the project carried out 8 networking events, helping to build stronger connections between ITS associations, public, private and university representatives of the region. These events have already resulted in some concrete pilot projects and initiatives between public and private sector entities.

Find more information about the network here, https://www.hupmobile-project.eu/materials/its

Outputs

Participatory.Tools: Urban mobility stakeholders engagement toolkit

Hupmobile's Participatory.Tools in an online participatory planning Toolkit which proposes five easy steps for improving stakeholders’ processes and creating a public participation plan. The toolbox consists of a set of guidelines on how to arrange a public engagement process, detailed descriptions of 16 “analogue” and 16 online participation methods, and a search engine to find a suitable combination of methods for each particular case, as well as descriptions of current participatory planning practices of the Project’s partner cities. The Toolkit can be used by urban mobility planners to select the participatory method that is best for codeveloping their transport planning with all of the relevant stakeholders.

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Multimodal optimisation tool for transport flows

This multimodal optimization tool helps in the decision-making process in finding optimized transport flows and the choice of transportation modalities most suitable for the nodes for the weighted criteria. Such criteria can be shift times, arrival of cruise ships, delivery windows, environmental contribution, costs, etc. The tool also provides a description on how to cover all transportation modes as well as consider the differences within a category of transport means (i.e. truck/vessel size, Euro norm, type of fuel) and focus on defining the different interfaces. The tool is not designed for daily work, but for the usage on strategic level in the decision making process. In addition to the involved cities, the tool has so far been used by around 20 other users, however most of those being simulation experts or at least having good knowledge in simulation for validation purpose.

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