A Methodology for Designing Sustainable Urban Mobility Interventions Towards Climate Neutral Cities
摘要
The paper outlines the methodology proposed in the European project ELABORATOR, aiming to support European cities in their efforts on person-centered mobility towards climate neutrality. At the centre is the UN SDG 11, which will be addressed via following a co-creation approach, adhering to the quadruple helix model and around articulating and designing urban interventions for all citizens. The employed methodologies facilitate a genuine relationship between citizens and other urban stakeholders via a meet-in-the-middle approach, seeing the city as a meeting place where all involved actors of the helix can co-create to generate new value. This is vital for ensuring societal relevance, unlocking innovative pathways, to support solutions’ adoption and longevity [1]. It is a multi-stage co-creation process encompassing co-designing, co-production, and co-evaluation, spanning in four phases: 1) The Set-up phase establishes a toolkit for evaluating urban mobility indicators, setting baselines while ensuring broad citizen participation. 2) Within the Discovery and Definition phase, actors collaboratively identify local mobility gaps and prioritize interventions, introducing a twinning methodology for knowledge transfer across cities. 3) In the Implementation phase, stakeholders engage in knowledge co-production, assessing each intervention using participatory tools. ICT tools are developed for structured information collection and organization, accessed via a data marketplace, and enabling cross-evaluation. 4) The Evaluation phase follows the steps of before and after studies, where pre-intervention is compared with post-intervention.