Imagine if cities could easily swap parking spots or car lanes for safe bike paths and wider sidewalks. This project creates a toolkit to help cities decide exactly where to make these changes using data and AI. It's like a blueprint for making streets feel like living rooms instead of just highways for cars.
Cities struggle to reduce transport emissions because street layouts favor cars over pedestrians and cyclists. This makes active travel feel unsafe and inconvenient, preventing the shift to climate-neutral mobility.
A suite of decision support tools, AI-driven safety solutions, and 15 urban pilots demonstrating street space reallocation.
If you are a consultancy dealing with outdated city layouts — this project developed decision support tools and urban design strategies that help rebalance street space for active mobility. This allows you to offer data-driven redesigns to municipal clients.
If you are a tech provider dealing with road safety risks — this project developed smart technological and data-driven solutions to reduce actual and perceived risks. You can integrate these AI-driven safety insights into your urban monitoring products.
If you are a city manager dealing with high transport emissions — this project developed 15 pilots in urban areas to demonstrate how to shift people toward walking and cycling. This provides a proven roadmap to reach a 55% emission reduction by 2030.
Based on available project data, specific pricing for the tools is not mentioned, as the project is funded by an EU contribution of EUR 11,998,600.
Yes, the project includes 10 Cascade Cities that receive replication packages and guidelines to implement at least one of the piloted solutions.
Based on available project data, the IP and licensing terms are not specified, but the project is coordinated by University College Dublin with 38 partners.
The project runs from May 1, 2023, to April 30, 2027, with the first 18 months already used to identify needs and create action plans.
The solutions are designed to align with Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) and are tested in 15 urban and peri-urban pilots.
The consortium is highly diverse with 38 partners across 13 countries. While led by a university, it maintains an 18% industry ratio with 7 industrial partners and 3 SMEs, suggesting a strong bridge between academic research and practical urban application. The high number of 'Other' partners (22) likely represents the municipal governments of the 20 involved cities.
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