Approach

Six pilot cities will look at likely impacts and operational feasibility of new mobility solutions, identify areas where policy interventions will be needed, and then test and validate the pilot solutions. The pilots vary in their focus: passenger, freight or integrated transport; from the very local to the peri-urban; and emphasizes  different special user groups. Policy priorities vary too: mobility itself, land-use, gender/age issues, financing have greater or lesser weight in the different cities.

SPROUT will also engage with nine validation cities and urban areas, each of which will be contributing to the revision of one or more of the pilot solutions, thus ensuring that findings are generally applicable. A third layer of cities will be also engaged, by training on project’s tools and contributing to the project’s dissemination activities.

Urban transition inventory and drivers

This will be done by:

• constructing an inventory of the elements reflecting urban mobility transition
• identifying a set of KPIs to track the current status of urban mobility
• defining the drivers of urban mobility transition in SPROUT cities
• defining the stakeholders affected by the transition

Urban mobility scenarios

This methodology has two objectives:

• The definition of the expected sustainability and policy impacts of the scenarios
• The creation of a basis for the setup of the pilots in the 1^st layer cities, as well as the assessment of alternative policy responses.