Publications and policy briefs

Over the course of the project, MOVE21 has released a variety of publications and contributed to policy briefs that reflect its key findings, insights, and progress. These documents play an important role in sharing knowledge, informing stakeholders, and supporting the wider adoption of innovative urban mobility and logistics solutions. Below, you’ll find a selection of the most significant publications produced throughout the project. You can find all official project deliverables in the “Learn” section.

White Paper

The White Paper highlights how public-private collaboration and partnerships can promote sustainable and innovative urban mobility and logistics solutions, and how collaboration between private and public stakeholders can help accelerate the uptake of good solutions across European cities. Traditional public procurement often falls short or fails to deliver intended effects and impacts for endeavours with high innovation potential. This is why public-private collaboration is often crucial to bring about desired societal changes.

SUMP Topic Guide on multi-modal hubs

While the Urban Mobility Framework promotes multimodal hubs as crucial infrastructure for integrated transport, many urban nodes across Europe are still in the early stages of developing them. These hubs remain underrepresented in SUMPs, despite new TEN-T regulation targets for Functional Urban Areas.

This SUMP Topic Guide draws primarily on the Horizon 2020 MOVE21 project, with validation from partners and local authorities involved in SCALE-UP. It includes insights from over 15 cities across 11 European countries, expert interviews, and contributions from related EU projects like SmartHubs, MoloHub, and RESTART. Workshops with both projects helped refine the policy recommendations outlined in the guide.

Innovation Capacity

The Innovation Capacity Summary offers an overview of the concept of ‘Innovation Capacity’, outlining approaches for working with it and highlighting common challenges alongside strategies to overcome them. For those interested in exploring this topic further, we invite you to consult the more detailed MOVE21 project deliverable D6.8 Practitioners guide to setting-up self-sustaining innovation co-creation partnerships.

Infographics

Throughout the project, the Living Labs and Replicator Cities implemented a wide range of measures. To present these initiatives and their results in a clear and accessible way, MOVE21 developed a series of infographics that visually summarise these measures.

Policy Brief – Planning Urban and Trans-European Mobility together

The revised EU TEN-T Regulation (2024) sets out new requirements for 431 European cities, notably the adoption of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) and the development of multimodal passenger hubs and freight terminals. These objectives present both significant challenges and valuable opportunities for urban nodes across Europe. In April 2024, MOVE21 convened representatives from TEN-T urban nodes and mobility experts in Oslo to discuss how to address these new demands. Hosted by the City of Oslo and co-organised with Eurocities and POLIS, the event led to the development of a Policy Brief capturing insights and recommendations.

Policy Brief – Urban Logistics for Ambitious Climate Cities

On 6th September 2024, over 50 delegates from the City of Oslo, local and international businesses, and city officials from Stockholm, Gothenburg and Munich attended the Urban Logistics for Ambitious Climate Cities event at Oslo City Hall. The roundtable event provided a space for public and private sector attendees to speak openly on challenges to, and opportunities for, zero emission and efficient freight logistics across the Norwegian capital. The forum aimed to strengthen public-private collaborations, build momentum toward an aligned vision for effective urban logistics, and advance concrete next steps for policy action. The results are summarised in this Policy Brief.

Policy Brief – European Transport Regulation Observer

The 13th Intermodal Forum discussed the issue of coordination of urban hubs (at this stage only for passenger transport). What would be appropriate basic and commonly agreed mechanisms?
Who could/should be in charge of coordinating and representing the stakeholders in an urban node? Is there a single structure or at least some common principles? What options could be envisaged? The answers to these questions can be found in this Policy Brief.

Policy Brief – Urban Nodes: Empowering Cities and Regions to build the TEN-T

Under the Urban Nodes Alliance, MOVE21 has joined forces with EGTC – Interregional Alliance for the Rhine-Alpine Corridor, EMTA, ERRIN, POLIS network, Eurocities, and Scandria Alliance to issue a joint policy brief, titled “Urban Nodes: Empowering cities and regions to build the TEN-T”. This first recommendation from the Urban Nodes Alliance, released during the 2024 Connecting Europe Days integrates the expertise of each of the Alliance partners, as well as the EU-funded projects MOVE21 and SCALE-UP. In the report, EU Member States (with the support of the EU and corridor coordinators, where needed) are invited to foster a closer dialogue with local, regional, and transport authorities in order to establish appropriate governance structures for designated urban nodes.