Transport currently accounts for about a third of all climate emissions in Europe. Without significant measures, transport will be the largest source of climate gas emissions by 2030. It is expected that passenger and freight transport will grow by more than 40% and 60%, respectively, by 2050.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, massive shifts in transport patterns occurred overnight, intensifying transport-related challenges in cities.
MOVE21 connected urban systems through an integrated approach, addressing both goods and passenger transport. The aim was to improve efficiency, capacity utilisation of existing vehicles and transport-related infrastructure, accessibility, and innovation capacity in urban transport. As a welcome side effect, cities became better equipped to handle rapid changes in transport patterns due to unforeseen events such as pandemics.
The idea of cities as testbeds was central to MOVE21, and the project comprised three Living Labs in Oslo, Gothenburg and Hamburg, together with three replicator cities: Munich, Bologna and Rome.
The project tested and upscaled different solutions for passenger and goods transport in these six urban areas across the Scandinavian-Mediterranean (Scan-Med) Corridor of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). The aim was to harness the positive effects of new solutions, not only in the so-called urban nodes, but across the Scan-Med TEN-T corridor.
MOVE21 delivered new, close-to-market-ready solutions that had been proven to work in different regulatory and governance settings. The cities were also committed to upscaling the most prominent solutions – ranging from new technological integrations or business models to new procurement and governance methods.
