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Capacity Building Events

30.11.-0001

“Improving Public Transport for a Changing Urban Landscape” The 3rd UPPER&SPINE Webinar

UPPER Project EU teamed up again with sister project SPINE for the 3rd Webinar Series. This time, we focused on 'Improving Public Transport for a Changing Urban Landscape. A privileged catwalk to pres...

30.11.-0001

UPPER, MOVE21 & SCALE-UP webinar on ‘Mobility management around large events’

The joint webinar, organized and registered by Eurocities's Florian Becker and Lucian Zagan, featuring contributions from UPPER Project EU, MOVE21: Zero Emission 21st Century & SCALE-UP Project, f...

30.11.-0001

UPPER&SPINE ”Integrating public transport with active mobility for saving energy in the future”

Transport accounts for 24% of CO2 emissions in the energy sector. To address this situation, the European Green Deal, Sustainable and Smart Mobility, and the New Urban Mobility Framework aim to reduce...

30.11.-0001

UPPER&SPINE workshop “Streets for Life” – lower speed limits and better public transport

Whether you are a concerned citizen, urban planner, policy-maker, or transportation professional, this webinar will provide an invaluable platform for knowledge-sharing, inspiration, and constructive...

30.11.-0001

Webinar: Streets for All. Mobility as a Right & School Streets

In this knowledge exchange webinar, organized jointly by Horizon-funded projects REALLOCATE, UPPER, and JUST STREETS, we propose to address two topics related to inclusive urban mobility: mobility jus...

Evaluation Metrics and Methodology

24 Apr 2025

Data collection and analysis of active modes use and infrastructure

Evaluation methodology on comparable data collection on walking and cycling. Scope of the methodology The study addresses the lack of comparable statistics concerning walking and cycling in the EU...

Resources

21 Nov 2025

A Small Town with Big Mobility Challenges

Best‑practice description Vallirana (near Barcelona) suffered from infrequent public‑transport services, leaving residents heavily reliant on cars. Shotl redesigned suburban mobility by combining...

27 Oct 2025

Analysing Shared Mobility Markets in 311 European Cities

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of shared mobility schemes across 311 European cities, examining the evolution and expansion of services such as bike‑sharing and car‑sharing. The rese...

05 Nov 2024

Analysis of perceived pedestrian accessibility to railway stations in Bavaria

Walking connects different modes of transport and acts as the main feeder for public transport. Nonetheless, ensuring high-quality accessibility for pedestrians to railway stations is seldom evaluated...

18 Nov 2025

Audit and Planning of Lisbon’s Cycling Network

Best‑practice description Lisbon’s cycling network, launched in 2017, has expanded rapidly but has suffered from uneven maintenance and fragmented implementation. To ensure continuity and effec...

07 Aug 2024

Clean Bus Report: An Overview of Clean Buses in Europe

Report publishing the results of an investigation into the development of clean bus fleets in Europe and beyond between 2017 and 2022. This report, compiled by the ASSURED project consortium, is based...

27 Oct 2025

Curitiba BRT Modernisation – Integrated Bus Rapid Transit

Curitiba’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, the Rede Integrada de Transporte (RIT), was launched in 1974 and quickly became a benchmark for cost‑effective, high‑capacity public transport. It in...

10 Jul 2024

Designing healthier cities to improve life quality: unveiling challenges and outcomes in two Spanish cases

This study assesses the early outcomes of the Poblenou Superblock in Barcelona and a nature-based solutions project in Valladolid. By critically analysing available data and collecting residents’ pe...

21 Nov 2025

Eradicating Diesel Buses from Paris’ Public Transport Fleet

Best‑practice description Since 2015 RATP has pursued the Bus2025 strategy, aiming to replace all diesel‑powered buses with low‑emission alternatives by 2025. The programme targets a flee...

29 Oct 2024

Guidebook for Designing an Accessible Environment

The purpose of this guidebook is to define the accessibility requirements of the surface reconstructions, architectural and interior designs, public transport developments and the services and product...

24 Oct 2024

Guidelines for developing and implementing a SUMP (2nd edition)

The guidelines provide a comprehensive framework aimed at addressing the complexities of urban transport planning. The primary issue these guidelines tackle is the need for sustainable urban mobility...

07 Aug 2024

Improving public transport in the Glasgow City Region

This report assesses the current performance of the public transport network in and around Glasgow, what improvements could be made and how many more people these could connect to the transport networ...

10 Jul 2024

Innovative Funding Solutions for Public Transport: Survey Results

An increase during the last decade in demand for transportation services, in terms of ridership, coverage and quality expectations, has caused a subsequent increase in operation costs. Traditionally,...

30 Oct 2024

Integrating Walking + Public Transport

This policy brief: Makes recommendations to “increase walking activity and public transport ridership by creating and promoting safe, accessible and comfortable walkable catchments to and fro...

05 Nov 2024

Mobility Hubs: steering the shift towards integrated sustainable mobility

The growing shift toward sustainable, multimodal transportation has made mobility hubs a key pillar in public transport and urban mobility strategies. This best practice focuses on the implementation...

30 Oct 2024

Mobility Stations — Guidelines for efficient, user-friendly hubs

The framework outlines the principles and guidelines for the development of mobility stations, which are multi-modal transport hubs designed to improve accessibility and connectivity within urban area...

06 Aug 2024

On the road to a concept for Bus Rapid Transit

This publication aims to serve as a baseline describing the state-of-the-art of (E)Bus Rapid Transit systems around the world, creating a benchmark for the eBRT2030 project. The report examines th...

21 Nov 2025

Optimised Scenarios for Bergen Light Rail Expansion

Best‑practice description The Bergen Light Rail (BLR) upgraded its 20 km single‑line network into a multi‑line system to boost efficiency, ridership, cost‑effectiveness, and sustainability....

11 Mar 2025

Overtaking in Stuttgart: lateral distance between vehicles analysis

In the context of climate change, it is desirable to increase the share of cycling. One way of doing this is to strengthen subjective safety of cyclists. At present, many people perceive cycling as un...

24 Oct 2024

Planning a long-term zero carbon transition pathway

The SUMP-PLUS Policy Brief #1, released in December 2022, addresses the pressing issue of decarbonizing urban transport as part of broader efforts to combat climate change. In the context of the Europ...

27 Oct 2025

PTV Vissim – Microscopic Multimodal Traffic Simulation

PTV Vissim simulates and analyses multimodal traffic scenarios, measuring travel time, delays, queue lengths, emissions, vehicle throughput, passenger interactions, and the operational efficiency of...

27 Oct 2025

Shared Micro‑Mobility and Transport Equity: A European Case Study

This study examines the impact of shared micro‑mobility services—such as e‑scooters and e‑bikes—on transport equity in three European countries: Germany, the Netherlands, and the United King...

29 Oct 2024

The relationship between universal design and accessibility

The purpose of this document is to help planners, decision-makers and other stakeholders in the planning of public spaces to make them as functional, aesthetic and user-friendly as possible and to cre...

05 Nov 2024

Transit-oriented development integration of land use and transport, and pedestrian accessibility

The article discusses the integration of land use and transportation planning through the lens of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) in Lisbon, Portugal. It highlights the importance of creatin...

03 Jul 2024

Transport Poverty, a public health issue

This briefing describes a multidimensional definition of transport poverty developed in collaboration with health and transport experts. It outlines the causes of transport poverty within and beyond t...

21 Aug 2024

Understanding Pedestrian Access to Public Transport

Public transport journeys include a substantial amount of walking. Around 90 per cent (90%) of public transport users walk to stops and spend about 45 per cent (45%) of the travel time outside of publ...

30 Sep 2024

VRN Guide to Shared Mobility

The guidance framework outlined in the document focuses on enhancing the integration and operational efficiency of shared mobility services within urban transport systems. Its primary objective is to...