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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 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...

Resources

12 Jun 2024

A serious game co-creation approach for inclusiveness

Automated vehicles are potential disrupters of the mobility system and are expected to address inclusive mobility issues. Yet, the transition to their full implementation in cities is expected to face...

07 Aug 2026

Challenges and Design Implications in Socially Resilient Mobility Planning

As mobility systems evolve, their design must enable people to adapt to disruptions in their daily lives and routines, making social resilience a vital yet underexplored focus. This is why this study...

21 Jan 2026

Dementia‑Friendly Transport and Universal Design

This report investigates travel experiences and barriers faced by people living with dementia in Norway, focusing on how universal‑design principles can be extended to improve cognitive accessibil...

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...

07 Aug 2026

Dynamics of sustained co-design in Urban Living Labs

Urban Living Labs (ULLs) are increasingly applied to tackle wicked design challenges in smart cities and smart mobility contexts. A persisting challenge for ULLs in urban contexts is creating engageme...

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 Jul 2026

Know Your Customer: Enhanced Awareness of Travel Patterns and Preferences

This brief explains how the UPPER project is strengthening understanding of travel patterns and preferences to support public transport planning. It starts from the observation that, while public tran...

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...

10 Dec 2025

Persuasion Profiles to Promote Pedestrianism: Effective Targeting of Active‑Travel Messages

This study proposes novel strategies for tailoring messages that encourage walking, intended for integration into travel‑planning tools, Mobility‑as‑a‑Service (MaaS) platforms and other sustai...

07 Aug 2026

Scaling Deep with Local Community Champions in Living Labs

Living Labs are collaborative, real-world environments for co-creating sustainable innovations that rely on trust-based engagement with local communities. However, while many studies emphasise scaling...

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...

25 Apr 2025

Wecity app and platform to encourage sustainable mobility choices

Wecity aims to encourage the use of sustainable transport modes (walking, cycling, public transport, carpooling) by rewarding users with credits for each activity that reduces their carbon footprint....