EIT Urban Mobility living labs and test beds

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CLEAR street experiments (2020)

City Liveability by Redesign (CLEAR) focuses on street experiments as a transformative tool to create more sustainable cities. This project has explored ways to make streets places for people, rather than just traffic channels in the cities of Milan, Amsterdam, […]

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Upscaling living lab activities

Most of the living labs analyzed with the EIT Urban Mobility study act within the frame of a public private partnership. Other living labs were set up a (European) research project. We specifically look in how to scale up the […]

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Evaluating living labs, challenges and identified needs

There are many types of living labs. Depending on their overall objectives, functioning, and given local circumstances, they differ in set up and obtained successes. Nevertheless, based on the EIT Urban Mobility living lab inventory some overall conclusions can be […]

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Co-creation with the end user

Co-creation of the living lab products and services with an end user is a key feature of living labs. Co-creation refers to the involvement of end users and other relevant stakeholders at all stages, from design to testing and evaluation. […]

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Citizen engagement

Citizens are a specific group of living lab end users. About one-fourth of the living labs analyzed engage citizens in their activities. Either though it was also found that this engagement is often solely taking place at the stages of […]

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Italy – TRElab Logistics Living Lab, Rome

From collecting plastic cups to a fully functioning living lab project. TRElab, which is the laboratory within the Roma Tre University that deals with transport research in the Department of Political Sciences, coordinates the city’s Logistics Living Lab (LLL). The […]

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FURNISH Fast Urban Responses for New Inclusive Spaces and Habitat (2020)

FURNISH aims to merge the challenge of having more public spaces through ‘tactical urbanism’, which can reconfigure a street expanding the space for pedestrians and leisure, with local digital manufacturing, through the quick and effective deployment of urban elements in […]

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Joint Research Centre living labs

To test new technologies and applications under real-life conditions, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has opened two of its research sites, Ispra (IT) and Petten (NL), to host living labs. The two sites allow new applications to be tested in […]

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CIVITAS living labs (2016-2020)

Launched by the European Commission in 2002, the CIVITAS Initiative has tested and implemented over 800 measures and urban transport solutions as part of demonstration projects in a living lab setting in more than 80 cities Europe-wide. The CIVITAS Initiative […]

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Denmark – DOLL Living Lab, Copenhagen

The DOLL (short for Danish Outdoor Lighting Lab) living lab was established in 2013 just a few km off the Copenhagen city center, with a key focus on energy efficiency and smart outdoor lighting. Presently, the DOLL living lab is […]

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