SOLUTIONS aims to support the exchange on innovative and green urban mobility solutions between cities from Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Mediterranean. The project brings together a wealth of experience and technical knowledge from international organisations, consultants, cities, and experts involved in transport issues and solutions.

Five of the 19 successful cities were chosen as leading cities, to act as mentors on transport policies; five were designated as take-up cities, looking for solutions to existing problems. Leading and take-up cities paired off in twinning workshops, according to their transport interests and other similarities, such as size. Each pair then picked measures for the take-up city from policies suggested by the project members. Support for cities during the take-up process includes advice from lead city peers and SOLUTIONS experts in the form of on-call advice, targeted policy analysis and visits to the lead city. Policymakers from the remaining nine cities receive policy advice and attend regular workshops to share knowledge and build their capacity to develop sustainable mobility measures. Online training courses and materials covering one or all of the research themes are also available on the project’s website, along with links to related EU-funded projects. Meanwhile, academic publications and urban transport events are providing a wider platform for the project’s results. One outcome of this sharing is the Urban Mobility SOLUTIONS Network, to be launched early next year, which will sustain the partnerships established in the project and include a focus group on transport research in Mediterranean partner countries. Together with the partner UN HABITAT – the UN’s programme for human settlements, SOLUTIONS has also developed the Urban Electric Mobility Initiative (UEMI) to promote electric mobility in urban areas. UEMI was launched at the UN Climate Summit in 2014 and progress will be presented at the UN Climate Conference (COP 21) in Paris in late 2015.

There are a number of capacity building workshops in Europe, Asia, African and Latin America and a series of Webinars and e-learning courses. The SOLUTIONS courses are intended for professionals working in the field of urban mobility who wish to expand their knowledge and share their experiences with participants from around the world. No detailed pre-knowledge is required in order to participate. Each course is designed to include tailored tasks and interactions with experts and other participants.

The SOLUTIONS project is coordinated by Wuppertal Institute. The project consortium brings together a wealth of experience and know-how from organisations, consultants, cities, research and technical experts involved in transport issues and solutions across the globe. Learn more about the individual partners by clicking on their logo or the links on the left. The project’s overall objective is to make a substantial contribution to the uptake of innovative and green urban mobility solutions across the world by facilitating dialogue and exchange, promoting successful policy, providing guidance and tailored advice to city officials, and fostering future cooperation on research, development and innovation.

Wuppertal Institute, Rupprecht Consult, Polis, ICLEI Europe, ICLEI South Asia, EMBARQ México, EMBARQ Brasil, World Resources Institute, WRI India, EMBARQ Turkey, CERTH, FEHRL, UN-HABITAT, IFSTTAR, AustriaTech, CATS, Technion, Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities, LNEC, Mobili-T, ICCT, ZLC, AVERE, BASt