“e-smartec” project is designed to strengthen the urban dimension of regional and local mobility policymaking, contributing to the implementation of the EU Transport White Paper, Urban Agenda and EU 2020 with a view to transit to a low carbon economy. Many European urban areas face a series of environmental challenges linked to mobility – congestion linked to air pollution.

Based on the experience, sustainable urban mobility planning cannot be achieved without the commitment of key stakeholders and travellers and given this need, e-smartec proposes accompanying each step of mobility planning with the deployment of targeted marketing techniques for linking bottom-up and top-down decision making.

Users’ engagement in mobility planning is often a big challenge for authorities since it requires deep knowledge of marketing and sociological aspects – overcoming this threat (of developing plans that are not acceptable by the public, thus ineffective) is the central axis of the experience exchange among authorities and experts in e-smartec project.