Overview
As urbanisation surges, so does our reliance on cars, leading to congestion, pollution, and climate concerns. Shared mobility services, active transport modes and micromobility are a big part of the solution. With this in mind, the EU-funded GEMINI project aims to transform urban mobility. It will foster shared services, active transport, and micro-mobility integrated with public transit, ushering in a sustainable era of accessible, climate-neutral transportation solutions. Overall, the project will develop sustainable business models and digital platforms to support diverse mobility services. It will also involve stakeholders to formulate policy recommendations. For instance, its Mobility Living Labs and Twinning Cities serve as testbeds, reshaping urban mobility patterns and reducing reliance on cars.
GEMINI’s vision is to accelerate the progress towards climate neutrality by reinforcing a modal shift through the demonstration and uptake of new shared mobility services, active transport modes, and micromobility and their integration with public transport in new generation MaaS services. GEMINI will contribute to Inclusive, Safe, Resilient Transport and Smart Mobility services for passengers and goods in 4 areas:
(i) Developing and testing sustainable business models for New Mobility Services (NMS), including shared connected automated vehicles and shared mobility public transport and public-private partnerships, to increase shared mobility (MaaS and MaaC) solutions for enterprises, families and tourists.
(ii) Creating digital enablers to accommodate mobility services (collaboration platforms and multimodal MaaS solutions)
(iii) Actively engaging stakeholders (co-creation) and integrating in NMS Social Innovation practices, towards incentivising behavioural shift and user acceptance.
(iv) Creating policy recommendations to enable scale-up and replicability of the delivered results in the elaboration and implementation of SUMPs, urban mobility planning frameworks and contribute to the CIVITAS impact assessment framework.
GEMINI will define, ideate, co-create, validate, amplify, and upscale five dimensions of innovation (Business, Social & Behavioural, Operational, Technology Enablers, and Governance & Policy Framework) for delivering safe, resilient, accessible, affordable, and sustainable shared mobility solutions and demonstrate them in 4 Mobility Living Labs (Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Munich, Turin) and 4 Twinning Cities (Helsinki, Paris, Porto, Ljubljana). The MLLs will stimulate improved access to public transport whilst introducing sustainable mobility business models in urban and peri-urban contexts, in turn leading changes in mobility patterns and behaviours, aimed at less car-centred urban mobility systems.