Funding: NWO / Driving Urban Transitions Partnership
Project: DREAMS
Timeline: 1/2024-12/2026
Driving Urban Transitions: Driving Equitable and Accessible 15 Minute Neighbourhood Transformations
Involved: Prof dr ing KT. Geurs (project coordinator), Dr. Anna Grigolon, Dr. Baran Ulak, Dr. Daniela Arias Molinares
Website: https://www.dreams15mc.eu
The DREAMS project aims to examine how co-created and user-centric shared mobility services can contribute to accessible, sustainable and inclusive 15mC neighbourhoods in urban outskirts in European cities and regions. DREAMS will conduct research in six living labs across Europe: Budapest, Brussels, Munich, Paris, Utrecht and Vienna. DREAMS will firstly provide a comprehensive and comparative analysis of 15mC lifestyles in a variety of low- to mid-density suburban and urban outskirts in the five regions. Secondly, DREAMS aims to develop and test new business models and governance frameworks for mobility services (including micromobility, car sharing, demand responsive transport) and activity hubs in low/medium density areas in order to decrease car dependence. Thirdly, DREAMS will develop and apply tools for the co-creation of mobility services and flexible activity hubs in living labs in urban outskirts in the six city regions. Fourthly, DREAMS will examine the mobility, accessibility and wider societal impacts of the new mobility and activity location services. Finally, the last aim is to give policy recommendations on pathways towards creating sustainable and inclusive urban mobility in 15mC neighbourhoods in urban outskirts through the utilisation of co-created and user-centric new mobility services, flexible activity locations and new governance-business models.