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project info
Start date: 1 August 2019
End date: 31 January 2022
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 1 924 999,00 €
EU contribution: 644 875,00 € (33,5%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2020
Managing authority: työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö, yritys- ja alueosaston rakennerahastot ja koheesiopolitiikka -ryhmä
European Commission Topic

6Time: Low-carbon mobility in transport hubs

Transport is responsible for about one fifth of Finland’s CO2 emissions. Cities play an important role in cutting transport emissions. The transport system is changing rapidly as technology evolves and transport services become electrified. New transport services such as Mobility as a Service (MaaS) are a growing market with a worldwide business potential of hundreds of billions of euros. New transport services can effectively reduce CO2 emissions from transport and, at the same time, create new domestic business. The problems and opportunities in the transport sector are typically so large that no operator can address them on its own. There is a need for wide-ranging cooperation and network thinking. The national growth programme in the transport sector therefore encourages closer cooperation between private and public sector operators.This project will study, develop and test the efficiency of mobility solutions in four cities, Espoo, Oulu, Tampere and Turku, in cooperation with companies in the field. The platform for development is the so-called traffic hubs, i.e. centres characterised by large numbers of regular visitors and good public transport. Each project city has designated a hub or hubs with identified potential for developing, testing and deploying various mobility services as a development platform for business cooperation. The main objective of the project is to improve business opportunities in the following thematic areas: new mobility services and development of travel chains, development of a parking system, robot buses and electric mobility equipment. The project will allow companies to test and find new low-carbon mobility business models that can later be productised and scaled into a modern transport system. The project is a pilot programme, the benefits and lessons of which are reported openly and the results of which serve companies widely. Transport hubs are developed in close cooperation with cities and businesses and other stakeholders. Workshops will be used in the development. The project process can be divided into four work packages:1. an initial data analysis of service needs and, if necessary, the acquisition of complementary information2. the development of identified service packages3. trials to be launched4. monitoring of experiments and the whole project, impact assessment and scaling of the service operating model. The project generates valuable information on services and business opportunities that reduce the need for passenger car mobility. The project will create new user-driven transport services operating on market terms in a short period of time. The aim is that the best transport services tested in the project remain permanent services in traffic hubs and scale elsewhere in Finland and abroad, which reduces the carbon footprint of mobility. This is well in line with the international and national development goals of sustainable development and carbon neutrality.The project implements the Road Map of the Transport Sustainable Growth Agenda and the key impact objectives of the 6A Time Strategy by creating new skills, business and jobs through mobility hubs as innovation platforms and cross-border cross-border cooperation.The project follows the horizontal principles of gender equality, equality and sustainable development, taking into account the needs of different people and opportunities for mobility in transport hubs. The mobility services to be developed in the project will be targeted at all genders, taking into account the different modes of transport choices of the sexes. In addition, different user groups are taken into account in the design of the services to be tested, as well as in marketing and communication.

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