Ghent is a city in Belgian Flanders with about 265,000 inhabitants. Ghent is a growing city with increasing competition for space in the city. The city has long focused on the use of its streets and public spaces to make the city more socially and environmentally sustainable.
In today's cities, we travel in a way that is unsustainable, generating high emissions and using far more resources than the planet can sustain, while creating unequal conditions for citizens. To transform mobility and places for a climate-neutral future, we need radical implementation of existing and new solutions that can be scaled up and create the new normal. During Transition Lab Forum 16 in Gothenburg, we will delve into the future of places and mobility as a key issue in the transition to Climate Neutral Cities 2030.
In Gothenburg, the municipality works with local property owners through mobility agreements. The agreements allow owners to build fewer parking spaces if they offer residents other ways to travel, such as access to carpools, public transport passes and cargo bikes.
Business Region Göteborg, the City of Gothenburg and Nordstan Business Center have jointly developed Sweden's first mobility hotel, where six different actors collaborate to increase the share of green and emission-free transport in the inner city.
In Gothenburg, the Framtiden Group has developed a mobility strategy that aims to make it easier for its tenants not to travel by (own) car - both by offering sustainable alternatives and through the availability and pricing of parking.
Karlstad, Klimatkommunerna and the Swedish Taxi Association are collaborating on Tjänsteskjuts, an alternative to the number of company vehicles owned or leased by the municipality. The new solution can both save money and have environmental benefits, reduce traffic, pollution, noise and parking in the city and make working life more efficient and create new jobs, especially for people who are currently far from the labor market.
Helsingborg wants to challenge traditional management of municipal goods distribution and test new ways of managing deliveries using digitized delivery data and smarter ordering processes. Therefore, they developed a digital platform for transparent transportation.
How to create conditions for sustainable and attractive transport in the city? And how can the city develop when exhaust gases and noise disappear? In Gothenburg, 15 stakeholders from industry, research and society are working together to develop, test and demonstrate new solutions for the future. The collaboration is called ElectriCity.
Gothenburg Climate Partnership (GCP) is a long-term and active collaboration between the business community in the Gothenburg region and the City of Gothenburg to reduce climate impact. One of the initiatives focuses on transportation and micromobility.
Gävle municipality was the first in Sweden to procure a service for a rental bike system with both electric scooters and electric bikes.
In the Sweden Green Mobility Program, which is part of Omställningslyftet, Borlänge is testing a new way to work with innovation procurement to solve a climate challenge: commuting.
Gothenburg Green City Zone is a zone in Gothenburg where the transportation system of the future is developed and tested. The goal is a completely new emission-free transportation system in terms of new technology in both vehicles and infrastructure.
The transport cluster in Eskilstuna was awarded the municipal environmental prize 2023 for its efforts in climate change. The cluster consists of five haulage companies and Eskilstuna Strängnäs Energi & Miljö. The purpose is to work together as a local industry on issues related to local growth and the transition.
How we transport ourselves and goods is one of the biggest challenges to achieving climate neutrality. At Transition Lab Forum 12, we take a deep dive into the future of mobility as a key issue for the transition to climate-neutral and sustainable cities by 2030. What methods and approaches are available for how actors can lead and work together to promote climate-smart mobility to accelerate the transition to climate-neutral cities?
Much of the emissions in cities come from the transportation of people and goods, making mobility a key issue in the transition to climate-neutral cities.
How can future mobility be designed for the transition to climate neutrality, and what can it look like in practice? That's what we talk about in this climate breakfast.
During the Transition Lab Forum 9, a number of key actors working in different ways on the issue of climate-smart mobility met. Among other things, it was about mobile hubs and shared mobility; quite simply: How do we manage our everyday trips without a car? We also got an insight into the host city Helsingborg's work on climate change. The event was organized together with Drive Sweden during H22.
Viable Cities' mission is climate-neutral and sustainable cities by 2030. Drive Sweden's vision is to create sustainable and safe mobility systems for people and goods that are accessible to everyone. We are now launching a collaboration to accelerate the climate transition: Climate Smart Mobility 2030. During our first joint event, we explored the transition to climate-neutral urban mobility through international perspectives, panel discussions and inspiring examples.
Climate Breakfast 4 was arranged in collaboration with our sister program Drive Sweden and focused on different pieces of the puzzle that are necessary in the transition towards a transport system that is sustainable, safe and accessible to all. Inspirers are Peter Hafmar, Autonomous drive strategist, NEVS and Suzanne Andersson, development strategist Trafikkontoret Göteborgs stad.
