The SmartHubs project examines mobility hubs, dedicated on-street locations where citizens can choose from different shared and sustainable mobility options. The main objective is ​to assess if a co-designed, user-centric development can enable mobility hubs to act as a game changer towards sustainable urban mobility and accessibility​. SmartHubs will examine, develop and apply research methods and tools in four SmartHubs Living Labs in Belgium (Brussels), the Netherlands (Rotterdam-the Hague), Germany (Munich) and Austria (Vienna and aspern Seestadt).

SmartHubs will develop and apply novel participatory and impact assessment tools like

• an open accessibility tool involving inputs from individual citizens to examine the local accessibility impacts of mobility hubs,
• an accessibility network analysis and resilience tool to examine the impacts of mobility hubs on transport network resilience,
• a multi-actor multi-criteria analysis method to involve individual citizens and
• tangible augmented reality technologies and gamification and user experience (UX) approaches to facilitate co-creation processes of mobility hub design.

Finally, SmartHubs will conduct rigorous research on a broad range of mobility, accessibility, vulnerability, resilience and societal impacts of mobility hubs (including environmental, equity, gender, and transport poverty impacts) which go beyond the current state of the art.

© Lukas Philippovich, aspern.mobil LAB

The photograph shows the underground station Aspern Nord .

The photograph shows the underground station Aspern Nord .