Project partnership offer

Dear colleagues,

We are interested in joining as a project partner and strengthening your consortium. 

We offer input from the already advanced application which we decided to discontinue. We can also bring in partners from our consortium CARIN-PT funded under JPI Urban Europe. 

More about CARIN-PT can be found here:  

We offer the following:

• experience and research results in relation to integrated, resilient and just public transport. We focus on micro-mobility, transit-oriented development, fare-free public transport and flexible on-demand mobility systems. 
• expertise from the CARIN-PT project consortium including an established network with organisations such as research institutions VUB (Belgium), Institute of Transport Economics, TOI (Norway), Lund University (Sweden), VTI (Sweden) and consultant company Tyréns (Sweden). We can also bring in expertise from our ongoing living labs in CARIN-PT, including the Tallinn Urban Region and living labs in Stockholm, Oslo and Flanders
• bring in stakeholders as Associated Partners including government officials and companies. 
• project writing experience with a high success rate by the Knowledge Transfer and Project Support Office of Tallinn University.

Considering that we started with an application, we have parts of the proposal we are ready to contribute to the application. We are willing to offer a dedicated Work Package or a more comprehensive partnership - one living lab/business model scenario that targets all expected objectives of the call. 

We are happy to propose a work package themed on the aspects of social justice with regard to the use of micro-mobility in urban regions.

The key elements of the project concept are communication between and integration of stakeholders. Additionally, with the topic seeking outcomes via pilot testing, our project integrates innovative and alternative sharing platforms to urban mobility provision, finding ways to accommodate not only profit-seeking businesses but also more socially targeted platform mobility providers. Thus, we offer our input in the scope of *Outcome 1* - social inclusion.

Similarly to CARIN-PT, this proposed project importantly stresses inclusivity and justice in working towards clean, accessible, affordable, connected and automated multimodal mobility. Thus, mobility and transport justice constitute the key conceptual basis of the project. A central element of mobility justice is co-creation, understood as the active involvement of citizens, researchers and end-users (governmental and non-governmental) in the production of knowledge or services (Petterson, Westerdahl, & Hansson, 2018; Voorberg, Bekkers, & Tummers, 2015). Co-creation is expanded here to align with the three tenets of justice: equitable distribution of costs and benefits, respectful recognition of heterogeneous citizen/household needs, and locally embedded participation (including both traditional organizations and activist approaches) in designing and producing mobility systems.

The project entails the integration of shared mobility services in the scope of Outcome3 - integration of new and shared mobility services with public transport (incl. carsharing, bicycle-sharing systems, ridesharing companies, carpools, and micro transit) with the public transport systems and various needs and mobility practices in the urban region and remote areas and for various user groups (including families, single parents, elderly, people with special needs). The project also seeks to test new mobility services in affluent car-dependent communities. 

The approach of the project entails:

• gathering existing knowledge on how shared mobility services can be used for different geographical locations, including urban-centred and remote parts of urban regions, and social needs,
• pilot testing of shared mobility solutions in project sites (urban regions)
• formalisation of academic knowledge 

Please contact Prof. Tauri Tuvikene

Research profile:

 Sustainable Transport

 Urban transport

 Project Development

 International Project Management