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Urban mobility challenges from use cases and how they can be addressed by Disrup...

Despite their specific peculiarities such as organisational approaches, problems faced and mobility needs to be satisfied, the cities of Amsterdam, Bilbao Helsinki and Messina have some commonalities in terms of potential application of disruptive technologies that can help their respective decis...

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Urban mobility challenges from use cases and how they can be addressed by Disrup...

Now, we head for our final stop; through the "Scandinavian - Mediterranean" corridor we cross Europe from north to south and arrive in the City of Messina. The metropolitan area of Messina is one of the most extended areas of the south of Italy and the first in Sicily and counts over 620.000 citi...

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Urban mobility challenges from use cases and how they can be addressed by Disrup...

The third stop of our journey is Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Helsinki is a continuously evolving and developing city. In this sense a particular example is represented by the Jätkäsaari area. The shore area of Jätkäsaari, literally meaning “Dockers’ Island”, was previously used for indu...

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Urban mobility challenges from use cases and how they can be addressed by Disrup...

Now, we head for our second stop; going through the "North Sea - Mediterranean" and the "Atlantic" corridors of the Trans-European Transport Network we move in the north of Spain, in the city of Bilbao.With an area of 41,60 km2 and around 355,000 inhabitants, Bilbao is the heart of a metropolitan...

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Urban mobility challenges from use cases and how they can be addressed by Disrup...

Today's cities are facing a revolutionary era in urban mobility; this is due to different factors, among the others their continuous growth and the concentration of human activities.To prevent and solve problems related to mobility such as traffic congestion and pollution (e.g. air and noise) cit...