Shared Mobility for All

Shared bikes, scooters, and vehicles are already transforming the way some of us move around the city. But these flexible and low-emission services are far from suitable for everyone. Gaps in design and policy mean that a large majority of these solutions are used exclusively by young urban adults; with children and families, the elderly, and the physically impaired left behind. The new Interreg North Sea Region project Shared multimodal Mobility for ALL (SMALL) aims to change this dynamic to ensure these solutions can be shared by all. By taking a people-focused approach, SMALL will explore how to make shared mobility accessible to children, families, the elderly, and physically impaired people - part of a wider group classified as people with reduced mobility (PRM). SMALL wants to lead both public and private sectors to include reduced mobility users in shared service planning. Led by Belgium NGO Mpact, the consortium composed of twelve European partners will work collectively during the next four years to address these challenges by: - Better understanding and including the needs of the different users in shared mobility design by directly involving them in a co-creation process. - Deploying and testing different inclusive shared mobility solutions in the involved NSR regions. - Producing strategic guidelines building on the SUMP framework to help public authorities and mobility operators to plan and deploy inclusive shared mobility. The SMALL project is composed of 7 public authorities including the City of Amsterdam (NL), Vervoerregio Amsterdam (NL), the Capital Region of Copenhagen (DK), De Fiestssambassade Gent (BE), Brest Metropole (FR), the City of Saint-Quentin (FR), and the Municipality of Varberg (SE), 1 mobility operator Mpact (BE), 3 knowledge organizations University of Gent (BE), The Vrije University of Amsterdam (NL), Rupprecht consulting (DE) and POLIS network (BE).