UPPER

UPPER aims at spearheading a Public Transport revolution that will strengthen the role of PT as the flagship of sustainability and innovation of mobility in cities, leading the transition towards a zero emission mobility which will become the cornerstone of climate neutrality by 2030, in line with the goal of Cities Mission and the priorities of the Green Deal. UPPER will put the Public Transport at the centre of the mobility ecosystem and will implement a combination of 84 push and pull measures, acting on the 5 innovation axes that condition user’s choices: mindset and culture, urban mobility planning, mobility services ecosystem, road network management and democratic governance. These measures will act in 4 different timescales (from shorter to longer-term): communication, operations, infrastructure and urban fabric. The UPPER measures will be supported by the UPPER Toolkit (U-TWIN, U-SIM, U-NEED, U-GOV, U-KNOW, U-TRANSFER and U-SUMP), 7 IT tools combining social and technological innovation that will be demonstrated within the measures in the 5+5 UPPER living labs and twinning sites, with the overall target of increasing the use of public transport by >30% and the user satisfaction by >25%, leaving nobody behind in the process.

This integrated and holistic approach will ease the cooperation among authorities and operators, offer a physical and digital environment to test the measures, update the existing SUMPs, optimise the PT offer in line with user needs and patterns, involve the users in the overall mobility decision chain, trigger the behavioural change in favour of Public Transport and achieve an attractive, efficient, reliable, safe, inclusive and affordable Public Transport system in line with the concept of Mobility as a Right (MaaR).

Consortium

UNION INTERNATIONALE DES TRANSPORTS PUBLICS, Belgium
FIT CONSULTING SRL, Italy
ETRA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA, Spain
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN, Belgium
POLIS, Belgium
EMTA EUROPEAN METROPOLITAN TRANSPORT AUTHORITIES, France
RUPPRECHT CONSULT-FORSCHUNG & BERATUNG GMBH, Germany
ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH (ICLEI EUROPASEKRETARIAT GMBH), Germany
EIT KIC URBAN MOBILITY SL, Spain
EUROCITIES ASBL, Belgium
INSTITUTO DE BIOMECANICA DE VALENCIA, Spain
PTV PLANUNG TRANSPORT VERKEHR GmbH, Germany
SISTEMA – SOLUZIONI PER L INGEGNERIA DEI SISTEMA DI TRASPORTO E L INFOMOBILITA SRL, Italy
FACTUAL CONSULTING SL, Spain
COMMUNAUTE D’AGGLOMERATION DE VERSAILLES GRAND PARC, France
INSTANT SYSTEM, France
IFP Energies nouvelles, France
ROMA SERVIZI PER LA MOBILITA SRL, Italy
ROMA CAPITALE, Italy
TTS Italia, Italy
EMPRESA MUNICIPAL DE TRANSPORTES DE VALENCIA SA, Spain
UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA, Spain
AYUNTAMIENTO DE VALENCIA, Spain
RUTER AS, Norway
STATENS VEGVESEN, Norway
OSLO KOMMUNE, Norway
BKK BUDAPESTI KOZLEKEDESI KOZPONT ZARTKORUEN MUKODO RESZVENYTARSASAG, Hungary
CAMARA MUNICIPAL DE LISBOA, Portugal
TML – TRANSPORTES METROPOLITANOS DE LISBOA EMT SA, Portugal
COMPANHIA CARRIS DE FERRO DE LISBOA, E.M., S.A., Portugal
STAD LEUVEN, Belgium
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS, Greece
ORGANISMOS SYGKOINONIAKOY ERGOU THESSALONIKIS ANONYMI ETAIRIA, Greece
STADT MANNHEIM, Germany
RHEIN-NECKAR-VERKEHR GMBH, Germany
REGION HANNOVER, Germany
EUROPEAN PASSENGERS’ FEDERATION IVZW, Belgium
EUROPEAN CYCLISTS FEDERATION ASBL, Belgium
REDLAB, France
EIT URBAN MOBILITY FOUNDATION, Spain
INSTITUT D’AMENAGEMENT ET D’URBANISME DE LA REGION D’ILE DE FRANCE, France