Harmony’s vision is to enable metropolitan area authorities to lead a sustainable transition to a low-carbon new mobility era. Our spatial and multimodal transport planning tools will update the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans of the future.

The challenge
Metropolitan areas should be at the heart of any attempt to address the COP22 climate goals. They are responsible for over two-thirds of greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption. Despite improvements in technology and transport modes, access to key activity hubs has deteriorated and private vehicle reliance has grown, largely because distances between destinations (workplaces, shops etc.) have increased. Widespread congestion is increasing pollution levels and travel times, thus reducing people’s quality of life. Many metropolitan areas do not have a sufficiently developed public transport system to provide a satisfactory alternative to private cars. This often leads to inefficiencies, poor regional connectivity and accessibility and inconsistent fares or schedules within metropolitan areas.

Our demonstration sites
HARMONY will focus on six cities and metropolitan areas situated on six different TEN-T corridors. This way, it will cover a broad range of challenges and possibilities. Cities and regions have different characteristics in terms of size, demographics, geographic location, transport characteristics, infrastructure and availability of data and policy frameworks. This diverse context will also ensure the replicability of results.

• Athens: Harmony will organise co-creation labs to engage local stakeholders and citizens, apply the model suite and recommend updates for the spatial and transport planning strategy and develop business cases.
• Oxfordshire: Harmony will engage stakeholders and citizens in co-creation labs, integrate and demonstrate electric autonomous vehicles and drones, apply the model suite and recommend updates for the regional spatial and transport planning strategy.
• Rotterdam: Harmony will engage with national and international stakeholders and citizens in co-creation labs, integrate and demonstrate electric autonomous vehicles, collect primary data, apply the model suite,recommend updates for the spatial and transport planning strategy.
• Trikala: Harmony will engage stakeholders and citizens to understand their requirements, demonstrate drones, collect data to explore the impact of new mobility technologies and services, assist the authority to deliver the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP).
• Turin: Harmony will engage stakeholders and citizens in co-creation labs, collect primary data to understand the social acceptance for new mobility technologies and services, apply the model suite, support the SUMP update.
• Upper Silesian-Zaglebie: Harmony will engage with stakeholders and citizens to understand their spatial and transport needs and transfer results from the model suite application to update the SUMP, plan the metropolitan-wide transport, and introduce new forms of mobility.Website: http://harmony-h2020.eu