Co-creation of Local Mobility Solutions: Lessons from the Mobility Lab in Hamburg-Altona

Abstract

The Altona Mobility Lab, part of the EU project “Cities-4-People” funded by Horizon 2020, seeks to implement locally developed mobility solutions through a dedicated co-creative approach. The Lab demonstrates the process of community building, ideation, and implementation for user-centric mobility solutions and provides an example of co-creation in implementation of neighborhood-level mobility solutions. This paper addresses key considerations of public participation and provides a model for considering challenges faced and addressed by Urban Living Labs. The analysis of the Altona Mobility Lab process demonstrates the potential successes and obstacles for the Living Lab method for the participative development of user-centric sustainable mobility solutions.