Fair Mobility

Fair Mobility employs Participatory Action Research across two pilot cities (Ebensee, Austria and Creil, France), with partners in Germany and Romania acting as replicators to co-create and test gender-sensitive mobility solutions. 

Through a comprehensive five-phase process, the project combines ethnographic diagnosis (storytelling, commented walks), quantitative surveys, co-design workshops, WALKshops, pop-up interventions, and direct community engagement with minoritized groups including women, LGBTQIA+ individuals, migrants, and caregivers. Concrete interventions include:

infrastructure improvements (enhanced lighting, upgraded bus stops, cycling routes), 
policy measures (low-speed zones, anti-harassment campaigns), 
innovative services (community transport, school travel plans). 
Multi-actor networks connecting municipalities, transport operators, civil society, and businesses ensure locally-adapted solutions 
while generating scalable outputs: a tested Fair Mobility Catalogue, gender-sensitive design principles, 
policy recommendations, 
and a digital practitioner toolbox. 

This participatory approach empowers communities to reshape their mobility systems while creating replicable frameworks for addressing intersectional mobility inequalities across Europe's overlooked peri-urban and rural contexts.

Fair Mobility generate meaningful, multi-dimensional impacts by supporting women, gender minorities, and other minoritised groups to co-design inclusive mobility solutions that can improve safety, accessibility, and participation while addressing inequalities. The project seeks to deliver measurable social benefits through: capacity building and improved access to services; policy guidance via gender-sensitive recommendations and local pilot programs; spatial enhancements, such as safer public spaces with better lighting and cycling infrastructure; environmental gains through shifts toward walking, cycling, and shared transport; and economic support for local communities through more accessible mobility services.

Tangible, open-access outputs and practitioner case studies will provide resources for potential replication across Europe. Communication through the project website, social media, films, podcasts, and local workshops engage stakeholders and share emerging insights. Combined with monitoring protocols and stakeholder agreements, these efforts aim to encourage more sustainable governance practices, supporting longer-term, climate-friendly, and equitable mobility systems in diverse peri-urban and rural contexts.