SPECIFIC

Informed by scholarship on social practices, urban governance and politics, and mobility justice, SPECIFIC conducts 'transition experiments' in Bellinzona, Bristol, Graz, Maastricht and Poznan. In those experiments, researchers, public officials, local businesses, activists and residents co-create place-specific interventions to encourage different cycling practices. Learnings are developed further in a virtual 'mega-lab' in which city representatives generalise insights from each city into lessons and insights applicable in small- and medium-sized cities across Europe. A card game and multiple zines will also be developed to help policy-makers, activities and other actors in small- and medium-sized cities across Europe to facilitate different kinds of cycling in car-oriented, low-density and peripheral areas. 

SPECIFIC will generate scalable insights and tools (e.g. a card game, zines) to facilitate cycling for commutes to paid work or school, for last-mile delivery, and for trips within organisations in low-density, peripheral areas of small- and medium-sized cities across Europe. Their application will allow policymakers, activists and businesses to make different forms of cycling more equitable in ways that are procedurally just and attuned to the needs, concerns, customs and knowledges of different potential user communities. This will increase overall cycling rates, reduce resistance against cycling-enhancing initiatives, improve public health and quality of life, and reduce emissions from transport in small and medium-sized cities across Europe.