DUT Call 2024 – 15-minute City
Mobility provides city dwellers with essential opportunities to organise and satisfy their daily needs. However, at the same time, the mobility sector is responsible for several challenges to sustainability, such as high levels of GHG-emissions, air and noise pollution, which are significantly worse in urban areas. In this context, the 15-minute City Transition Pathway in DUT promotes concepts, evidence and interventions that support urban mobility transitions. In order to make our cities more liveable, inclusive and climate-neutral, the focus is set on 15-minute neighbourhoods that recognise different urban contexts. The focus lies on knowledge creation, transferability and implementation. Multiple, possibly diverging pathways are necessary for reaching sustainable mobility and transport in different contexts – applying place-sensitive approaches.
This call aims to motivate efforts to extend beyond typical scenarios, encouraging projects that enhance experimentation and practical application. It seeks to address challenging obstacles in implementing the 15-minute City concept, and related fields of policy for urban mobility transitions. It underscores the need to acknowledge diverse starting points for cities and adaptability among various social groups. It emphasises the significance of considering lifestyles, inclusiveness, social cohesion, and social justice within the proposed ideas and proposals. The 15mC topics in this call are focused on innovations for inclusive and youth-centric mobility systems, system innovation and proximity policies for sustainable city-regions as well as evidence for the urban mobility transition through data and indicators for effective decision-making – which specifically encourages approaches across the three TPs.
15-minute City Call Topics
Topic 1: Advancing urban mobility: innovations for inclusive and youth-centric mobility systems
Topic 3: Evidence for the urban mobility transition: data and indicators for effective decision-making
