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The MyFairShare consirtium will be participating in the 2024 Annual POLIS Conference.
Philipp Rode from MyFairShare project partner LSE will give the keynote speech during the Opening Plenary on 27 November. Kristin Tovaas from MyFairShare project Partner Austrian Institute of Technology will share insights into the myFairShare project and the Vienna Living Lab during her presentation in the session “Discovering the Dimensions of a Just Transition” on 28 November.
The MyFairShare project will be discussed at the International Transport Forum’s 2024 Summit in Leipzig, Germany. The MyFairShare consortium members Alexandra Millonig (AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology) and Florian Lorenz have submitted an abstract “Only a focus on fair accessibility will ensure sustainable, inclusive and healthy transport systems for the research track of the conference” which will be presented in the research track of the event.
On 22 May 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Florian Lorenz will share insights from the MyFairShare project during the session “Spotlight on Research: Shaping Cities for Sustainable and Inclusive Accessibility”. See the conference programme for details on the session.
Partners form the MyFairShare consortium members from Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies as well as University of Latvia recently completed research that aimed to develop support methodology for the Driving Urban Transition (DUT) partnership.
The aim was to ensure that the knowledge gathered from ERA-NET Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (EN-UAC, 2023) projects and beyond is accessible as assistance for all stakeholders within the forthcoming Horizon Europe Partnership Program. This support aims to drive the urban transition toward a future that is both sustainable and conducive to a high quality of urban living. The team investigated a set of 15 ERA-NET Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (EN-UAC) project’ proposals, Driving Urban Transitions to a Sustainable Future Roadmap 2022 and JPI Urban Europe’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda texts. A particular focus in the analysis was on the project “Individual Mobility Budgets as a Foundation for Social and Ethical Carbon Reduction” (MyFairShare).
The findings were recently discussed at the 6th International Conference on Finance, Economics, Management and IT Business (FEMIB) in Angers, France from 28-29 April 2024.
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The MyFairShare project will be discussed at at the upcoming 17th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research with the title Transformative Travel Behaviour Research – Looking beyond Back-to-Normal.
The Austrian MyFairShare partners, together with their co-operation partners of Vienna University of Technology (aspern mobil:lab) will be presenting insight into the concept of Individual Mobility Budgets and the test case of the Vienna Living Lab as conducted within the MyFairShare project.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Vienna from14-18 July and to discuss methods and results of the MyFairShare Living Labs with you!
The MyFairShare project partners Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, University of Latvia as well as AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology recently co-authored a paper “Municipal Transport Route Planning Based on Fair Mobility Budget”. The article aims to formulate an enhanced activity modelling methodology that would aid data-driven decision-making in municipal transport route planning, while upholding the principles of travel fairness and equity. The paper builds extensively on the findings from the MyFairShare Living Lab in Jelgava, Latvia on Optimising Municipal Transport.
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In a recent blog article “Overcoming urban car dependence” MyFairShare consortium member Philipp Rode, Executive Director of LSE Cities at the London School of Economics (LSE) lays out the critical role of perceived fairness issues, something that the MyFairShare project is investigating in several Living Labs.
The article lays out how policymakers can encounter the increasing polarisation of public opinion around policies to reduce car dependency if they make sure that their policy proposals are build around fairness.
Whatever the motivation, the polarising effect of transport policy is real and becomes even greater when it can be framed as unfair, as harming disadvantaged groups or as an attack on opportunities in cities. In this regard, it is fundamentally important that progressive urban transport is not equated with a reduction in accessibility or opportunities for people.
In 2023 ECTRI, the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes is celebrating its 20th birthday.
On this occasion a special event will be held on 15 November to commemorate 20 years of achievements in sustainable and multimodal mobility research by bringing together distinguished personalities in a panel to discuss “Transforming mobility – Making research count in transport policy”. The panel will be preceded scientific speeches from prominent ECTRI experts on “How research can drive green and inclusive mobility”.
MyFairShare Lead Scientist Alexandra Millonig (AIT- Austria Institute of Technology) will give on such speech with the title “Enough is enough – Sufficiency as guiding principle for mobility behaviour change” and present ideas and first insights from the MyFairShare project.
MyFairShare insights at the Science of Cities Symposium
The Science of Cities Symposium is hosted by the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) Singapore and convenes international researchers, city, and industry leaders to share their scientific insights and methodologies on tackling urban challenges.
This year, Philipp Rode of MyFairShare project partner London Schoolof Economics – LSE will give a keynote address – as carbon-light video message – at the event and feature insights into the latest results of the MyFairShare transnational survey.
Sufficiency, Justice and Urban Transport, Philipp Rode
This keynote considers the research and policy implications of applying the sufficiency principle to urban transport. It explores “enoughness” against a backdrop of increasing carbon emissions in the transport sector, inevitable ceilings for resource intense movement, and the essential requirement of providing access to opportunities in cities. Given the relative lack of progress, increasingly polarizing political debate and urgent requirement for change, a more direct and open engagement with a sufficiency turn in urban transport is urgently needed. Most importantly, fundamental questions about a fair distribution of remaining emissions and finite street space within the transport sector must be considered. This engagement builds on the emerging field of transport equity while joining up social justice perspectives of the here and now with sustainability justice recognizing global society, future generations, and nature.
MyFairShare insights at the Science of Cities Symposium
The MyFairShare partner DLR recently submitted a paper authored by the project partners DLR and AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology for the ITS European Congress in Lisbon.
The paper “Measuring and Visualising 15-Minute-Areas for Fair CO2 Budget Distribution” introduces first results from MyFairShare to improve the understanding about how much accessibility within an area is needed for satisfying everyday activities. To achieve this, a software system for benchmarking areas has been developed. It is based on open source applications and uses data that is freely available throughout Europe. The results indicate that that even in major European cities and regions the locations of everyday actions cannot be accessed within a 15 minute travel distance for most of the population.
Best Paper Award at FEMIB 2023
MyFairShare consortium partners from Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies and University of Latvia recently presented a Conference Paper Optimizing Transport Network to Reduce Municipality Mobility Budget at the 5th International Conference on Finance, Economics, Management and IT Business (FEMIB) held in Prague – Czech Republic, April 23 – 24, 2023. The paper received the Best Paper Award on behalf of the conference’s Organizing Committee.
Best Paper Award at FEMIB 2023