About UPPER
UPPER – Unleashing the Potential of Public Transport in Europe – is a Horizon Europe project running from January 2023 to December 2026.
UPPER aims to strengthen the role of public transport as the cornerstone of sustainable and innovative mobility. The project will implement a combination of measures looking to push people out of private cars and to pull them closer to public transport in cities across Europe.
UPPER will work with 10 cities and regions:
Valencia, Rome, Versailles Grand Parc – Île de France, Oslo, Mannheim, Lisbon, Leuven, Budapest, Thessaloniki and Hannover region.
Valencia
Rome
Versailles Grand Parc – Ile de France
Oslo
Mannheim
Lisbon
Leuven
Budapest
Thessaloniki
Hannover region
Key milestones
of the UPPER journey will be
increasing
public transport uptake
by over 30%
increasing
user satisfaction
by over 25%
without leaving anyone behind.
Facts & figures
partners
months
(January 2023 – December 2026)
budget
Coordinated by UITP (International Association of Public Transport)
At an operational level, UPPER will implement over 80 measures and act on five innovation models to positively influence users’ choices:
Mindset and culture
Urban mobility planning
Mobility services ecosystem
Road network management
Democratic governance
The project will adopt an integrated and holistic approach to:
- Ease the cooperation among authorities and operators
- Offer a physical and digital environment to test the measures
- Update the existing Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs)
- Optimise the public transport offer, in line with user needs and patterns
- Seek users’ involvement in the overall mobility decision chain
- Encourage behavioural change in favour of public transport uptake
- Achieve an attractive, efficient, reliable, safe, inclusive and affordable public transport system, as outlined in the Mobility as a Right (MaaR) concept
About CIVITAS
Advancing knowledge and practice for sustainable urban mobility.
CIVITAS projects span three types, which systematically feed into and complement each other. Read more about these and access the pages of ongoing and past projects below. Current CIVITAS projects are funded under the EU’s Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe’s Research and Innovation programmes.
Ongoing projects
About SPINE
SPINE aims to accelerate progress towards climate neutrality by integrating public transport systems with new mobility services, sharing schemes, active transport modes, and micromobility.
Discover more at www.spine-project.eu