Design and Assessment of Shared and Electric Mobility Hubs for an Integrated Transport System

Electric shared mobility hubs are convenient access points, offering charging infrastructure, parking spaces, and user-friendly platforms/apps for seamless booking and return of vehicles. They encourage the usage of more sustainable alternatives to private cars. The paper describes three research projects, where we designed or implemented mobility hubs. The I-SharE LIFE project aims to demonstrate the practical and economic opportunities of various service models in small to mid-sized urban areas, to facilitate the development of potential hubs as alternative to private car and the behavioral change at neighborhood level for e-mobility. The second project is represented by the Smart Sustainable District research activity, carried out at Politecnico di Milano to draft practical guidelines as a strategic and methodological support for urban transformations, to aid public decision-makers and private operators. UR-DATA - a Horizon Europe project (Twinning for Excellence in Smart and Resilient Urban Development: Advanced Data Analytics Approach) shows how actions concerning the analysis of smart and sustainable city performances, in the city of Niš (Serbia), can contribute, at local district level, to the development and planning of a potential shared mobility.