Co-creation of Local Mobility Solutions: Lessons from the Mobility Lab in Hamburg-Altona

Co-creating solutions to local mobility and transport challenges for the enhancement of health and wellbeing in an area of socioeconomic disadvantage

“…However, there is an inherent dissonance in co-creating at the micro-level in order to scale up to a wider geography, since some of the benefits of the approach are in developing a tailored solution for the given community and gaining buy-in from that community; these benefits can easily be lost in the scale-up process. Therefore, as in the case of Hamburg, a partner city on the C4P project, for a wider geographical area to be addressed, a different application of the POTM methodology may be beneficial (Tatum et al, 2020).…”

“…It is evident that the specific deployment of POTM processes, the demographics, and transport and mobility challenges are highly context specific. For example, a study on the C4P POTM in Hamburg, in a context with differing demographics and mobility challenges compared to those investigated in Oxford, identified interactivity and continuity of participation as challenges to the POTM methodology, but concluded that despite these limitations the methodology contributed to citizen empowerment in local mobility (Tatum et al, 2020).…”

Co-Creation for Sustainability

“…They have been used in a range of areas related to the SDGs, from aging and long-term care to energy conservation and tourism. For example, the Altona Mobility Lab focuses on sustainable mobility in Hamburg, Germany (Tatum et al, 2020).…”