Sustainable Transport in Upper Austria: Case Study for Setting up a Living Lab Concept to Accelerate Innovations

Abstract

The research team is currently working on defining a suitable path towards the design and implementation of a Living Lab for developing, testing and demonstrating innovations in sustainable transport operations. There are several examples that focus on transport and mobility, either addressing individual or freight transport. The combination of both topics is seen as a unique chance to find new ways for a sustainable transport system and mobility behavior. The region of Upper Austria is used as a research case in order to demonstrate results and findings of an applied research project, called "Mobility Lab Upper Austria. "

Living Labs for Public Sector Innovation: An Integrative Literature Review

“…An important aspect of a living lab methodology is how the interaction and collaboration between stakeholders is organized, which is evident in cases depicted by partnerships (Edwards-Schachter et al 2012;Nyström et al 2014;Äyväri and Jyrämä 2017;Schliwa and McCormick 2016;Gascó 2017). In some publications, this is conceptualized as 'the four Ps', i.e., a public-private-people partnership (Edwards-Schachter et al 2012;Veeckman et al 2013), whereas others refer to the quadruple/quintuple helix model of open innovation (Haider et al 2016;Cossetta and Palumbo 2014;Baccarne et al 2016;Keijzer-Broers et al 2015). Finally, some authors mainly refer to partnerships as cross-sectorial collaboration (Gatta et al 2017;Nesti 2017).…”