About GOLIA
About GOLIA
GOLIA is advancing the sustainable, digital and green transition with practical tools, methods and evidence-based recommendations to make transport systems more efficient, inclusive and environmentally friendly.
- While digitalisation holds great promise, it has not yet brought about a full transformation towards sustainability. Across Europe, many smart city initiatives are already using technology to reduce environmental impacts. However, governance systems often struggle to keep pace with rapid technological change, leaving a gap between innovation and implementation.
- GOLIA seeks to close this gap by developing truly transformative approaches that harness digital tools to advance sustainability in mobility.
Innovations in ICT, IoT and AI are transforming how cities manage resources and deliver mobility services such as shared transport and Mobility as a Service (MaaS). These technologies can significantly improve efficiency and sustainability, but they also raise concerns about access and fairness, as new mobility models may risk deepening existing inequalities.
GOLIA is working to align local, regional and national mobility plans with the European Green Deal and the Sustainable Development Goals. Meeting these goals and creating truly sustainable and equitable transport systems demands a coordinated and interdisciplinary approach. Strong collaboration is needed both vertically across governance levels and horizontally across sectors like climate, energy, health, logistics and education.
Participatory approaches ensure that transport systems respond to different user groups, including vulnerable populations, while fostering transparency, accountability and trust. Building an inclusive and resilient transport system requires a strong understanding of users’ diverse and changing needs. Involving citizens and stakeholders in long-term visioning and policymaking is essential to co-design mobility solutions and monitor their impact.
GOLIA foundations
GOLIA paves the way for a disruptive mobility governance and policy making approach based on the following foundations.
Inclusion
Inclusion
GOLIA adopts an inclusive approach, based on real understanding of the diverse and dynamic needs and exploring possible nudges and incentives toward more sustainable mobility choices among citizens and firms.
Democracy
Democracy
In-depth, innovative, SSH-led stakeholders consultations processes, to co-develop an adaptive, systemic, harmonised and European standardised methodology to deliver a cooperative and inclusive decision-making and governance approach.
Transformative governance
Transformative governance
Both vertical (districts, neighbourhoods, cities, metropolitan areas, regions, countries, and Europe) and horizontal (mobility departments and urban planning, education, health, tourism, etc also promoting integration of passenger and freight transport) policy coordination and alignment.
Interdisciplinarity System thinking approach
Interdisciplinarity System thinking approach
enabled by connection of dataspaces from different fields and inclusion of different competencies and expertises.
Multiobjective perspective
Multiobjective perspective
Through in-depth analysis of dynamic user needs, interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral approach and maximization of the Social Optimum.
Innovation
Innovation
Exploring how publicly-led dataspaces and AI-based tools can support system-thinking approaches , awareness, and inclusiveness in policy making and governance processes.
GOLIA’s digital assets
GO-DATA module & guide
Implementation of the GO-DATA module complete of data gathering interfaces and connection to digital assets and datasets, including guidelines to expand GO-DATA with additional use cases
GO-INFO module & guide
Implementation of the GO-INFO module complete of visualization dashboards and public engagement survey tool, including guidelines to expand GO-INFO with additional use cases
GO-KNOW module & guide
Implementation of the GO-KNOW module complete of digital assets transferability dashboard, including guidelines to expand GO-KNOW with additional use cases
GO-WISDOM module & guide
Implementation of the GO-WISDOM module completes of SOMI-driven policy planning, including guidelines to expand GO-INFO with additional use cases