Pilsen

Pilsen

Pilsen, Czechia

Establishing a transformative vision leveraging mobility innovation opportunities.

  • Pilsen is a highly technologically advanced small city with a population of 182,000 inhabitants, urban node of the Rhine – Danube TEN-T corridor, with a strong focus on high-value innovative research and development projects.
  • The city has prepared a testing ground for CCAVs, made possible by the fastest 5G network now available in almost two-thirds of Pilsen. Pilsen also has a sophisticated Digital Twin infrastructure with multiple modules that gather various types of data – both technical and social.
  • However, there is still a lack of complex and data-based planning across different sectors and policy areas that influence each other. Furthermore, these initiatives mainly concerned the City of Pilsen.

The goal of the city is to connect these separate data streams into a cohesive strategy and to extend their application to the Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) area, which spans a 30 km radius around the city, including surrounding villages.

In this regard the ITI strategy identifies 6 key strategic areas for sustainable territorial developments, where integrated approach is needed; below some criticalities identified within the strategic areas are presented:

Innovation

Innovation

There is a need to apply the results and outputs of R&D activities, leveraging a highly qualified workforce to add greater value to the local economy

Education

Education

Disconnection between education areas selected by students and needs of the labour market; early departure from the education system (financial motivation)

Economy

Economy

The fundamental problem is the dominantly one-sided dependence of the economy on the automobile industry, i.e. the low degree of diversification of the economy

Environnement

Environnement

There is a need to implement measures and systems to improve energy efficiency and reduce overall energy consumption.

Mobility

Mobility

Need to introduce new technologies for management and coordination of all types of transport (e.g.by applying R&D results); Complementing the existing transport infrastructure (cycling, walking) with the possibility of connecting to other modes of transport.

Sustainable development of cities and towns

Sustainable development of cities and towns

Insufficient touristic infrastructure and connectivity (public tourism infrastructure, tourist routes, trails, circuits, communication technology, information centres, etc.) causing, among other things, an uneven distribution of visitors in the Pilsen agglomeration; revitalize public spaces with a focus on increasing the leisure potential and making the living conditions of residents more attractive (parks, squares, city streets, street spaces, housing estates, etc.); Support of public facilities for municipalities in rural areas, including municipalities suburban countryside.

Mobility challenge

How to reshape urbane spaces to enhance safety, in compliance with the new regulatory frameworks in-force? What is the impact on safety and MaaR?
How and how much shared mobility (pax and freight) hubs can support this goal? Which are the potential benefits of dynamic usage or urban spaces?

Governance challenge

Reshaping urban spaces and implement mobility hubs in UNESCO areas (land-scape area).
Identify the most effective synergies with the new reform of the Road Code, New UMF and TEN-T revision to improve road safety.

Objectives

Evaluate the impact of re-shaped urban spaces, in connection with mobility hubs on different city users’ groups Inclusive policy making approach

(ENGAGEMOVE)

Firenze will set up a participatory approach involving the already established Citizens Assembly and specific stakeholders’ groups by means of storytelling approaches, particularly suited to addressing complex sustainability transitions within transport and mobility. It facilitates inclusive and empathetic dialogue and interaction between different knowledges and perspectives; creates mutual learning and collaboration across disciplines, sectors, and different users; contributes to conflict resolution and agenda-setting, which can support collective action; gives a platform to diverse and often unheard voices, resulting in rich data sets

Digital support (GO-X module):

GO-WISDOM will support Florence in evaluating how the co-designed and reshaped urban spaces and mobility hubs impact on MaaR from different users’ perspective, considering the newly introduced Road Code reform and maximising the SOMI

Stakeholders involved

Institutional: Metropolitan area and Region; big mobility demand generators: hospitality industry; service providers: logistics service providers; wider groups:
Citizens Assembly of city users (already established) and local associations; minorities: disabled, young and senior citizens

GOLIA footprint

PUMS update; contribution to KPIs and SUMI; freight and passenger mobility assets integration.

Pilot sites