Sector
Public transport, active mobility, freight and logistics, traffic management, charging infrastructure and multimodal interchange.
Pipeline
What European cities are preparing in this sector, with stage, investment and procurement window.
Tirana Albania
DEMOMotorisation is rising faster than the road network can absorb, and the city has no consolidated mobility plan to prioritise against.
Porto Portugal
DEMODepot charging capacity limits how many diesel buses can be replaced in each annual tranche.
Brno Czechia
DEMOA district of 30,000 residents built over two decades has no rail connection to the centre.
Gdansk Poland
DEMOCycle infrastructure exists but is fragmented, and usage collapses in winter because the network is cleared last.
Tartu Estonia
DEMOEach mobility operator publishes data in its own format, so the city cannot see the network as a whole.
Eindhoven Netherlands
DEMOKerb space was allocated by historic designation, with no data on how it was actually used.
Funding
Calls whose scope covers this sector, with the ESCA assessment of what each instrument suits.
Large capital instrument tied to the TEN-T urban node obligations. Relevant to a limited set of cities, decisive for those.
Consortium instrument for cities that already have a delivery commitment and want to de-risk an integrated package rather than fund a single technology.
Funds learning and policy change rather than infrastructure. Useful where the obstacle is the local rulebook, not the capital.
Intelligence
Annual assessment of what European cities are preparing, what is funding it, and where preparation capacity is the binding constraint rather than capital.
What changed when the city stopped allocating kerb space by historic designation and started allocating it by recorded use.
Network
Listed by category. Membership is a relationship with ESCA and implies no endorsement of any organisation.
Austria
Financing institution active in central and south-eastern Europe.
Scope of the partnership Support for the Accession Cities preparation programme. The partnership covers programme funding and technical input. It confers no role in ESCA governance, no influence over the project pipeline and no preferential position in any procurement.
Belgium
Research consortium contributing method and peer review to ESCA Intelligence.
Scope of the partnership Joint method development and peer review of ESCA reports. No financial relationship in either direction.
Netherlands
Member city. Publishes kerb use data used across the network.
Estonia
Member city. Runs the open mobility data standard pilot.
France
Public transport vehicles and depot infrastructure. Industry member.
Urban Mobility & Transport
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