BSR Urban Mobility Events

BSR URBAN MOBILITY PLATFORM

The BSR Urban Mobility project platform supports cities and regions across the Baltic Sea Region in tackling shared urban mobility challenges by strengthening skills, knowledge and cooperation.

Urban nodes and governance

Sustainable Urban Mobility & Logistics Planning (SUMPs & SULPs)

Active mobility

Multimodal mobility hubs and urban logistics

Through 12 training and peer learning events both online and in person, the platform brings together mobility planners, public authorities and experts to exchange experiences, tools and good practices from across the region.

The events are structured around four key themes:

What's next on the calendar

Data-driven SUMPs: From fragmented data to integrated mobility systems

Modern cities do not only manage passenger transport. They must also manage the daily movement of goods, services, construction flows, waste, home deliveries and essential logistics that keep urban life functioning. Increasingly, this complexity is mediated through data that is collected, owned, shared and processed across public and private actors.

Yet today, mobility and logistics data ecosystems are highly fragmented. Passenger data, freight data, infrastructure data and land-use data often sit in separate systems, governed by different actors, standards and incentives. This fragmentation limits cities’ ability to use AI effectively, slows down innovation, creates duplication, and weakens decision-making.

At the same time, Europe is moving toward a more structured and strategic approach to data through initiatives such as the European Mobility Data Space (EMDS). This raises fundamental questions for cities: Who owns mobility data? Who can access it? Under what conditions can it be shared? And how can interoperability be ensured so that data can be used across systems, sectors and use cases? This workshop seeks to address these questions with specific examples from different cities.

Interested? Contact Aslak Celius / City of Oslo

From data to decisions: implementing SUMPs

Organised in collaboration with CERTH and POLIS

The workshop aims to explore how Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) can evolve to address Functional Urban Areas (FUAs), improve mobility data collection and strengthen the implementation phase with clear guidance on the use of collected data. The discussion will build on the updated SUMP guidelines and indicators, including emerging mobility trends, the role of integrated public transport systems and a stronger focus on integration of urban logistics as a component and consideration in SUMPs.

The workshop will also be used to validate the updated SULP guidelines (forthcoming). Special focus will be given to how data supports decision-making, multimodal public transport planning, network integration and evidence-based policy development, experimentation, and scaling of mobility innovations in complex urban systems.

POLIS – Scandria Alliance – BSR Workshop: Urban Nodes at the core of TEN-T

Organised with the Scandria Alliance and the BSR Urban Mobility Interreg project platform

This in-person workshop focuses on urban nodes and their new requirements. Two years into the revised TEN-T Regulation, the workshop brings together the POLIS Urban Nodes Taskforce and Access Working Group to take stock of where urban nodes stand in meeting their new obligations and what still needs to happen.

We will examine how cities are being integrated into TEN-T corridor governance, where multi-level cooperation is working, and where gaps in policy, capacity, and funding remain. The goal is a frank dialogue between urban nodes, national authorities, and EU policymakers to identify what support cities need, and how EU funding under the next MFF can better align with TEN-T requirements.

The session is open to everyone.

Recordings & materials

TEN-T Urban Nodes in the Baltic Sea Region — From Regulation to Implementation

This session explored how new TEN-T requirements for urban nodes translate into practical action, focusing on real challenges and solutions faced by cities and regions. It brought together participants from across the Baltic Sea region to share experiences, reflect on current progress, and exchange ideas on planning, governance, and implementation.

Presentations from the session:

EU urban mobility policy, TEN-T urban nodes – Latest developments

Insights on urban nodes across Europe, governance challenges, and project experiences

BSR Urban Mobility Survey Results

Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) Hannover Region

Oslo – Monitoring and Evaluation in Practice

Financing mechanisms: Transformation of Gdynia Central Transportation Hub

From plans to reality: governing urban mobility for resilience

Cities across the Baltic Sea Region have developed SUMPs and integrated TEN-T objectives, yet implementation often stalls. This session offered a reality check from BSR urban nodes, drawing on survey insights across different governance contexts. It examined political and governance conditions shaping implementation and identified challenges requiring cross-sectoral and multi-level cooperation, delivering policy-relevant messages for the BSR Urban Mobility Policy Framework and EUSBSR Action Plan.

A discussion paper on the session will be shared here shortly.

Urban Mobility and TEN-T Readiness — Key Insights from the Baltic Sea Region

This webinar offered mobility professionals, researchers, and representatives of local and regional authorities a comprehensive overview of current trends, gaps, and opportunities in sustainable urban mobility and logistics planning across the Baltic Sea Region, supporting evidence-based planning, policy development, and regional collaboration.

Urban Mobility and TEN-T Readiness — Key Insights from the Baltic Sea Region

Urban Mobility and TEN‑T Readiness: Key Insights from the Baltic Sea Region

Webinar on Urban Mobility & TEN‑T Readiness Key Insights from the Baltic Sea Region

All materials gathered in one place

All training materials and key outcomes from the BSR Urban Mobility events will be collected and published in the Baltic Sea Region SUMP Competence Centre. Recordings of online events, presentations, case examples and practical tools shared during the events will be made available online — allowing cities and stakeholders across the Baltic Sea Region to benefit from the results also beyond the live sessions and after the project’s lifetime.

A peer-learning network across the BSR

The BSR Urban Mobility project platform connects cities, regional authorities and policymakers in a peer learning network to support the implementation of sustainable urban mobility plans and deliver on EU goals for multimodal, zero-emission transport. BSR Urban Mobility consolidates outcomes from 17 EU projects.