FEDORA has published Deliverable D2.2 – Living Labs Setup, Spaces Definition and Evaluation Models, establishing an important foundation for how the project will develop and test new approaches to multimodal transport management together with the people and organisations who use and operate transport systems every day.
At the heart of the deliverable is FEDORA’s Living Lab approach. During the first year of the project, stakeholders across all six pilot cities took part in workshops to identify local challenges, needs and priorities. These discussions brought together a broad range of perspectives and helped the project understand what different cities need from new mobility solutions—including operational requirements, data availability and governance considerations.
The co-creation process also helped identify and initially validate use cases for each pilot site. By connecting these local challenges with FEDORA’s planned innovations, the project can ensure that the technologies being developed respond to real-world problems rather than being designed in isolation.
A second part of the deliverable defines the FEDORA spaces and evaluation framework. These provide a common structure for bringing together the project’s different technologies and for assessing how well they perform. The work also identifies links and dependencies between the six pilots, helping partners coordinate their activities as the project moves towards its demonstration phase.
Importantly, the Living Lab process is not simply about testing finished technologies. It creates an ongoing dialogue between researchers, transport operators, public authorities and other stakeholders, allowing solutions to be refined as practical challenges emerge.
With D2.2, FEDORA has therefore established the methodological and operational basis for its second year—ensuring that the project’s innovations remain grounded in the needs and realities of the cities where they will ultimately be demonstrated.