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4I4U
Changes at "Activity "Public Realm: Raise awareness on urban mobility issues""
Description (English)
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Public Realm activity in 4I4U: "Actions to raise awareness on urban mobility issues"
Participants: 90 participants of the Hackathon “Solving city problems regarding urban mobility”, around 3000 UPC students and around 100 anonymous citizens
Responsibles: Mónica Aguilar, Alexandra Hoesli
Assistants: Alberto Bazán, Adrian Catalin, Jose Manuel Ordoñez
Data: 1st November 2022 to 28th February 2022
Location: Plaça Telecos, Campus Nord, UPC
The project 4I4U aims to engage young citizens on the mobility of the future, empowering them to become actors for change who participate in the transformation of their cities. We want to encourage them to contribute to improving urban mobility to make cities more livable. We designed two actions carried out in various buildings and prominent spaces on the Campus Nord (UPC) where UPC students, employees, visitors and professors usually spend their time or pass by.
The first two activities consist on small-scale and temporary changes of the physical environment of the Plaça Telecos in the Campus Nord at the UPC. The low-cost intervention, though, pretend to be a first step to raise long-term awareness regarding urban mobility issues and encourage use of nearby sustainable transportation options around the Campus.
The two last activities consist on two online forms that helped us to achieve a twofold objective: on the one hand we give informative pills about main issues related to urban mobility; and on the other hand we collect the opinion of the participants about their mobility habits and their personal experience about the problems observed in urban mobility.
Action 1: 400 adhesives arranged along the Campus Nord (UPC)
Taking advantage of the celebration of our Hackathon “Solving city problems regarding urban mobility” on November 16th, and the coincidence with the UN Conference on climate change (COP27, from November 6th to 18th), and knowing that the UPC is very involved, we have completed this action in collaboration with UPC Sostenibilitat, and the UPC kindly allowed us to carry out this action at the UPC facilities.
This way, we count on the 90 participants of the Hackathon, and during 5 minutes they helped us to paste the adhesives following a map, so that each student should quickly paste 1 or 2 adhesives in a given location.
This is the result of the activity, it was a lot of fun, and many people who passed by asked us about the action and the project. In addition, it was also a kind of very useful icebreaker action at the beginning of the Hackathon.
We invite you to watch the group shout of the slogan 4I4U, as starting point of the Hackathon.
Additionally, we placed 200 stickers on the walls of about 30 toilets in buildings A1 to A6 that house the Campus Nord classrooms.
These adhesives include informative pills about urban mobility problems (focusing on pollution and derived serious problems) and we invite people to participate with the 4I4U project by filling in a Form to help improving urban mobility in Barcelona.
Action 2: Roll-Up "Project 4I4U-EIT Urban Mobility"
We prepared 3 roll-up to show them during the Hackathon. Afterwards, we placed them in three very representative places on the Campus Nord, where students pass through: the library, the cafeteria and the classroom corridor. The UPC kindly authorized us to have them there till the end of February 2023. In the roll-up we show all the logos of the participant entities in the 4I4U project and the QR code to invite people to fill in our anonymous form "Helping to improve Urban Mobility in Barcelona".
Action 3: Form "UPC Sustainable Mobility - 4I4U Project"
Additionally, we prepared two forms to gather information about mobility habits in Barcelona. The 1st form was sent to the UPC students of the Master in Urban Mobility of the Urban Mobility Master School-EIT Urban Mobility, and to the participanst of our Activity "UPC Sustainable Mobility". We have 23 answers, being 70% aged 18-25 and 30% aged 26-35; 61% male and 39% female.
Most of them either use public transport (mainly metro and bus) or walk, and just a few use car, motorbike, e-scooter or e-bicycle.
Action 4: Form "Helping to improve Urban Mobility in Barcelona"
So far (9th Dec 2022), we have received 80 answers in the Form with very interesting comments, suggestions and reports about urban mobility issues and personal experience about urban mobility in Barcelona. We have disseminated the Form using several means: roll-up, adhesives in the walls of the Campus Nord, email and Tweeter. The age range of the participants is mostly 16-25 (53,2%), being 62,3% male and 37,7% female.
1. How could we decrease the number of vehicles in Barcelona?
- 41% chose "Car pool or ride sharing instead of driving alone".
- 87% chose "Improve public transport, for instance Rodalies in the Barcelona metropolitan area or the FGC train network".
- 54% chose "Consider teleworking or staggering your work hours to avoid jams, wasting gas and pollution during peak rush hours".
- 68% chose "Walk, ride a bike or use micromobility (e-scooter...) instead of your private car/motorbike".
Other interesting open suggestions where:
- Make car itineraries more difficult, while improving public transport, bikes and PLEVs (Personal Light Electric Vehicles).
- Change traffic rules to enforce speed and acceleration limits and street design to shorten distances for walking and cycling. This will allow to change traffic signals to be low speed vehicles friendly and discourage the use of private vehicle based on exceeding speed/acceleration limits.
- More “Superilles” and other traffic limitations during certain days of the week.
- Improve infrastructure (safe and wide bike lanes). Incentives to use public transport, that should be efficient, fast, with a correct frequency and above all, governments must invest in maintenance (which is not happening now).
- Vehicle usage is determined by the maximum capacity of the roads. The only real way to limit it, is reducing road capacity.
- Discouraging car use by reducing lanes and restricting some areas only for resident. Urban toll is an option as well.
- Reducing the number of vehicles in the interior of Barcelona requires the creation of vehicle parking areas on the city limits, so that those who come from outside can park and access the interior by public transport.
- Tax use of car inside the city for non essential vehicules (as London example).
- Make the electric chargers free of charge to estimulate these cars in front of gasoline cars.
2. How could we encourage people to use public transport more?
- 73% chose "Increasing the offer and frequency of public transport services".
- 49% chose "Make public transport more cost-effective".
- 14% chose "Increasing fuel prices to disincentivize driving".
- 36% chose "Discourage driving by closing streets to cars, and increasing parking prices".
- 37% chose "Provide discounted bike-share or car-share memberships".
- 67 % chose "Make transport cheaper for employees/students".
- 56% chose "Promote active transport (biking, walking, jogging...) with available infrastructure at the workplace/University (showers, lockers, bike rooms...)".
Other interesting open suggestions where:
- Promote multimobility (eg. E-Scooter + Metro), use collected data to check the increase of passengers during the half discounts of tickets and set a new price when the offer is gone, based on n°tickets sold per price (between actual and previous).
- Companies should publish an employee's mobility balance and pay employees for 0 emissions commuting and be taxed by employees emissions.
- increasing parking prices and fuel prices will not be efficient because it will allow people with more money to use car, but we need to be all sensitive to the issues of mobility, that is why increasing the offer of public transports and micro mobility is great.
- Free public transport for students, so that they do not take the moto. Also, companies should promote colective transport.
- The whole neighbor cities (metropolitan area) should implement bike lanes to allow connectivity between them.
- Make public transportation free. Improve public transportation infrastructure outside of main metropolitan areas. Enforce safe bike parking zones, get rid of cars in cities. Re-instruct pedestrians to learn how to live around bikes.
- improve infrastructure for cyclists.
- Make big parking lots in the outskirts of the city to leave the car and reach the downtown in public transportation.
3. Did you know you are exposed to dangerous pollutants while moving around Barcelona? Check the box if you knew it. (PM=Particulate Matter)
- PM10 (diameter < 10 micron) float in the air and easily penetrate the human body.
- PM2.5 (diameter < 2.5 micron) penetrate our respiratory system and the smallest particles can enter our blood vessels, lungs and heart.
- PM1 (diameter < 1 micron) can contribute to the development of deadly diseases such as heart attacks, lung cancer, and other serious diseases that lead to premature death.
- NO2 causes respiratory problems and respiratory infections after longer exposure.
- CO2 cause headache, nausea, dizziness and repeated long-term exposure can lead to heart disease.
You can read more in aqicn.org and www.iqair.com.
- Only 54% knew that 20.8% of PM10 and PM2.5 comes from traffic.
- 64% knew that PM10 produce eye & throat irritation, coughing and asthma.
- 64% knew that PM2.5 produce aggravated asthma andchronic respiratory diseases.
- Only 44% knew that the concentration of PM2.5 in Barcelona (9 microgram/m3) is currently 1.8 times higher than the annual WHO air quality guideline value (5 microgram/m3).
4. Do you have any smart idea how the mobility and pollution issues in cities could be improved?
5. Have you observed any difficulty in moving around Barcelona?
6. Do you have proposals of a service offered to get home safely at night? This is a worrying problem especially for women. More info: Women in Urban Mobility - EIT Urban Mobility and YourWayHome
- Improve night demand stops for vulnerable people (women, LGBTI, autistic...)
- On demand bus from places with night activity (downtown, Paral·lel, Vila Olímpica) to the rest of the city.
- Calling service, coorporations with micromobility providers.
- maybe an app that can connect people safely and can help them walk together.
- Micro-mobility
- Lightning improvement, more cameras, more surveillance personnel, make it easier to report these kind of acts, make more campaigns to show how ridiculous this acts are ...
- Increasing Surveillance cameras and improving street lighting
- Free taxi twice a year or more for women
- More presencial surveillance, taxi discounts
- More night buses and police and more condenas for bad people
- Aquest és un problema greu ... la tecnologia ens hauria d'ajudar, però sense l'element més bàsic, EDUCACIÓ, ho tenim difícil.
- la liluminacion de las calles por el hecho de reducir la contaminación lumínica o el ahorro energètico se torna en algunas zonas de via publica zones muy poco iluminadas, sobretodo en sectores residenciales . a veces pasar por un parque en pleno invierno a las seis de la tarde, es que da miedo.
- Intelligent street monitoring System
- More Police
- APP for smartphone to bring safe women to her home at night
- Going to the roots of the problem: increase people values and education. More illuminated streets.
- more nitbuses, maybe smaller (e.g., electric).
- Have night buses stop at every stop
- Increase the illumination and put cameras in certain points.
- More security persons at the metro stations
- Educating men not to scare and harass women, empowering women to go out.
7. Do you think that actions like this to create awareness in the Society should be done more frequently? 97% said Yes.
Action 5: Suggestion of installing a bicicling service in the campus. Additionally, we have proposed to the Bicing company the installation of a bicing stop inside the Campus. In any case, there are already four very close bicing stops (4 to 6 min walk) around the Campus, although a bicing stop on the Campus would further encourage UPC students to use them. Also, we have suggested UPC Sostenible that they also request the new bicing stop from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) itself.
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Public Realm activity in 4I4U: "Actions to raise awareness on urban mobility issues"
Participants: 90 participants of the Hackathon “Solving city problems regarding urban mobility”, around 3000 UPC students and around 100 anonymous citizens
Responsibles: Mónica Aguilar, Alexandra Hoesli
Assistants: Alberto Bazán, Adrian Catalin, Jose Manuel Ordoñez
Data: 1st November 2022 to 28th February 2022
Location: Plaça Telecos, Campus Nord, UPC
The project 4I4U aims to engage young citizens on the mobility of the future, empowering them to become actors for change who participate in the transformation of their cities. We want to encourage them to contribute to improving urban mobility to make cities more livable. We designed two actions carried out in various buildings and prominent spaces on the Campus Nord (UPC) where UPC students, employees, visitors and professors usually spend their time or pass by.
The first two activities consist on small-scale and temporary changes of the physical environment of the Plaça Telecos in the Campus Nord at the UPC. The low-cost intervention, though, pretend to be a first step to raise long-term awareness regarding urban mobility issues and encourage use of nearby sustainable transportation options around the Campus.
The two last activities consist on two online forms that helped us to achieve a twofold objective: on the one hand we give informative pills about main issues related to urban mobility; and on the other hand we collect the opinion of the participants about their mobility habits and their personal experience about the problems observed in urban mobility.
Action 1: 400 adhesives arranged along the Campus Nord (UPC)
Taking advantage of the celebration of our Hackathon “Solving city problems regarding urban mobility” on November 16th, and the coincidence with the UN Conference on climate change (COP27, from November 6th to 18th), and knowing that the UPC is very involved, we have completed this action in collaboration with UPC Sostenibilitat, and the UPC kindly allowed us to carry out this action at the UPC facilities.
This way, we count on the 90 participants of the Hackathon, and during 5 minutes they helped us to paste the adhesives following a map, so that each student should quickly paste 1 or 2 adhesives in a given location.
This is the result of the activity, it was a lot of fun, and many people who passed by asked us about the action and the project. In addition, it was also a kind of very useful icebreaker action at the beginning of the Hackathon.
We invite you to watch the group shout of the slogan 4I4U, as starting point of the Hackathon.
Additionally, we placed 200 stickers on the walls of about 30 toilets in buildings A1 to A6 that house the Campus Nord classrooms.
These adhesives include informative pills about urban mobility problems (focusing on pollution and derived serious problems) and we invite people to participate with the 4I4U project by filling in a Form to help improving urban mobility in Barcelona.
Action 2: Roll-Up "Project 4I4U-EIT Urban Mobility"
We prepared 3 roll-up to show them during the Hackathon. Afterwards, we placed them in three very representative places on the Campus Nord, where students pass through: the library, the cafeteria and the classroom corridor. The UPC kindly authorized us to have them there till the end of February 2023. In the roll-up we show all the logos of the participant entities in the 4I4U project and the QR code to invite people to fill in our anonymous form "Helping to improve Urban Mobility in Barcelona".
Action 3: Form "UPC Sustainable Mobility - 4I4U Project"
Additionally, we prepared two forms to gather information about mobility habits in Barcelona. The 1st form was sent to the UPC students of the Master in Urban Mobility of the Urban Mobility Master School-EIT Urban Mobility, and to the participanst of our Activity "UPC Sustainable Mobility". We have 23 answers, being 70% from 18 to 25 years old and 30% from 26 to 35 years old; 61% are male and 39% are female.
Most of them (around 80%) either use public transport (mainly metro and bus) or walk, and just a few (around 9%) use car, motorbike, e-scooter or e-bicycle. Quite of them (around 25%) use e-bicycle, tram or run.
Action 4: Form "Helping to improve Urban Mobility in Barcelona"
So far (9th Dec 2022), we have received 80 answers in the Form with very interesting comments, suggestions and reports about urban mobility issues and personal experience about urban mobility in Barcelona. We have disseminated the Form using several means: roll-up, adhesives in the walls of the Campus Nord, email and Tweeter. The age range of the participants is mostly 16-25 (53,2%), being 62,3% male and 37,7% female.
1. How could we decrease the number of vehicles in Barcelona?
- 41% chose "Car pool or ride sharing instead of driving alone".
- 87% chose "Improve public transport, for instance Rodalies in the Barcelona metropolitan area or the FGC train network".
- 54% chose "Consider teleworking or staggering your work hours to avoid jams, wasting gas and pollution during peak rush hours".
- 68% chose "Walk, ride a bike or use micromobility (e-scooter...) instead of your private car/motorbike".
Other interesting open suggestions where:
- Reducing the number of vehicles in the interior of Barcelona requires the creation of vehicle parking areas on the city limits, so that those who come from outside can park and access the interior by public transport.
- Make car itineraries more difficult, while improving public transport, bikes and PLEVs (Personal Light Electric Vehicles).
- Change traffic rules to enforce speed and acceleration limits and street design to shorten distances for walking and cycling. This will allow to change traffic signals to be low speed vehicles friendly and discourage the use of private vehicle based on exceeding speed/acceleration limits.
- More “Superilles” and other traffic limitations during certain days of the week.
- Improve infrastructure (safe and wide bike lanes). Incentives to use public transport, which should be efficient and fast, with a good frequency; governments must invest more in maintenance.
- Vehicle usage is determined by the maximum capacity of the roads. The only real way to limit it, is reducing road capacity.
- Discouraging car use by reducing lanes and restricting some areas only for resident. Urban toll is an option as well.
- Tax use of car inside the city for non essential vehicules (as London example).
- Make the electric chargers free of charge to estimulate these cars in front of gasoline cars.
2. How could we encourage people to use public transport more?
- 73% chose "Increasing the offer and frequency of public transport services".
- 49% chose "Make public transport more cost-effective".
- 14% chose "Increasing fuel prices to disincentivize driving".
- 36% chose "Discourage driving by closing streets to cars, and increasing parking prices".
- 37% chose "Provide discounted bike-share or car-share memberships".
- 67 % chose "Make transport cheaper for employees/students".
- 56% chose "Promote active transport (biking, walking, jogging...) with available infrastructure at the workplace/University (showers, lockers, bike rooms...)".
Other interesting open suggestions where:
- Make big parking lots in the outskirts of the city to leave the car and reach the downtown in public transportation.
- Make public transportation free. Improve public transportation infrastructure outside of main metropolitan areas. Enforce safe bike parking zones, get rid of cars in cities. Improve infrastructure for cyclists. Re-instruct pedestrians to learn how to live around bikes.
- Promote multimobility (e.g., e-scooter + metro).
- Increasing parking prices and fuel prices will not be efficient because it will allow people with more money to use car, but we need to be all sensitive to the issues of mobility, that is why increasing the offer of public transports and micro mobility is great.
- Free public transport for students, so that they do not use motorbikes. Also, companies should promote colective transport.
- Companies should publish an employee's mobility balance, pay employees for 0 emissions commuting, and be taxed by employees emissions.
- The whole neighboring cities (metropolitan area) should implement bike lanes to allow connectivity between them.
- Use collected data to check the increase of passengers during the current half discounts of tickets and set a new price when the offer is finished, based on n° tickets sold per price (between current and previous).
3. Did you know you are exposed to dangerous pollutants while moving around Barcelona? Check the box if you knew it. (PM=Particulate Matter). You can read more in aqicn.org and www.iqair.com.
- PM10 (diameter < 10 micron) float in the air and easily penetrate the human body.
- PM2.5 (diameter < 2.5 micron) penetrate our respiratory system and the smallest particles can enter our blood vessels, lungs and heart.
- PM1 (diameter < 1 micron) can contribute to the development of deadly diseases such as heart attacks, lung cancer, and other serious diseases that lead to premature death.
- NO2 causes respiratory problems and respiratory infections after longer exposure.
- CO2 cause headache, nausea, dizziness and repeated long-term exposure can lead to heart disease.
The responses show that only about half of the participants were aware of the health effects of these dangerous pollutants:
- Only 54% knew that 20.8% of PM10 and PM2.5 comes from traffic.
- 64% knew that PM10 produce eye & throat irritation, coughing and asthma.
- 64% knew that PM2.5 produce aggravated asthma andchronic respiratory diseases.
- Only 44% knew that the concentration of PM2.5 in Barcelona (9 microgram/m3) is currently 1.8 times higher than the annual WHO air quality guideline value (5 microgram/m3).
4. Do you have any smart idea how the mobility and pollution issues in cities could be improved?
5. Have you observed any difficulty in moving around Barcelona?
6. Do you have proposals of a service offered to get home safely at night? This is a worrying problem especially for women. More info: Women in Urban Mobility - EIT Urban Mobility and YourWayHome
- Improve night demand stops for vulnerable people (women, LGBTI, autistic...)
- On demand bus from places with night activity (downtown, Paral·lel, Vila Olímpica) to the rest of the city.
- Calling service, coorporations with micromobility providers.
- maybe an app that can connect people safely and can help them walk together.
- Micro-mobility
- Lightning improvement, more cameras, more surveillance personnel, make it easier to report these kind of acts, make more campaigns to show how ridiculous this acts are ...
- Increasing Surveillance cameras and improving street lighting
- Free taxi twice a year or more for women
- More presencial surveillance, taxi discounts
- More night buses and police and more condenas for bad people
- Aquest és un problema greu ... la tecnologia ens hauria d'ajudar, però sense l'element més bàsic, EDUCACIÓ, ho tenim difícil.
- la liluminacion de las calles por el hecho de reducir la contaminación lumínica o el ahorro energètico se torna en algunas zonas de via publica zones muy poco iluminadas, sobretodo en sectores residenciales . a veces pasar por un parque en pleno invierno a las seis de la tarde, es que da miedo.
- Intelligent street monitoring System
- More Police
- APP for smartphone to bring safe women to her home at night
- Going to the roots of the problem: increase people values and education. More illuminated streets.
- more nitbuses, maybe smaller (e.g., electric).
- Have night buses stop at every stop
- Increase the illumination and put cameras in certain points.
- More security persons at the metro stations
- Educating men not to scare and harass women, empowering women to go out.
7. Do you think that actions like this to create awareness in the Society should be done more frequently? 97% said Yes.
Action 5: Suggestion of installing a bicicling service in the campus. Additionally, we have proposed to the Bicing company the installation of a bicing stop inside the Campus. In any case, there are already four very close bicing stops (4 to 6 min walk) around the Campus, although a bicing stop on the Campus would further encourage UPC students to use them. Also, we have suggested UPC Sostenible that they also request the new bicing stop from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) itself.
