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SOLUTIONSplus transformative Living Labs

February 2023

SOLUTIONSplus Partners

Start-up Brochure

October 2021

Elisa Todesco, ERTICO, Carmela Canonico, ERTICO, Edmund Teko, UEMI, Judith Adem Owigar, UN-Habitat Emily Martin, UEMI, Shritu Shrestha, Wuppertal Institute Alvin Mejia, Wuppertal Institute, Maria Rosa Munoz, Wuppertal Institute Juan Carriquiry, UEMI

User Needs Assessment

January 2021

Dar es Salaam, Hamburg, Hanoi, Kathmandu, Kigali, Montevideo, Pasig, Quito

Mirko Goletz (DLR), Jacqueline Senyagwa (UEMI), Edmund Teko (UEMI), Shauri Shau (ITDP), Shritu Shrestha (Wuppertal Institute) and George Panagakos (Technical University of Denmark)

Project Brochure

October 2020

Oliver Lah, Alvin Mejia

January 2023

SOLUTIONSplus Dar es Salaam - E-bajajs Feasibility Assessment Report

Collecting data and views from transport providers: a critical step in the SOLUTIONSplus e-bajaj pilot in Dar es Salaam
Collecting data on transport patterns prior to a transition to electric mobility is a fundamental step to ensure feasibility, acceptability and long-term sustainability. It is not only essential to select an electric vehicle and charging strategy and equipment that correspond to usage and parking patterns, to design a transition that is financially and technically feasible but first and foremost to integrate the needs and the views of transport providers in this transition. To that aim, the SOLUTIONSplus team in Dar es Salaam conducted a feasibility assessment to prepare the electrification of three-wheeled vehicles (“bajajs”) currently providing BRT feeder services. 

November 2022

Last Mile connectivity - Dar es Salaam

Authors: Philipp Misselwitz, Jakub Galuszka, Oliver Lah, Maram Ismail, Carolina Moreno Londono, Hannes Steinhauer

The methodological thinking consists of 6 stages of research: data collection, data evaluation and filtering, urban holistic thinking, planning and design system; planning policies and strategies; to finally position and spatially apply all the design interventions in the existing BRT terminals with adoption of 3-E-Wheelers as low carbon effective last-mile connectivity solutions. 

September 2022

Policy Advice Paper: Electric bicycles in Rwanda

Authors: Emilie Martin, Christopher Kost, Janene Tuniz, Dominique Breuil, Kennedy Wamukuru, Daniel Munene, Moise Bitangaza, Gashaw Aberra, Remy Ruberambuga

Rwanda is a frontrunner in supporting low-carbon transport, specifically through innovations in transport electrification and active mobility (walking and cycling). The National Environment and Climate Change Policy stresses green mobility and the need to strengthen low- carbon transport systems. In its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), the Government of Rwanda identified that the use of electric vehicles can help reduce energy-related carbon emissions by 9 per cent by 2030. It also recognised non-motorised transport lanes as a key mitigation measure. Lastly, the 2021 National Transport Policy and Strategy for Rwanda states that the introduction of electric mobility should be accompanied by measures facilitating a shift from personal motor vehicles to walking, cycling, and public transport.

July 2022

SolutionsPlus Dar es Salaam: Data Collection of ICE three-wheelers - Intermediate Report

The SOLUTIONSPlus demonstration action in Dar Es Salaam aims to integrate electric three wheelers (hereafter “e-bajajs”) as feeder services to the Dar es Salaam’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system.

 

To prepare the implementation of those vehicles, the SOLUTIONSPlus team has worked on a feasibility assessment including four components:

  • surveys assessing characteristics of current international combustion engine (ICE) bajajs,

  • a user and training needs assessment,

  • a regulatory framework assessment, and

  • an international and local market analysis of electric three-wheelers.

May 2022

Integration is key: the role of electric mobility for low-carbon and sustainable cities

 

Transport electrification can simultaneously contribute to sustainable urban mobility by enhancing vehicle energy efficiency and supporting the shift towards public transport and active mobility. Electric mobility expands the mobility options in our cities, with a range of lightweight, new electric vehicles including electric bicycles and kick e-scooters which can act as a catalyst for behavioural change. Proactively integrating these small electric vehicles as feeders into mass transit can promote the shift from private cars and bolster the role of public transport as the backbone of the urban mobility system. In addition, electrification can also catalyse investments in clean public transport and new bus fleets, which, in turn, can raise the attractivity of public transport through modern and more silent vehicles.

January 2022

The Other Side of the (Policy) Coin: Analysing Exnovation Policies for the Urban Mobility Transition in Eight Cities around the Globe

Gaaf, L.; Weland, S.; Lah, O.; Martin, E.; Mejia, A.; Munoz Barriaga, M. R.; Nguyen, H. T. T.; Teko, E.; Shrestha, S. 

January 2022

East Africa´s Policy and Stakeholder Integration of Informal Operators in Electric Mobility Transition - Kigali, Nairobi, Kisumu and Dar es Salaam

Jakub Ggaluszka, Emilie Martin, Alphonse Nkurrunziza, Judith Achieng Oginga, Jacqueline Senyagwa, Edmund Teko, Oliver Lah

January 2022

Policy Advice Paper
Electric Vehicles Charging Infrastructure Kigali Demonstration Action


Gerard Barris, Guillem badia, Santiago Obiols, Bernat Serra, Edwin Bestebreurtje, Floris Jousma, Jyoti Prasad Painuly, Wim Elshout, Vedaste Mazimpaka, Christopher Kost, Emilie Martin, Moise Bitangaza, Judith Oginga Martins, Edmund Teko, Oliver Lah, Judith Anne Adem Owingar, Amos Mwangi, Alexander Koerner, Yeonju Jeong

January 2022

Know the air you breathe

Mapping air quality in Kigali


Air pollution already causes 7 million premature deaths every year, according to the World Health Organisation. With the predicted rise in population and rapid motorisation rates in many low- and middle-income cities, an urban health crisis is anticipated if no action to lower pollution levels is taken.

Papers

Co-created by SOLUTIONSplus

2022

Evaluation model for public transport system in Latin American cities in the contect of the NUMPS in Uruguay and Ecuador

Author: M.Sc. Alexandra Velasco

2022

Economic viability for electric buses in two corridors in Quito and Montevideo

Author: M.Sc. Alexandra Velasco

2022

Major bus manufacturers - an overview of their Flagship Models

Author: M.Sc. Alexandra Velasco

2022

Index for sustainable public transport evaluation

Author: M.Sc. Alexandra Velasco

2022

Scenarios of potential reduction of emissions by different bus technologies - Case Studies of Quito, Ecuador and Montevideo, Uruguay

Author: M.Sc. Alexandra Velasco

Project Deliverables

Work Package 1

D1.1 Toolbox for efficient e-mobility

June 2020

D1.2 Evaluation Framework user needs and data requirements

December 2021

D1.3 User Needs Assessment

October 2020

D1.4 Data collection plan

March 2021

D1.5 Data Storage Repository

June 2020

D1.6 Impact assessments results

April 2023

Project Deliverables

Work Package 2

D2.1 Capacity Building Plan

May 2020

D2.2 Capacity Building Tools and Updates

December 2020

D2.3 Peer-to-peer Capacity Building on EV innovations

October 2020

D2.4 Regional training activity report

December 2021

D2.5 Global Trainings, Community of practice, e-learning

June 2023

D2.6 Collection of Good Practices

June 2023

Project Deliverables

Work Package 3

D3.1 Catalogue of e-mobility solutions

September 2020

D3.2 Collaboration framework

June 2021

D3.3 Business opportunities and partnerships

December 2021

D3.4 Global competitiveness report on electric mobility solutions

December 2022

D3.5 8-10 Business plans

December 2022

D3.6 Business models

June 2023

D3.7 Technical specification for Demo Actions

October 2020

D3.8 Standardisation and harmonisation specifications related to demo actions

December 2021

D3.9 Start-up summary report

December 2021

Project Deliverables

Work Package 4

D4.1 Nine Demo Implementation Plans

June 2020

D4.2 Demonstration actions - Living labs

December 2020

D4.3 Replication

April 2023

D4.4 Planning and implementation support, user acceptance

April 2023

Project Deliverables

Work Package 5

D5.1 Development of concept and prefeasibility studies

December 2022

D5.2 Policy development and institutionalisation

December 2022

D5.3 Facilitation of funding, financing and procurement

December 2022

Project Deliverables

Work Package 6

D6.1 Dissemination and exploration

December 2020

D6.2 Exploitation

December 2020

D6.3 Dissemination and Communication

December 2021

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