Thessaloniki Smart Mobility Living Lab

Thessaloniki Smart Mobility Living Lab is one of Europe’s largest Living Labs on mobility. The entire city of Thessaloniki is a platform for testing technological and innovative solutions for shared and on-demand mobility, cooperative and autonomous vehicles and will soon be extended to freight transport. Thessaloniki is in the list of smart cities in the mobility sector, and this would not have been possible without the involvement of the bodies that make up the ecosystem of the city, which has been created over the last decade and is constantly growing. In this ecosystem, various mobility operators and technology providers are engaged in providing data and expertise to create the right conditions for the exploitation of this infrastructure for the benefit of the whole ecosystem, which has the citizens at its center. The Thessaloniki Smart Mobility Living Lab includes, among others:

1. extended IoT equipment in vehicles (bikes, e-scooters, taxis and trains) and in the city streets (Bluetooth detectors, cameras, radars);
2. real time traffic data in the whole Effective Member Thessaloniki Smart Mobility Living Lab Areas of Work • Mobility • Smart Cities & Regions • SME & Start-ups • Social Innovation & Inclusion • Urban • Zero Pollution & Decarbonization Main Expertise Region of Central Macedonia (including travel time along pre-defined routes and traffic speed in road segments);
3. short-term predictions of traffic conditions and travel time based on multi-source data;
4. mobility and activity patterns extraction and analysis.

Areas of work:

• Emerging Technologies (e.g. AI, AR/VR)
• Environment/Climate Change
• Mobility
• Smart Cities and Regions
• Social Innovation and Inclusion
• Urban
• Zero Pollution and Decarbonization