TIE Research Database

The future of our urban mobility systems depends on numerous framework conditions, including technical, political, regulatory, social, cultural, and economic parameters. These conditions are city-specific and serve as the building blocks of what we define here as the Transportation Innovation Ecosystem (TIE) of a city. However, many cities do not have a thorough understanding of their TIEs. This limited understanding reduces the ability of cities to define, adopt, and implement policies that aim at promoting innovative solution in light of the mobility challengers they face. For this purpose a methodology was developed that made it possible to map the ecosystems of innovation in urban transportation, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the systems. The study funded by the EIT Urban Mobility, a consortium established by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), of the EU.

The methodology developed in the project was applied to three cities: Munich, Budapest and Prague. The project was carried out in collaboration with local research teams and senior local government officials in the three cities. Mapping the ecosystems of transportation innovation in the three cities included collecting data through local experts.  The macro analysis presented in the database details a list of anchors and processes that characterize the ecosystem of innovative transportation in the three inspected cities.