{"id":314,"date":"2020-04-15T13:51:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T13:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isinnova.org\/Dignity\/?page_id=314"},"modified":"2021-04-19T14:11:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:11:53","slug":"tilburg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.isinnova.org\/Dignity\/pilots\/tilburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilburg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The city<\/h1><\/div>
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The metropolitan area of Brabantstad has 2.5 million inhabitants and is made up of five main cities, one of which is Tilburg, a frontrunner in socially inclusive mobility policy. The government is exploring how mobility solutions can diminish the social exclusion of vulnerable groups in society. Both mobility and social policies are responsible for solving the problem.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The challenge <\/h1><\/div>
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The city faces various challenges with vulnerable groups, which differ between urban and rural areas. Rural areas are populated mainly by elderly people who may not be familiar with or at ease with the available digital services for the city\u2019s mobility. Within the urban area, transport poverty is an important issue, with access to bicycles or public transport sometimes limited because of high fees.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The vision <\/h1><\/div>
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Framing the transport poverty gap: mapping vulnerable groups<\/strong><\/p>\n

To effectively design and implement actions that will diminish the transport poverty gap, the city of Tilburg first needs to clarify the nature and size of the challenge. A number of organisations representing vulnerable groups will be actively involved in the initial analysis, so that we gain a clear understanding of their locations, needs, skills and requirements. The outcome of this process will be an online system to map these groups, where they live and multimodal accessibility. This mapping will then be used when design pilots are set up to tackle the existing problems.<\/p>\n

Implementing socially inclusive solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then, a process will be set up with end users to design tailor-made solutions, such as one that will help the elderly living in rural areas use public transport, and another that will reduce urban social exclusion by bridging the needs and skills gap of people living in poverty. A circular approach will be used to actively include feedback and enable interventions and adjustments within the pilots.<\/p>\n

Nextbike will lead the realisation of a concept for a socially inclusive bikeshare scheme, with special attention given to marginalised groups, including seniors, people with low incomes, the disabled and migrants, for the Tilburg region. It will do this by:<\/p>\n