STAGE SESSIONS & SIDE EVENTS
Discover new perspectives and explore the key challenges and opportunities shaping urban mobility through inspiring activities led by leading organizations.
“The Barcelona Dialogue” – Integrating Vehicle Safety into Urban Policy
As cities transition toward sustainable urban mobility, the interaction between heavy vehicles, passenger cars, and vulnerable road users—particularly cyclists and pedestrians—presents a critical challenge. The FIA and Euro NCAP will co-host an exclusive, closed-door session focusing on vehicle and truck safety in dense urban environments.
03 NOV | 13:30 | CC1 – Room 1.3
03 NOV | 13:30 | CC1 – Room 1.3
BILM: Driving Urban Mobility Innovation in Barcelona
This session showcases Barcelona as a living lab for urban mobility innovation through the Barcelona Innova Lab Mobility (BILM). It presents the programme's methodology, highlights key outcomes from completed pilots, and shares progress from ongoing projects shaping a more sustainable, efficient and citizen-centred mobility model.
03 NOV | 09:30 | Shaping Mobility Stage
03 NOV | 09:30 | Shaping Mobility Stage
Reducing Urban Pollution: Practical Solutions for Cleaner, Quieter Cities
How can cities effectively reduce transport-related air and noise pollution? This session explores complementary, data-driven solutions already being deployed across Europe. Discover how collaboration across the urban mobility ecosystem is helping cities turn environmental data into smarter policies, cleaner air and healthier urban environments.
03 NOV | 14:45 | Move Better Stage
03 NOV | 14:45 | Move Better Stage
From Parking to Mobility: Five Priorities for Smarter European Cities
European cities face growing challenges around congestion, electrification, urban logistics, and digital mobility. Drawing on the EPA Manifesto 2025–2030, this session brings together city leaders and mobility experts to explore how better integration of transport, energy, logistics, and data can support more sustainable, connected, and resilient cities.
04 NOV | 14:05 | Shaping Mobility Stage
04 NOV | 14:05 | Shaping Mobility Stage
Mobility Institute Talks: Las claves de la nueva movilidad
The Mobility Institute brings together its ecosystem of public and private stakeholders representing Spain’s urban mobility and transport sector. The event will serve as a platform to share perspectives on the sector’s key challenges and to discuss the potential impact of emerging trends.
04 NOV | 12:00 | CC1 – Room 1.4
04 NOV | 12:00 | CC1 – Room 1.4
Urban freight distribution: Addressing the challenges of e-commerce
Moderated by AECOC, this session will explore how e-commerce growth is reshaping urban freight distribution, addressing rising delivery volumes, changing consumer expectations and the need for more flexible and efficient logistics solutions. The discussion will feature Marcos Urbaneja (AECOC), Nuria Blanco (Las Rozas City Council), Juan Carlos Escudero (Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council) and Julio Suero (InPost Iberia).
04 NOV | 09:30 | Shaping Mobility Stage
04 NOV | 09:30 | Shaping Mobility Stage
Doing More with Less: What’s Already Working on Europe’s Tram and Rail Networks
Ridership and expectations keep rising, but not budgets. Most transport authorities are under pressure, with fewer staff and shrinking resources. This session showcases four proven approaches already improving tram and rail operations across Europe. Discover practical solutions that are making services safer, maintenance smarter and operations more efficient, with lessons that cities, operators and industry can put into practice.
04 NOV | 11:20 | Shaping Mobility Stage
04 NOV | 11:20 | Shaping Mobility Stage
Urban logistics: how far can Cyclelogistics go?
Cyclelogistics is emerging as one of the most promising solutions for transforming urban freight and last-mile delivery. By shifting part of deliveries from vans to cargobikes, cities can reduce CO₂ emissions, improve air quality, ease congestion, noise as well release public space. It also offers a highly efficient way to move goods through dense urban areas by accessing to pedestrianised streets and local commercial areas faster than vans.
04 NOV | 16:50 | Shaping Mobility
04 NOV | 16:50 | Shaping Mobility
Deciding Who Drives: Governing Automated Mobility
As automated mobility shifts from pilots to real deployment, cities are confronted with fundamental governance choices. The session will discuss use cases they want to prioritise, considering principles like safety, inclusion, sustainability, and the regulatory frameworks needed for policy-driven automation. The session features POLIS members leading the way, in line with the principles of the POLIS-Eurocities Joint Charter on Automated Mobility.
04 NOV | 17:45 | Shaping Mobility Stage
04 NOV | 17:45 | Shaping Mobility Stage
Whose Data is it Anyway?
Who owns mobility data, who can access it and how can it be shared responsibly? This session explores the challenges of data governance, interoperability, trust and incentives, bringing together perspectives from across the mobility ecosystem. Discover how stronger collaboration can unlock the value of data while supporting innovation, better services and more effective transport planning.
03 NOV | 15:50 | Shaping Mobility Stage
03 NOV | 15:50 | Shaping Mobility Stage
Urban Safety Intelligence:Integrating Near-Incident Data into Mobility Standards
This workshop will deep-dive into the Open Mobility Foundation, Amsterdam, and NTM’s blueprint to standardize near-incident data exchange between urban authorities, light electric vehicle OEMs and shared mobility providers using the Mobility Data Specification. The workshop will explore potential use cases, build an implementation and use case roadmap for action, and establish the building blocks for European application and partnerships.
05 NOV | 09:00 | CC1 – Room 1.1
05 NOV | 09:00 | CC1 – Room 1.1
Open Mobility Ecosystem: the Marketplace
The "Open Mobility Ecosystem" is like the Internet of Mobility. The Internet for all and by all. But to make this work, we need to agree and collaborate on the framework of OME.
05 NOV | 09:30 | Move Better Stage
05 NOV | 09:30 | Move Better Stage
When No One Is in Charge: Multimodal Traffic Governance
When buses, rail, micromobility, freight and cars share one network, technical integration outpaces institutional coordination. This session confronts the governance question: who holds decision rights, how data and authority are shared across operators and cities, and what keeps networks resilient when disruptions cross modal and jurisdictional boundaries. And how do we incorporate users in a fair and effective way?
04 NOV | 09:30 | Move Better Stage
04 NOV | 09:30 | Move Better Stage