Lahti

Urban mobility

CitiCap - Citizen's cap-and-trade co-created

”Sustainable urban mobility is a key focus area of Lahti for the next years. Our aim is to find the most inspiring ways to attract more people to walk, cycle and use public transportation. Through CitiCAP we will build a completely new public incentive, the personal carbon trade (PCT), that may revolutionise the participation of citizens to climate change mitigation.”

Jyrki Myllyvirta, Mayor of Lahti
The project in numbers
120 000
inhabitants live in Lahti, making it a typical European medium-size city
70%
reduction of CO2 emissions from 1990 level by 2030 is the strategic goal of Lahti
32%
of total CO2 emissions is contributed by traffic sector within the city area
17%
is currently the modal split of cyclists in Lahti
EUR 3,799,120.80
Total ERDF budget granted
Challenge addressed

The CitiCAP Project aims to change the attitude and behaviour of citizens towards mobility to promote the shift from private car use to sustainable mobility. The lack of mass-transit options in Lahti, and in many other medium-size European cities, emphasises the need to create smart mobility solutions to reduce traffic CO2 emissions. Approximately 32% of total CO2 emissions is contributed by the traffic sector within the city area of Lahti.

Today roughly 250 European cities have fostered their mobility planning using the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) process. However, the participation of citizens to integrated mobility planning and new radical SUMP incentives requires the revision of the SUMP process. CitiCAP seeks to develop new transport services for citizens while creating innovative incentives for sustainable mobility.

The project also focuses on integrating the ITS approach into the sustainable urban mobility planning. Cities produce large amounts of mobility and traffic data, which society cannot fully utilise because this data is very segregated and is normally not made available to the public. Different traffic data produced in Lahti accumulate to differential storages and data providers.

Solution proposed

The CitiCAP Project focuses on co-creating and implementing a Personal Carbon Trading (PCT) scheme for mobility to reduce traffic emissions in Lahti. This will be a first city-wide pilot of PCT ever performed within the EU. Through the PCT scheme citizens can receive benefits, such as discounted bus tickets or bicycle repair services, in exchange for smart mobility choices. In practice, the personal carbon footprint for mobility will be calculated with a new mobile application based on a transport mode detection solution.

The project seeks to build a new model for the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) process by integrating the traffic and spatial master planning processes into the same co-designed entity. Strategic investments in cycling will be included into the combined planning process to increase the impacts. It will include a smart main cycle route.

One of the basic requirements of CitiCAP is to collect comprehensive data on people's mobility choices. A light and replicable mobility data platform will be created to implement PCT and to serve as a planning tool for city mobility planners as well as an open access mobility data source for innovators.

Partnership
  • City of Lahti
  • Lahti Region Development LADEC Ltd - Business organisation
  • Lappeenranta University of Technology LUT -  Higher Education and Research Institute
  • Lahti University of Applied Sciences LUAS - Higher Education and Research Institutes
  • MOPRIM Ltd - SME
  • Good Sign Ltd - SME
  • Infotripla Ltd - SME
  • Mattersoft Ltd - SME
  • Future Dialog Ltd - SME
Expected results

The main goals of the CitiCAP Project are to reduce traffic congestion and emissions from transport, collect and make available digital data on mobility, and develop new transport services for citizens in Lahti.

Personal Carbon Trading (PCT) trial will lead to tested policy level innovation that supports low-carbon mobility. Secondly, it will showcase the PCT scheme’s potential to increase the use of smart mobility services.

CitiCAP will create a new Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) process with special focus on traffic-spatial planning integration and PCT.

Mobility data will be provided for three main purposes: data for use of urban authorities only, data for PCT scheme use and open access mobility data. As a result of the project, other cities, companies and third parties will be able to use the solutions and the collected mobility data for their own development projects.

Main milestones

January-May 2018: Planning of open mobility data possibilities.

May 2018: Policy draft explaining different PCT models.

May 2018: Participatory process description of integrated SUMP + Master Plan.

June-July 2018: Innovation competition on smart bicycle highway solutions.

October 2018: Mobility data platform architecture established.

December 2018: Fair personal allocation of carbon reductions targets co-designed.

January 2019 - June 2020: Pilot period of the PCT scheme.

September 2019: EU Mobility Week / Lahti festival. Launch of the PCT scheme.

June 2019 - June 2020: Building phase of a smart main cycle route working as a pilot arena for smart mobility services and visible arena for PCT.

November 2020: Final conference.

The project in numbers
120 000
inhabitants live in Lahti, making it a typical European medium-size city
70%
reduction of CO2 emissions from 1990 level by 2030 is the strategic goal of Lahti
32%
of total CO2 emissions is contributed by traffic sector within the city area
17%
is currently the modal split of cyclists in Lahti
EUR 3,799,120.80
Total ERDF budget granted
Contact of the project
Anna Huttunen
Project Manager
Philip Turner
UIA expert

Project news & events

CitiCAP Expert Journal

CitiCAP Expert Journal: Get an update on what has been happening in the last 6 months in Lahti

In his 3rd journal of CitiCAP, UIA expert Philip Turner describes his take on the project over the last 6 months, which included a stimulating and enr...
City cap Zoom in 2

The CitiCAP (citizens' cap and trade co-created) Project Zoom In 2

The work on Lahti Direction combines transport and land-use planning in a new way, and builds a sustainable city in cooperation with citizens, stakeho...
CitiCAP Journal 6

CitiCAP Journal 6

In his 6th and concluding journal of CitiCAP, UIA expert Philip Turner describes the final results and takeaways from the project, which includes the ...
New technical solutions tested on the CitiCAP bicycle highway

New technical solutions tested on the CitiCAP bicycle highway

The city of Lahti's new CitiCAP bicycle highway has served walkers and cyclists since the turn of the year. In the spring, information displays w...
CitiCAP Zoom-in 3: An interview about Personal Carbon Trading scheme

CitiCAP Zoom-in 3: An interview about Personal Carbon Trading scheme

My interest in Personal Carbon Trading (PCT) stems from my time working at the UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in 20...
Citicap

CitiCAP Journal: Get an update on what happened in the last 6 months in Lahti

In his 5th journal of CitiCAP, UIA expert Philip Turner describes his take on the project over the last 6 months which saw the start of the transition...
Anna Huttunen

How does CitiCap project promote sustainable mobility through citizen engagement?

CityCap is getting a lot of attention, both EU- and internationally-wise. It was awarded with the Gitex 2019 Smart City series (biggest technology exh...
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CitiCAP application data to be used for corona research

Lahti´s CitiCAP application collects data of its users' mobility. The study of this year's spring shows that the mobility of Lahti people ha...
CitiCAP Expert Journal 4

CitiCAP Expert Journal 4: Get an update on what has been happening in the last 6 months in Lahti

In his 4th journal of CitiCAP, UIA expert Philip Turner describes his take on the project over the last 6 months, which included the testing and user ...
City of Lahti Launches a Personal Carbon Trading Scheme for Citizens

City of Lahti Launches a Personal Carbon Trading Scheme for Citizens

Lahti, Finland, has become the first city in the world to launch a personal carbon trading scheme to reduce emissions from transport. Personal carbon ...
CitiCAP Expert Journal: Get an update on what has been happening in the last 6 months in Lahti

CitiCAP Expert Journal: testing the Personal Carbon Trading Scheme

In his 4th journal of CitiCAP, UIA expert Philip Turner describes his take on the project over the last 6 months, which included the testing and user ...
CitiCAP application test started

CitiCAP application test started

Testing of the carbon trading application CitiCAP for mobility emissions has begun....
Safe bicycle racks introduced during Mobility Week

Safe bicycle racks introduced during Mobility Week

The cycling conditions in Lahti were improved with the introduction of new, safe bicycle racks. Ten bicycle racks were placed in the tunnel of the Lah...
CitiCAP

Emissions trading application to be tested in Lahti

An emissions trading application intended for development in the CitiCAP (Citizens ' cap-and-trade co-created) project has been brought to the te...
European Green Capital Award for Lahti

Lahti appointed European Green Capital!

Lahti is the first Finnish city to be appointed as the European Green Capital at the awards ceremony in Oslo June 20 2019....
Lahti Journal 2

CitiCAP Expert Journal: Get an update on what has been happening in the last 6 months in Lahti

In his 2nd journal of CitiCAP, UIA expert Philip Turner describes his take on the project over the last 6 months, which included a stimulating and enr...
CitiCap zoom-in 1

A critical friend's view on Lahti's Personal Carbon Trading scheme

This Zoom-in aims to take a critical view of personal carbon trading  (PCT), outlining some of its core components with a particular focus on the chal...
CitiCAP Lahti

Lahti invites fellow cities to join in

The CitiCAP project will launch the world’s first pilot on personal carbon trading on mobility emissions in the Autumn 2019. One of the City of Lahti’...
Lahti CITICAP

Allocation of emission allowances for mobility investigated through a survey

The main objective of the CitiCAP (Citizens’ cap-and-trade co-created) project is to reduce the emissions from urban transport by means of personal ca...
Lahti journal

CitiCAP UIA Expert Journal – Learn more about the experiment with a Personal Carbon Trading scheme

UIA Expert, Philip Turner, gives a first look on how the project is being implemented ...
A smart bicycle highway will improve cycling conditions in Lahti

CitiCap

As part of the CitiCAP project, a 2.5 km long bicycle highway will be built in Lahti. The purpose of the bike path is to enable smooth and safe cyclin...
Visiting the Ghent project

Lahti presented its personal carbon trading experiment at the EU Green Week in Brussels

On Tuesday 22 May, the City of Lahti organised an interactive workshop in Brussels under the title Tackling Climate Change: Co-creating Personal Carbo...
PCT in Lahti

Improving the environment while making yourself more aware of your mobility choices

Development of the model and design of the platform for personal carbon trading has been the main focus during the first months of the CitiCAP project...

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