GEMINI gathers a multidisciplinary team of 43 partners collectively working in the project MLLs, to co-design and deploy 8 New Mobility Services (NMS) reaching TRL-8, with significant impact, accounting for user acceptance, sustainability and financial viability. This Open Innovation Ecosystem will strengthen cooperation among stakeholders, setting the foundations for establishing public–private partnerships (PPP), mobility hubs, open mobility dataspaces, highly integrated MaaS systems and a data-driven mobility intelligence platform (AI4BI) to support cities in monitoring, regulating, and optimising shared mobility adapted to local needs. GEMINI will structure the path from business scenarios to upscaled NMS business ventures.
Each MLL will demonstrate reduction of congestion, air pollution and road risk, whilst fostering accessibility and social inclusion, targeting an increased share of NMS in the modal distribution at least by 25% compared to the baseline, measured at the start of the project. GEMINI will liaise with the CIVITAS initiative and Mission Cities umbrella to deliver a comprehensive policy package to guide and incentivise future mobility solutions.
During the first 18 months, GEMINI has made significant progress in multiple areas:
1. Business and Operational Models
• Conducted a market analysis on shared mobility trends.
• Defined eight innovative business models, including Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), car-sharing, and micro-mobility solutions.
• Developed governance and operational frameworks for implementing shared mobility services in the Living Labs.
2. Impact Assessment and User Acceptance
• Designed city-specific evaluation frameworks to measure the impact of new mobility services.
• Assessed user needs and public acceptance through surveys and case studies.
3. Living Labs Implementation and NMS Validation
• Established mobility interventions in lead cities, including community-based car-sharing in Amsterdam and football event mobility management in Munich.
• Installed smart mobility hubs in Copenhagen and Turin.
4. Digital Mobility Enablers
• Developed an AI-driven business intelligence platform to optimize shared mobility services.
• Implemented data-sharing mechanisms for interoperability among cities.
During reporting period 2 (M19–M30), GEMINI made significant progress in multiple areas:
1. Business Models, Operational Planning, and Knowledge Transfer
• Consolidated the business and operational groundwork developed in the first period, including eight business model scenarios and a six-pillar operational methodology for deploying new mobility services.
• Disseminated WP1 results through open-access scientific publications and conference presentations.
• Fed business-model and operational-planning results into exploitation activities and the GEMINI Academy to support replication, training, and capacity building.
2. Impact Assessment and User-Centred Evaluation
• Continued applying the GEMINI Impact Assessment and Evaluation Framework across the eight Mobility Living Labs, ensuring consistent monitoring and cross-city comparability.
• Refined evaluation plans and survey questionnaires, and continued using the user-acceptance toolkit to support engagement and acceptance assessments in both Lead and Twinning Living Labs.
• Initiated process evaluation in Copenhagen and used privacy, resilience, and safety requirements to guide ongoing refinement of WP4 digital tools.
3. Living Labs Implementation and Validation
• Scaled up Amsterdam’s Mobility as a Commons approach, with four operational car-sharing cooperatives involving 98 participating households.
• Completed the Copenhagen peri-urban mobility hubs demonstration, recording more than 40,000 trips and creating conditions for continuation and scale-up.
• Advanced Munich’s event mobility management at Allianz Arena through data-driven modelling and a Park-and-Ride pilot, while Turin launched the SmartMove by GEMINI MaaS app integrating public transport, shared mobility, taxi, and parking services.
• Progressed Twinning Living Labs in Porto, Helsinki, Paris-Saclay, and Ljubljana, adapting GEMINI solutions to local contexts such as multimodal ticketing, peri-urban connectivity, shared cars, and tourist/corporate mobility services.
4. Digital Mobility Enablers
• Developed and validated two proof-of-concept tools for fleet health monitoring: the AAOS In-Car App and the CARUSO Data Platform for analytics and predictive maintenance.
• Deployed the GEMINI Dataspace and advanced the Business Intelligence Platform, enabling secure data sharing, AI-driven fleet optimisation, and demand forecasting.
• Created a portfolio of smart mobility applications and technologies to support interoperability, replication, and knowledge transfer across the Living Labs.
