SuRuMo

The lack of sustainable mobility solutions in rural areas is a common problem with similar challenges in both Sweden, Latvia and many other EU countries. The countryside is car-dependent and accounts for a large part of the traffic that affects the environment and climate of both cities and entire regions.

Neither the public sector nor the market currently offers mobility solutions in rural areas because it simply isn’t profitable. The SuRuMo project therefore aims to focus on developing mobility solutions for these areas. Within the project, we will collect and present data on the ways and possibilities for organizing public co-financing in a cross-border digital platform.

The main result of SuRuMo is to develop one cross border digital plattform which can include various physical mobility solutions to be used by citizens and one tool for estimation of mobility patterns to be used by traffic planners to map areas where new mobility solutions can be introduced. These tools will together, in this project, directly benefit the citizens in rural areas in Latvia and Sweden but will also provide the opportunity for other countries, and not only rural areas, to lower the threshold for introducing sustainable shared mobility solutions

SuRuMo will apply and have a big focus on a participatory approach to better address local needs and strengthen local awareness and support for new mobility approaches. Conditions will be created for including a breadth of user groups and create opportunities for increased equality by giving more people access to sustainable and efficient transports. 

Pilots will be designed, monitored and evaluated in new partnerships between municipalities, public transport companies, private market actors in cooperation with local target groups.

A common cross border framework and method support will be used in order to be able to compare and evaluate results in the project. In this way, a robustness is created in the development of both the tools and the working method, which is expected to provide better conditions for dissemination and use in other countries and places.