Maabara ya Mabadiliko Endelevu ya Miji (SUT)
The SUT Lab, a partnership of ETH Zurich and the Bolt Urban Fund, brings innovative, data-driven research to city planning teams. ETH Zürich leads the research, while Bolt shares proprietary service data and supports research through app-based surveys and travel data analysis.
The SUT Lab projects bridge science and policy with hands-on recommendations, helping cities move from ambitious sustainable mobility plans to specific, evidence-based interventions.
In Europe, researchers collaborate with city planning teams to optimise and accelerate their Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs), analysing travel behaviour, enhancing network safety, and modelling the impact of infrastructure investments such as new metro lines and mobility hubs. In cities outside Europe, the Lab focuses on improving accessibility in underserved areas to support economic and social inclusion.
In Hannover, the SUT Lab team used e-scooter telemetry, simulation models, and surveys to understand how micromobility and public transport can better work together, identifying optimal mobility hub locations and evaluating new parking zone policies.
In Seville, the SUT Lab team analyses e-bike and ride-hailing data, safety telemetry, and simulation models to assess how cycling infrastructure and planned Metro expansions can drive modal shift and improve multimodal connectivity.
In Lisbon, the SUT Lab team is piloting specific street design interventions in the city centre, using mobility data, planning analysis, surveys, and simulations to support evidence-based, people-centred public space decisions.
In Asunción, the SUT Lab team is conducting a six-month study of ride-hailing in the metropolitan transport mix, identifying areas of low public transport connectivity and how ride-hailing and public transport can best complement each other – this is the SUT Lab first project in the Americas.
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Transforming mobility data into urban insights
"Mfumo wa uhamaji mijini unaofanya kazi vizuri huboresha ubora wa maisha, ukuaji wa uchumi na ufikivu. Ni muhimu kuhakikisha kwamba mifumo ya uhamaji mijini inaweka kipaumbele kwenye usalama, mazingira bora ya kuishi na ujumuishaji wa kijamii kadiri inavyoendelea kubadilika. SUT Lab inatoa fursa nzuri ya kuelewa michakato hii na kuandaa suluhisho za kuboresha uhamaji mijini kwa watu."
Profesa Eva Heinen
Profesa wa Usafiri na Mipango ya Uhamaji katika ETH Zurich
Programu ya Bolt ya Kuharakisha Ukuaji
Kupitia mafunzo yaliyolengwa katika Bolt Academy, washiriki wa programu hupata ujuzi mpya katika ujasiriamali, teknolojia na uendelevu, na kujenga kujiamini kama wavumbuzi na viongozi wa jamii.
Programu hii imesaidia zaidi ya mawazo 40 ya biashara kutimia, kuanzia mitandao ya kuchaji magari ya umeme hadi programu za lojistiki na huduma za usimamizi wa meli za magari. Huku mamia ya washirika wakiendelea kuboresha ujuzi wao barani Afrika na Ulaya, Programu ya Bolt ya Kuharakisha Ukuaji inahakikisha kwamba watu wanaoifanya miji iendelee kusonga wanakuwa na nafasi kubwa zaidi katika kuiunda.
"Kupitia Programu ya Bolt ya Kuharakisha Ukuaji, biashara yangu, Lupa Township Delivery, iliweza kutoka kwenye wazo hadi kufikia ukuaji. Usaidizi na ufadhili uliotolewa ulinisaidia kuwekeza katika zana muhimu na kujenga muundo wa biashara endelevu na unaoweza kupanuka. Programu hii kwa kweli inawekeza katika mustakabali wa wajasiriamali wa usafiri barani Afrika."
Kamogelo Modise,
Dereva mshirika wa Bolt mjini Pretoria, Afrika Kusini
Kuhusu Bolt Urban Fund
Kupitia mpango huu wa athari za kijamii unaowezesha maisha endelevu ya mijini, Bolt inashirikiana na taasisi zinazoongoza za kitaaluma, mashirika ya kimataifa, mashirika yasiyo ya kiserikali, miji na jamii za mitaa ili kuharakisha athari chanya za usafiri wa pamoja duniani kote. Mipango ya sasa ni pamoja na:
Ushirikiano na ETH Zurich ili kusaidia miji kuboresha usafiri wa mijini na upangaji wa miundombinu.
Kusaidia kizazi kijacho cha wajasiriamali katika jamii ya madereva washirika.
Kuboresha ujumuishaji wa kijamii na kiuchumi wa wafanyakazi wahamiaji katika uchumi wa majukwaa.
Kusaidia miradi midogo katika jamii za maeneo husika.