GOLIA
Governing, Optimising and Leveraging Innovations proActively for shaping future proof holistic mobility system through data-driven and social optimum led model
Data-Driven, Innovation-Led Mobility Transformation
Vision.
To develop a holistic, inclusive, and future-proof mobility governance model that supports Europe’s transition towards sustainable, equitable, and less car-dependent mobility systems. The project aims to empower mobility communities at local, regional, and national levels to align mobility planning with the European Green Deal and the Sustainable Development Goals, enabling a gradual shift away from car dependency.
The challenge.
GOLIA tackles the limitations of today’s mobility governance, which is fragmented, insufficiently data-driven, and not fully aligned with the real needs of diverse users. Current mobility planning lacks coordination across governance levels, relies on inconsistent or non-inclusive citizen engagement, and struggles to integrate digital tools and evidence. As a result, European cities face persistent car dependency and mobility systems that are not resilient to social, environmental, or technological disruptions.
Fragmented mobility governance
Insufficiently inclusive mobility planning
Persistent Car Dependency
Approach & solutions.
To address this challenge and to overcome fragmented governance, limited citizen inclusion, and poor integration of data and digital tools that prevent European cities from delivering adaptive, equitable, and future-proof mobility policies, GOLIA adopts an integrated, data-driven, and socially informed approach by combining:
- AI-enabled tools and data ecosystems (GO-DATA, GO-INFO, GO-KNOW, GO-WISDOM) to support evidence-based decision-making.
- Inclusive, citizen-driven engagement processes to ensure user needs, social equity, accessibility, and quality of life are embedded in mobility planning.
- Tools, methodologies, and policy recommendations that help policymakers harmonise mobility plans across governance levels.
- Interdisciplinary collaboration across social sciences and STEM to design a governance model that is adaptive, just, and resilient.
Together, these elements enable a holistic governance model capable of guiding Europe toward fair, sustainable, and future-ready mobility systems.
City Use Cases
The GOLIA partner cities are the core of the project’s real-world implementation. Acting as living labs, they provide diverse urban contexts in which GOLIA’s tools, methodologies, and governance innovations are tested, validated, and refined.
Each of the cities, Pilsen, Florence, and Antwerp, contributes its specific mobility challenges, policy priorities, and digital capabilities, ensuring that the project’s results are relevant across different European environments.
Across all three contexts, the partner cities co-develop and validate Mobility Transition Plans, ensuring that GOLIA’s models and recommendations are grounded in real mobility challenges and directly aligned with local decision-making.
Together, they form the backbone of the project’s evidence base and demonstrate how inclusive, data-driven mobility governance can be adapted to different European settings.
Mobility Governance & Multi-Level Policy Alignment
GOLIA strengthens coordination across local, regional, national, and EU mobility planning to create a coherent, harmonised governance framework aligned with European policy goals.
Data Integration & Digital Mobility Infrastructure
Integration of diverse public and private mobility-related data into a unified digital ecosystem to support more informed, evidence-based decision-making.
Citizen & Stakeholder Engagement
Modernisation of how cities engage with citizens by deploying inclusive, methods that ensure mobility policies reflect real user needs and social priorities.
Digital Decision-Support Tools & AI Modelling
Application of AI-enabled tools to analyse scenarios, forecast impacts, and support policymakers in making transparent, data-driven mobility decisions.
Social Optimum Mobility Planning
Incorporation of behavioural insights and equity considerations using the Social Optimum Mobility Index to design mobility systems that maximise societal benefit.
Sustainable Urban Mobility Transition Planning
Mobility Transition Plans to be developed by the cities that embed project tools and insights into long-term strategies for reducing car dependency and improving sustainable mobility.
Our role.
Apart from leading GOLIA's Ethics, IPR and Data Management activities,ensuring GDPR compliance, ethical standards, and responsible data use across the project, Inlecom Innovation also develops the interactive public engagement tool and contributes to the WP2 architecture and data ecosystem, supporting citizen-centred and trustworthy mobility governance.
This project has received funding from the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under GA 101201950. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
