Deadline: 16-Jun-25
Applicants are now invited to apply for the United Nations Human Settlements Programme: Accelerating Access to Low Carbon Urban Mobility Solutions through Digitalization to introduce digitalization policies and tools into urban transport systems in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector.
The project is transformative and will benefit citizens in each country who use urban transport by providing more efficient low carbon transport options and in the longer term healthier and cleaner environments, as well as benefiting national and city government stakeholders and the private sector. Planned measures are:
- Developing national policies to enable digitalisation of mobility
- Developing local policies and implementing pilots at city level
- Documenting and curating lessons, knowledge, data in order to develop tools and resources to be shared at regional level through capacity building and replication.
Objectives
- Argentina: Identify and validate the characteristics of the urban logistics tools to be developed for Buenos Aires) courier fleet tracking and dynamic routing and digital tools for reservation, management and control of loading and unloading areas by:
- Reviewing and systematizing international case studies with a focus on regional experiences.
- Analysing the legal, financial, economic and social feasibility of implementing the tools.
- Defining and validating the characteristics of the tools with key stakeholders.
- Elaborating the terms of reference for the development of the tools.
- Ecuador: Contribute to the development of transport optimization and AQ models to support decision makers in Quito by:
- Developing a model and tool for fleet allocation of Quito’s BRT feeder system to be later scaled up to the Trolebús and Ecovía BRT corridors in close collaboration with the municipal PTO.
- Preparation, parametrization and calibration of the air quality model aligned to the needs of the Air Quality Monitoring Unit of the Municipality of Quito.
- The models must be compatible with all relevant operating systems, ensuring that input data will be available and therefore can be integrated into the municipal systems.
Funding Information
- UN-Habitat will contribute financial resources up to USD 20,000 (Twenty Thousand United States Dollars) per country.
- Duration: The work is scheduled to commence by 1 July 2025 and to be completed by December 2025.
Eligible Countries
- This call focuses on the activities to be conducted in Argentina and Ecuador.
Application Requirements
- The EOI should contain, but not be limited to, the following:
- Overall experience of the non-for-profit organization (university/NGO)/consortium in the areas of transport and mobility, digitalisation, e-mobility, and other relevant topics in the specific country
- A short conceptual proposal on how the non-for-profit organization/consortium plans to develop and implement the activities
- Governance and organizational structure; experience and qualifications of key professional staff and infrastructure facilities of the organization/consortium
- Details of the organization/consortium financial and in-kind contributions, including staff time, office space and equipment and other support in cash and in-kind should be expressed in monetary terms.
For more information, visit UN-HABITAT.
