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Barcelona Innova Lab Mobility (BILM) is an urban mobility living lab powered by Barcelona City Council's Mobility Area, the Barcelona Institute of Technology for the Habitat (BIT Habitat), and supported by Fira de Barcelona. The initiative aims to boost the implementation of innovative projects and pilot tests in smart and sustainable urban mobility.
BILM is the first project in Barcelona that entails designing real spaces in the city to carry out pilot tests of new, sustainable innovative solutions to urban mobility. The Lab operates through a challenge-based model: it defines a series of urban mobility challenges and invites companies globally to propose disruptive solutions, with significant funding allocated for winning pilots. Recent challenges have included improving motorbike safety, reducing noise pollution, improving efficiency of urban freight, and transforming HORECA (hotel, restaurant, café) deliveries, each with prize allocations of €100,000 to €200,000.
The lab has also collaborated with Mobile World Capital Barcelona to promote technological transformation in the city's mobility sector. Successful pilot projects include an automated bus lane and bus stop enforcement system developed with Hayden AI, which uses artificial intelligence for automatic control of reserved lanes to improve bus circulation.
BILM represents Barcelona's broader approach to urban innovation, bringing diverse stakeholders together to address public interest challenges through technology. The initiative has been showcased at the Smart City Expo World Congress and Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress, both held in Barcelona.
By providing a structured framework for testing mobility innovations in real urban conditions, BILM accelerates the deployment of solutions that address Barcelona's specific mobility challenges, where urban mobility generates a significant share of the city's environmental impact.