Year after year, Lund ranks among the top in Bicycle promotion annual ranking of the Municipality Velometer. 2021 Lund finished second after Uppsala, which then topped the list for the fourth year in a row. In the ranking, it was noted, among other things, that Lund is particularly good at information and marketing, and has a good organization. Lund also has a large network of cycleways, both in the city and in and between the municipality's agglomerations, which is constantly evolving.

This proves, of course, that Lund Municipality has very well-developed cycling facilities and a strong cycling culture. However, with continuing population growth and increasing population density, it is important to continuously implement measures that improve environmental considerations and promote sustainability. Therefore, the municipality would like to increase the proportion of bicycle journeys. In the project “Finding Hidden Cycle Potentials” The goal is to, with the help of Trivectores app TravelVu find untapped potential to further increase the number of bicycle journeys. TravelVu can provide a better understanding of who uses the bike network and how they use it. In this way, the municipality can receive new information to better target infrastructure spending and programmes on measures to make cycling more inclusive for all groups.

Volunteer lunatics will register their bike trip data in the app. The data collected in the app is presented in maps showing which cycle routes are most used and which are less popular. The maps can be supplemented with user demographics, travel purpose, time of day and length showing areas of the municipality experiencing high usage and areas that are underutilized. The maps are weighted according to demographic data and can show whether there is a difference between demographics, travel types and times of day.

The project is coordinated by the Technical Administration of Lund Municipality and funded by IoT Sweden. The project cooperates with the traffic flow projects Lund Open Sensing City (LOSC) and FLOW which is also implemented in Lund Municipality with Future by Lund as coordinator. Project runs March 2021 - February 2023

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‍Classification in the Future by Lund framework

Layer: ! 3

Zone: Green (2)

What do we mean by zone and layer?

Future by Lund works with a framework to create understanding and provide a basis for strategic decisions regarding the development of the innovation ecosystem where the partnership will be able to review the ecosystem together and conduct strategic dialogues about future development. Working with zones is a way to show what kind of innovation activity and development phase it is, while layers are a way of showing the amount of activities and partner involvement, where you can follow seed investments, project financing and the journey ahead as a result of a project.

Blue, green and yellow zone

To explain the possibilities of the organizational gap between the municipality, business and the university, a model with a blue, a green and a yellow zone is used.

In the blue zone the organization decides everything itself and has control and mandate. Here you control yourself and there is a structure for how you conduct your business. Outside there is Green Zone, located in the gap between organizations. There is a need for cooperation and dialogue with shared mandates. Organizations negotiate and create agreements about who does what, what can be done together, and how it should be done. For example, cities and construction companies often work together to build new areas or concrete projects with common goals and shared tasks and resources. If you go further into it yellow zone the mandate is rather unclear and organisations share challenges and opportunities. Who owns what and who will do what is not clear, presenting greater risks. It is necessary to co-create. In this zone, you need to stimulate, facilitate, test and monitor the outside world in order to create knowledge and understanding. The organizations share the risks surrounding the unknown and the unarticulated. Participant engagement and presence drives the opportunities. Many in Future by Lund's network work precisely with things that are located in the green and yellow zones in areas that you share with others. Activities carried out in the green or yellow zone can eventually become business opportunities and then end up in the blue zone where organizations take home results, use them, build business and scale.

Consequential effects through the layer model

To demonstrate the importance of innovation activities for a system of actors, Future by Lund's associate researcher Emily Wise works with the “layer model” — which is a reporting method used in Vinnova's Vinnprogram and captures dynamics and the “ripple effects” that the initiatives contribute to.

First layer är the support (or base funding) that comes directly to the innovation platform.

Second layer consists of project funding for projects that Future by Lund either leads or participates in.

Third layer is project funding that goes to partners in projects in which Future by Lund does not participate. This is called a spinoff project or follow-on project.

Fourth layer are the qualitative events in the system that are signs that change is taking place in the direction of the sustainable city. It can be new businesses, new products, an increase in the number of employees, new investment streams, new infrastructure and an increase in attention.

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