Research services

Tender description

The University of Leeds invites proposals for a Living Lab Demonstration of a Positive Incentives Scheme to Reduce the use of Conventionally Fuelled vehicles. The 'Empower' concept and mobility services will be initially trialled in large scale ‘living labs’ involving members of the public in the cities of Enschede (Netherlands), Gothenburg (Sweden), Helsinki (Finland) and in the (UK). In order to deliver our ambitious roll-out plans, we wish to recruit a further living lab based in the UK to provide a further large scale real-life implementation. The Living Labs have already started in 10 cities across Europe and the 'Empower' services are mature. The UK Living Lab stakeholders will develop and deliver the actual implementation, with the help of some funding from the 'Empower' budget of up to 80 000 GBP. 'Empower' partners will assist with some of the design and training functions where helpful (for example on evaluation method) and collaborate on the provision of mobility services (as needed). We expect Living Labs to be ambitious in scale, in line with a real-life implementation rather than a research study. We anticipate they may include circa 40 000 participants each. The UK Living Lab implementations will take place from 1.5.2017 and end with final delivery on 31.1.2018, so that evaluation results and data will be available within the 'Empower' project time schedule.