The four-country region has high demands on mobility. Intensive inner-city and inter-rural traffic – often in very demanding topography – meet, traffic flows run across national borders and the many small towns form unattractive mobility markets for providers of existing mobility solutions. In connection with the increased traffic and emissions in passenger and freight transport in the region, complexity is increasing and thus requires innovative, systematically cross-border and mostly digitally supported solutions.

The Sustainable Mobility Lab implements a virtual and physical platform that connects all relevant regional mobility players and supports them in the development of mobility solutions as well as their testing and implementation in practical projects around Lake Constance. The aim is to turn the four-country region into a living lab for innovative, sustainable mobility solutions.
The Lab pursues an entrepreneurially agile and iterative approach that uses alternative ways of thinking and working (Design Thinking/Lean Startup/Prototyping) for targeted, collaborative development with established companies and new startups and permanently integrates all stakeholders in a transdisciplinary manner – supported by the platform. This leads to intentional networking (N-to-N relationship) and cooperation between mobility stakeholders, targeted practical projects and a dissemination of the findings from the pilot project and, based on this, sustainable, innovative mobility services in the four-country region of Lake Constance – driven by new, regional entrepreneurship.

The newly created structures and services are intended to increase the competitiveness and attractiveness of the region; not only for existing companies and new mobility providers through new economic activities, but also for talent, tourism and residents.