Designing for Adoption: Implementing Digital Mobility Tools through Participatory Governance in Urban Living Labs of Holbæk and Lisbon

This PhD project investigates how multistakeholder and participatory design processes can improve the feasibility, relevance, long-term implementation and use of digital decision-support tools for sustainable urban mobility. While cities increasingly invest in implementing digital tools to support climate-neutral and inclusive mobility transitions, many of these tools remain underused or disconnected from everyday planning practice. The project pays particular attention to adolescent participation in urban mobility planning, a group that is often affected by mobility decisions but has limited formal agency and is rarely meaningfully involved in planning processes, using this perspective to examine how inclusive co-creation can strengthen governance outcomes.