The SMARTA-NET Final Brochure presents key insights, lessons learned, and recommendations from the project’s activities. It highlights innovative solutions, good practices, and collaborative approaches that enhance sustainable mobility in rural areas. It is available in all official EU languages.

This brochure provides a concise summary of the key results of the SMARTA-NET project, offering policymakers, mobility practitioners, and stakeholders a quick insight into its main activities and findings. It is available in all official EU languages.

To foster the capacity of rural municipalities to develop and implement sustainable and integrated solutions, SMARTA-NET produced a guidance on rural shared mobility solutions, grounded in the assessment of 32 mobility services. Key aspects included are: i) guidelines for the development of a package of mobility solutions, with case studies; ii) key aspects of demand responsive transport, ride sharing, and asset sharing services; iii) integration of different transport and mobility solutions across physical, digital, and promotional layers.

SMARTA-NET developed a Guidance to enhance sustainable mobility in rural tourism regions by analysing travel patterns, promoting stakeholder collaboration, and improving walking, cycling, public transport, and intermodal options. It emphasises clear travel information before and during trips, encouraging eco-friendly arrivals.

The Catalogue of Rural Shared Mobility Solutions is designed to assist rural municipalities and practitioners in implementing a variety of mobility services, blending formal and informal options. It showcases sustainable and shared mobility practices from diverse rural EU contexts, serving as a source of inspiration for areas facing connectivity challenges. The Catalogue features case studies of initiatives such as on-demand services and carpooling, providing practical insights, lessons learned, and operational considerations for stakeholders. By offering tailored solutions, the Catalogue aims to enhance accessibility and quality of life in rural communities.

To help rural places to gain knowledge and a realistic overview of the characteristics and the tourist mobility in their own region, our partner NIT has developed a self-check tool on sustainable tourist mobility for rural regions. Analysing the situation in your own area will help you to move forward on the way to a more sustainable tourism mobility – because it is easier to head in the right direction, if you know where you come from.

The following set of five checklists on sustainable tourist mobility were developed by the Federal Ministry of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology of the Republic of Austria. In order to make the checklists accessible to tourism and mobility stakeholders in rural communities in other countries, they were translated into English during the SMARTA-NET project and slightly supplemented to also meet the needs of coastal regions. We recommend to use the checklists together with the “Guidance on Sustainable Mobility in rural tourism communities”.

Our partner TIS prepared knowledge maps consisting of interactive visual models that assist users in accessing a range of information required for planning rural mobility. The maps allows us to identify the extent to which the rural mobility dimension could be integrated into SUMP design through benchmarking different SUMP implementations across Europe. This benchmarking provides insights about the way interconnections between cities and countryside were addressed in different local contexts.