Getting citizens on board: new ways to involve citizens in transport planning: The LOOPER platform

This paper presents the LOOPER participatory co-creation methodology and online platform bringing together citizens, stakeholders and policy-makers to iteratively learn how to address urban challenges (road safety, traffic calming, air and noise pollution). The platform enables transport planners to initiate bottom-up planning and design of new transport interventions. The process starts with the identification of the problem using participatory sensing (carrying out measurements with the citizens), co-design of the solutions, co-evaluation using the multi-actor multi-criteria analysis methodology and then co-implementing the solutions together with the citizens. In this paper, paper we propose participatory tools and methods that can be applied in participatory transport planning in order to identify the problems (participatory sensing), to collect ideas and solutions (online and off-line co-design) and evaluate the solutions (multi-actor multi-criteria analysis).