polisMOBILITY launches new round of call for best practices

Event is looking for prime examples of the transport transition in local authorities

The polisMOBILITY expo & conference will take place from 11 to 12 June 2025 and will be hosted once again in Cologne. The organisers are launching the second round of its call for best practices in preparation for the forthcoming edition of the event: Municipal administrations, transport companies, local authority-owned companies and civil society initiatives are invited to submit their pioneering, exemplary projects for implementing the transport transition at the local authority level. Successful applicants will secure the opportunity to give a short talk on the citySTAGE. The organisers are looking for already operational, adaptable projects that offer smart solutions to the challenges of the transport transition – from urban logistics to shared mobility and charging infrastructure. Applicants have until 28 February 2025 to put their submissions forward.

Successfully implementing the transport transition is a process that needs to take place at the local and district levels. This work is under way in our towns and cities, municipalities and rural districts. Across the globe, growing numbers of innovative municipal administrations, transport companies, local authority-owned companies and civil society initiatives are facing up to the challenges and putting tailor-made solutions for sustainable mobility into action with creativity, courage and a clear grasp of the issues at stake.

With its call for best practices, polisMOBILITY is giving these pioneers a stage where they can present their concepts at the leading cross-sector dialogue platform for the transport transition in urban areas from 11 to 12 June 2025. This is a unique opportunity for local actors to share their successes and challenges, learn from each other and inspire other cities and regions. Many cities and local authorities responded to polisMOBILITY’s call for best practices in 2024: From 28 submissions, 15 outstanding ventures were selected, including projects by the City of Aachen, the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the former federal capital Bonn, and the City of Leipzig.

Actors at the local authority level have until 28 February 2025 to put forward their exemplary projects and apply for a slot in the conference programme (15 minutes + discussion) on the citySTAGE, the central forum in the cityLOUNGE section of the exhibition. The call goes out to municipal administrations and local authorities, municipal subsidiaries such as local utilities or transport companies, regional associations and their cooperation partners from business and civil society. The projects will be selected by the end of March 2025. The Association of German Cities (Deutscher Städtetag) and the German Association of Towns and Municipalities (Deutscher Städte- und Gemeindebund) are actively supporting the call for best practices. Both associations will be represented on the expert jury, alongside independent authorities in the field and the polisMOBILITY team.

All the submissions will also be presented in a poster exhibition within the cityLOUNGE, creating an excellent starting point for discussions with other actors. To accompany this central exhibition, cities and local authorities will showcase their work around the poster exhibition in the cityLOUNGE.

Further information on the call for best practices, including details on how to apply, can be found on the polisMOBILITY website: https://www.polis-mobility.com/events/polismobility-conference/call-for-best-practices.

The polisMOBILITY expo & conference is the leading cross-sector dialogue platform for the transport transition in urban areas. As the only cross-sector exhibition and conference format in the German-speaking region with a clear commitment to public-private partnerships, polisMOBILITY is the link that brings both sides together. With its cross-modal approach and focus on concrete solutions, it offers a platform for moving from sector-siloed individualism to joint action.