SUMP and Digital Tools: How Novoville Mobility Supports Municipalities

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The Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) serve as the strategic guide for organizing transport in hundreds of Greek municipalities. They were established as a mandatory planning tool for urban areas with more than 100,000 residents and are voluntarily adopted by smaller municipalities pursuing sustainable development. But a SUMP remains a strategy document without digital implementation tools.

Novoville Mobility doesn't replace the SUMP — it turns it into an operational system. It provides the technological fabric within which the municipal mobility strategy is implemented.

What a SUMP Is and What It Isn't

A SUMP is a strategy document that sets out goals, measures, and timelines for improving urban mobility. It covers topics such as:

  • Reducing private car use
  • Strengthening public transport and cycling
  • Improving conditions for pedestrians
  • Reducing CO₂ emissions from transport
  • Developing Park & Ride

What a SUMP does not include is how to implement this at the digital level: how a citizen will buy a bus ticket and rent a bike through a single app, how CO₂ savings will be measured, how they will be motivated to change habits.

The Platform as a SUMP Implementation Tool

Each Novoville Mobility service corresponds to one or more goals that typically appear in a SUMP:

Parking

Digitally managed controlled parking reduces demand for parking spaces in the city center, indirectly discouraging private car use for short trips. The Park & Ride feature — parking on the outskirts and continuing into the center by public transport or bike — is a classic SUMP measure directly supported by the platform.

Bike Sharing

Through Cyclopolis/Brainbox, partner municipalities integrate cycling into the urban fabric. Novoville Mobility provides real-time availability, in-app rental, and e-wallet payment — removing barriers to use.

Urban Transit (Bus Ticketing)

The GMV integration for issuing bus tickets through the app makes public transport more accessible. Combined with real-time route information, citizens can plan their entire journey without opening a second app.

Green Points — The Bridge Between SUMP and Citizen

The most innovative mechanism: every time a citizen chooses a bike, bus, or shared vehicle instead of a private car, they earn points. Points convert into money in the e-wallet or into discounts. The system also measures CO₂ savings per trip, giving citizens a visible impact of their choices.

How Partner Municipalities Use the Platform

None of the partner municipalities deploy all services at once. Each municipality selects the package that fits its SUMP strategy and the city's characteristics:

🏛 Athens / Kifissia

  • Controlled parking
  • Park & Ride
  • Green Points
  • E-wallet

🚢 Piraeus

  • Controlled parking
  • Multimodal routing
  • Green Points

🌊 Volos

  • Bike sharing
  • Bus ticketing
  • Green Points
  • E-wallet

🏔 Trikala

  • Bike sharing
  • Bus ticketing
  • Green Points

Data as a Policy Tool

Beyond serving citizens, the platform generates anonymized mobility data that helps municipalities assess progress toward their SUMP goals. The statistical analysis algorithms (D6.6) generate reports on:

  • Change in modal split (the percentage share of each transport mode)
  • Total CO₂ savings per municipality
  • Effectiveness of rewards by user category
  • Spatial distribution of trips

This data didn't exist before — municipalities used to design mobility policy based on traffic counts and subjective estimates. Novoville Mobility brings evidence-based mobility policy to Greek local government.