Deliverable 7.8: Replicability and scale-up analysis

This deliverable explores the scenarios of MUV scalability and replicability on the basis of
the definition of the MUV ecosystem.
The MUV ecosystem is defined as a set of key elements as actors, technologies and
contextual conditions bound by mutual interaction. The exploration of the relationships
within such an ecosystem makes it possible to highlight logical structures and scenarios
that support its functionality, scalability and replicability.
In MUV, Scalability is defined as horizontal (when the number of MUVers in the
ecosystem increases) and vertical (when MUVers’ relationships are consolidated in an
institutional arrangement, that influence the existing institutional levels and make the
expansion and replication of the MUV ecosystem possible). Replicability is defined as the
possibility to replicate the MUV ecosystem structure in all or part of its elements.
The deliverable explores different configurations, or scenarios of aggregation of the key
elements of the ecosystem. In simple scenarios, few key actors are using MUV to play in
the urban context; more complex scenarios can be identified when institutional actors
are part of the ecosystem.
These possible configurations are based on the experience of the pilots during the MUV
project’s lifetime. The deliverable therefore presents the analysis of these real
interactions and the role of the actors in the perspective of outlining a structure of the
MUV Governance Ecosystem.
A key element emerging from this deliverable is the role of the pilot coordinator, which is
at the same time, an agent of change and an ecosystem builder. The analysis of the
activities developed by the MUV pilot coordinators and their competences is here
suggested through the diverse scenarios, inspired by the experiments in the MUV pilots.
In a long term perspective, the activity of pilot coordination could be the analysis of the
activities of pilot coordinators and the competences such activities imply and suggest
that the pilot coordination should be consolidated in Urban Living Labs, which are
institutional places where urban experiments are possible, that allow citizens, public
authorities, technical experts and other stakeholders to imagine future urban mobility
solutions.