The Compliance Map is a regulatory supportive tool aimed at showing practical synthesis of the similarities and differences, across different regulatory schemes that share the common focus goal of enabling newly emerging disruptive innovations.

The Compliance Map shows:

• The  Regulation Compliance (RC) meaningful to represent how effectively each country or city regulate the different aspects necessary for the sustainable adoption of the new mobility solutions (namely Infrastructural, Political, Data, User/consumer awareness and acceptance, Safety, Completeness of pilots and contracts requirements, Environmental, Social, Cooperation, Others).
• The Regulation Readiness (RR) meaningful to represent a holistic assessment of the level of readiness of each country's regulatory framework to accommodate the introduction or diffusion of different mobility solutions according to their penetration levels.
• Entrance Barriers for different mobility services, business models and technologies.

Regulation Compliance - Countries View and Cities view (first two boxes)

What you will find

The RC is presented by making reference to two jurisdictional levels: Countries level and Cities level. For each of these views, mobility solutions relevant for that jurisdictional level are presented.

What you can do

From these views you can:

• Visualise the RC index for each highlighted country/city by selecting the overall RC or one of its evaluation category-component from the “Evaluation Category” drop-down list on the right side of the window.
• Select the mobility solution to which RC (or its components selected in the previous point) relates from the “Mobility Solution” bullet point on the right side of the window.
• Hover your mouse over each Country or City: a pop-up window will appear showing the information about Country/City Name, Value of the RC or the selected evaluation category-component, Brief explanation of the regulatory approach, Main Regulatory text, URL to the main regulatory text.
  If you double click on the Country/City, you can fix the pop-up window and click on the URL to be redirected to the Regulatory text (or a relevant news on that, especially for non-originally English webpage).

Understanding and interpreting results

In general, a high value of either the overall RC indicator (or a single evaluation category score composing it) means that the related regulatory framework is effective in enabling the mobility solution (the former from a general point of view, the latter from a specific perspective) and vice versa.

To give an example, if in the Compliance Map we select the evaluation category "Completeness of pilots and contract requirements" and the mobility solution " E-scooter sharing/ Micromobility", we see that Stockholm scores very low because the market is currently unregulated and no permit from the City is needed to put a fleet of shared e-scooters on the streets.

On the other hand, if we look at Chicago, we see that the capital of Illinois obtains among the highest scores compared to other cities because it has launched a multi-year programme of pilots to evaluate how and under what conditions and requirements e-scooter companies can contribute to the pursuit of the objectives of accessibility, safety, sustainability etc.

Regulation Readiness - Countries View and Cities view (third box)

What you will find

The Regulation Readiness (RR) represents a holistic assessment of the level of readiness of each country's regulatory framework to accommodate the introduction or diffusion of different mobility solutions according to their penetration levels. The RR is referred to the country level. It combines all of the regulations (local, regional, national) and relative analysis pertaining to each country.

What you can do

Similar to the RC, it is possible to visualise the RR index for each coloured country/city by selecting the overall RC or one of its evaluation category-component from the drop-down list.

Furthermore, through the use of different sliders on the right side of the window, you will be able to select every possible combination of mobility solutions penetration. As a result, the Compliance Map will automatically update the values of RR obtained for that combination.

Understanding and interpreting results

In general, a higher value of the RR means that the related regulatory framework is more ready to accommodate the selected combination of mobility solutions penetration.

Note to the user:

Since the RR is calculated as the average of the values obtained from the different regulations collected for each country, the reliability of the RR values also depends on whether regulations for each of the mobility solutions have been collected and analysed for each country. In the two figures shown above, for example, the RR value for the USA is always the highest. This is due to the fact that, in the current state of development of the regulations database feeding the Compliance Map, regulations in the USA have been collected for almost all of the mobility solutions.

However, the work of collecting and analysing regulations will continue with the aim at providing the more reliable results possible.

Barriers (separate webpage)

What you will find

The webpage dedicated to the barriers presents the entrance barriers that may occur in mobility services uptake providing a qualitative but structured methodology, representing aspects influencing the adoption/deployment of the mobility solutions studied in GECKO from diverse, mutually interdependent, viewpoints: Political, Economic, Societal, Technological, Legal and Environmental. This analysis is aimed at providing an overview of the main difficulties faced by these innovations, supporting decision on policies to be adopted to pave the way for a sustainable adoption of a particular innovation.

Barriers are shown as separate content, so it is shown in the GECKO website through a dedicated link:

What you can do

You can select one or more mobility solutions to visualize:

• Name of the case study
• Barrier name
• Description of the barrier.

Each description of the barrier presents a brief text coloured according to the barrier type (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental).

Furthermore, by hovering the mouse on the description text, a pop-up window will be displayed, illustrating example of solutions and best practices adopted to overcome that barrier.

Guidelines long version