A new ‘Mobility hotel’ that will facilitate the quiet and emission-free transport of goods and people is opening in one of Sweden’s largest shopping and business centres.

The site enables craftsmen and service companies to use micromobility and bicycles to perform their services

Located at the Nordstan centre in Gothenburg, the site provides a blueprint for how investment in combined micromobility and micrologistics can make everyday transportation smoother and more sustainable.

Every day, 70,000 people pass through Nordstan, located adjacent to the central station and Brunnsparken, a key public transport hub. Some 6,000 people have their workplace in the business centre.

The Mobility Hotel is located to enable direct connection to Nordstan’s underground loading street for larger vehicles. It enables efficient reloading for last-mile delivery of goods via bicycle and light electric vehicles in central Gothenburg.

In the store premises, Bike Fixx and Urbancorner will sell and service bicycles, electric bicycles, electric scooters and other micromobility vehicles. Next door, in the car park, GoCiklo offers electric mopeds and quick battery swaps, used by online food delivery brand Foodora among others.

The site includes bicycle transport company Pling, offering green last-mile-delivery, and the wholesaler Ahlsells with a small, unmanned warehouse for craftsmen. In addition, there are a number of transport bikes that the City of Gothenburg lends to craft and service companies.

The vision behind the Mobility Hotel is to enable the necessary transition to more sustainable transport and sustainable urban development. According to the City of Gothenburg’s environment and climate programme, motorised traffic in the city must reduce by 25% by 2030.

Anastazia Kronberg, process manager at Business Region Gothenburg, said: “The unique thing about the Mobility Hotel is the high level of innovation. In addition to combining personal mobility and micrologistics in the same place, we now give craftsmen and service companies good opportunities to use micromobility and bicycles to perform their services. We also build bridges between mobility companies, the city, retail and the real estate industry.

“I am convinced that new roles, value chains and business models will emerge here. This is exactly what we need to see for the green transition to accelerate.”

The investment in the Mobility Hotel in Nordstan is co-financed through the Move21 EU project, which aims to transform European cities into smart nodes for smart, clean and efficient mobility and logistics.