L’Hospitalet, with more than 290.000 inhabitants, is one of the highest dense cities in Europe (22,7k inhab./km2). The city is located in a continuous urban net, next street by street to Barcelona city. Narrow streets, complex urban morphology and lack of green spaces makes difficulty for healthy conditions in the city. Mobility strengths because of its configuration is that 42% of the trips are on foot or by bike, 25% by private transport, and 33% by public transport, but poor air quality which affects vulnerable groups makes the city aimed to further reduce car dependency, increasing considerably the use of bike for short and medium trips. The city is within AMB’s Low Emission Zone (LEZ) which restricts entrance to most polluting vehicles since 2020, with the focus on a higher restriction in 2028.
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L’Hospitalet is one of the lead cities in the Dynamicity project, located in functional an urban area of climate-neutral cities. Hosting one of the principal oncological hubs in the state, its participation will focus in action thorugh walking and cycling and it’s research for cancer prevention and therapy by implementing a personalised and gamified active travel prescription pathways, integrating AMM into treatment plans, by organising neighbourhood walking groups facilitated by community health workers, and working on a route optimisation tool avoiding pollution hotspots.
