Challenges in Developing Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans SUMPs

Challenges in Developing Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) July 2015 Rupprecht Consult

Introduction • Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP): – strategic document designed to contribute to meeting the European climate and energy targets – builds on planning practices taking account of integration, participation and evaluation principles.

The EU Policy Context • European leaders have set ambitious targets to tackle climate, environmental and energy problems, e. g. ü A 20% reduction in EU greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels (Climate and Energy Package 2009) ü Halve the use of ‘conventionally fuelled’ cars in urban transport by 2030; phase them out in cities by 2050 (Transport White Paper 2011) ü Achieve essentially CO 2 -free city logistics in major urban centres by 2030 (ibid. ) ü 60% cut in transport emissions by the middle of the century (ibid. )

SUMP Policy Elements in the EU • Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) as a strategic instrument to solve urban transport problems and contribute to reaching local, national and European objectives • Various EU policy documents promote and support the take-up of SUMP, e. g. Action Plan on Urban Mobility (2009), Transport White Paper (2011), Urban Mobility Package (2013) • EU Recommendation to all Member States to develop national legal framework for SUMP and support cities • EU facilitates Europe-wide coordination and research and innovation activities for take-up of SUMP • Quality SUMPs are increasingly a pre-condition to attract (major) urban transport funding from EU (incl. Structural and Investment Funds) 4

The Planning Cycle for a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) … … helps structuring a complex, integrated planning process. Source: Rupprecht Consult, 2014

Key characteristics of Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning Skills and financial resources for planning Consistent quality assurance Integration and cooperation Participation Implementation of plans Balanced planning for all transport modes Monitoring and evaluation Rational selection of effective measures Source: Rupprecht Consult, 2014

Challenges for Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning in CH 4 LLENGE Actively involving local stakeholders and citizens in mobility planning processes Improving geographic, political, administrative and interdepartmental cooperation Identifying the most appropriate package of measures to meet a city’s policy objectives Assessing the impact of measures and evaluating the mobility planning process

CH 4 LLENGE Objectives • Support cities across Europe to start sustainable urban mobility planning • Take champion cities to the next level • Learn more about the SUMP process and its major barriers • Identify areas for an effective and efficient planning process • Test new approaches o o to engage stakeholders and citizens to create partnerships across departments and municipalities to select city specific policies and measure packages to carry out an efficient monitoring and evaluation process • Develop capacity building material for mainstreaming sustainable urban mobility planning

The principal barriers for the development of an SUMP • Conflicting institutional roles, vertically and horizontally • Hesitant political commitment to sustainability solutions • Poor integration between policy sectors, e. g. transport & land use • Inappropriate funding for plan preparation and implementation • Limited skills in option generation; undue supply-side emphasis • Limited public support; lack of experience in stakeholder input • Poor data; lack of evidence on performance of new policies Photo: Eltis/ H. Schiffer Photo: M. Lindenau

Challenges in the SUMP process

Participation in SUMP development Promising approaches to improve participation processes are • the development of local participation guidelines and a dedicated participation plan; • a careful selection of participation formats with respect to capacities, target groups and planning phases, and • the critical analysis of participation procedures 12

Institutional Cooperation in SUMP development Promising approaches to improve institutional cooperation are • New institution building; • Local partnerships built on functionality of institutional partners; • Tools to assign responsibilities across partners throughout the plan development and delivery (e. g. RASCI matrix)

Measure selection in CH 4 LLENGE The starting point for measure selection • What are our objectives? • How can we measure them? • What are the problems which we face now and in the future? Answers to these suggest possible measures • Provided that we know which measures are available • And what their impacts are Avoid the temptation to start with the solutions • Politicians often decide what they want to do • E. g. “we need a tram system” The dangers with this • What problems is it designed to overcome? • Will it do so without causing other, more severe problems? • Are there other possible solutions? • Is it the most cost-effective?

Monitoring and Evaluation in SUMP development Promising approaches to improve monitoring and evaluation are • providing method/standardised algorithm for a more systematic process towards M&E and costeffective data collection • sharing best practice examples • differ between large scale monitoring and evaluation in big cities and smaller scale monitoring and evaluation in smaller cities • differ between monitoring and evaluation of small measures (as a more qualitative one) and of bigger measures/ measure packages/ SUMPs (as a more quantitative one).

CH 4 LLENGE Online Learning • CH 4 LLENGE offers a SUMP Basics online course and four in-depth courses on the four challenges • Registration for online courses on project website to learn more about SUMP from the comfort of the office or home For more information, visit http: //www. sumpchallenges. eu/content/online-learning

Is Your Mobility Plan an SUMP? • Test how the mobility plan compares to the Guidelines and the EU's Urban Mobility Package – How will you "ensure the quality and validate compliance of the SUMP with the requirements of the SUMP concept"? (UMP 2013) – Do you meet funding requirements from Structural and Investment Funds and from banks? – How do you compare with other cities? • The CH 4 LLENGE online SUMP self-assessment scheme is a tool for understanding your mobility planning progress and achievements

The CH 4 LLENGE SUMP Self-Assessment Scheme • A transparent concept, based on the EC criteria for SUMP, the Urban Mobility Package and the Guidelines • An online self-assessment free of charge that cities can take at their own pace • An clear assessment of the preparation process and of the plan's content • A simple scoring system of around 100 questions, balanced across the UMP categories to determine the level of compliance, reviewed by DG MOVE 18

Key Facts Title: CH 4 LLENGE – Addressing Key Challenges of Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning Duration: March 2013 – March 2016 Budget: 2, 4 m€ (1, 8 m€ funding from the EU) Programme: Intelligent Energy Europe Coordinator: Rupprecht Consult Gmb. H Partners: Austrian Mobility Research (FGM-AMOR), The Association for Urban Transition (ATU), Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds (ITS), Polis - network of cities and regions for innovative transport solutions, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara (PUT), Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS), Union of the Baltic Cities Commission on Environment (UBC Env. Com), Amiens Métropole, Brno, Centre for Budapest Transport, Dresden, Ghent, Metro (West Yorkshire), Krakow, Timisoara, Zagreb

Join us in workshops and summer schools Learn with us online Expand your horizons Share SUMP project experience @SUMPChallenge Contact Dr Susanne Böhler-Baedeker, Rupprecht Consult s. boehler@rupprecht-consult. eu, +49 221 6060 55 14 Miriam Lindenau, Rupprecht Consult m. lindenau@rupprecht-consult. eu, +49 221 6060 55 16 www. sump-challenges. eu