Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SPROUT (Sustainable Policy RespOnse to Urban mobility Transition)
Período documentado: 2019-09-01 hasta 2021-02-28
Europe’s urban population is expected to increase from 73% in 2014 to over 80% in 2050. As the world continues to urbanise, sustainable development challenges will be increasingly concentrated in cities. The changing urban mobility environment places a considerable challenge for urban policy making as little is known about changing user needs. Also, the new business models do not fit clearly within the existing rules, their policy impacts, environmental, social or economic benefits are still unclear. Cities, rather than national governments, are more likely to lead change and innovation in the transport system, as they have more regulatory freedom to deal with innovative transport providers, are better aware of the city-specific innovation aspects, and can at the same time stimulate urban mobility innovation and ensure the delivery of social benefits.
Looking at the very nature of the emerging urban mobility solutions, it becomes clear that previously tested and implemented policy responses employing access restrictions, congestion charging or infrastructure provision, are not adequate to address the changes underway. What is required therefore, is a new, city-led innovative policy response that considers all limitations and shortcomings.
To address the challenges and to reach the expected impacts of LC-MG-1-3-2018, SPROUT aims to produce new and practice-based knowledge & tools to navigate urban mobility policy through transition, and to use this to contribute to an evidence-based policy making at local/regional, national & EU levels. To achieve its aim, the project will pursue the following project objectives:
1.Understand the transition in European urban mobility (paseenger and freight), by quantifying the current status, and defining the transition drivers to the future.
2.Foresee and determine the impact of urban mobility drivers on urban policy.
3.Formulate a city-led innovative policy response, that is widely applicable to European cities, to navigate urban mobility in transition.
4.Provide tools to contribute to an evidence-based policy making and enhance local policy making capacity.
5.Navigate future policy by channelling project results into future EU policy initiatives.
SPROUT employs a 3-layer cities’ engagement approach.
Looking at the very nature of the emerging urban mobility solutions, it becomes clear that previously tested and implemented policy responses employing access restrictions, congestion charging or infrastructure provision, are not adequate to address the changes underway. What is required therefore, is a new, city-led innovative policy response that considers all limitations and shortcomings.
To address the challenges and to reach the expected impacts of LC-MG-1-3-2018, SPROUT aims to produce new and practice-based knowledge & tools to navigate urban mobility policy through transition, and to use this to contribute to an evidence-based policy making at local/regional, national & EU levels. To achieve its aim, the project will pursue the following project objectives:
1.Understand the transition in European urban mobility (paseenger and freight), by quantifying the current status, and defining the transition drivers to the future.
2.Foresee and determine the impact of urban mobility drivers on urban policy.
3.Formulate a city-led innovative policy response, that is widely applicable to European cities, to navigate urban mobility in transition.
4.Provide tools to contribute to an evidence-based policy making and enhance local policy making capacity.
5.Navigate future policy by channelling project results into future EU policy initiatives.
SPROUT employs a 3-layer cities’ engagement approach.
During the first 18 months, SPROUT progressed in its main aim of providing a city-led innovative policy response able to harness the impacts of new mobility solutions ias follows:
• Understanding transition in urban mobility (WP2). SROUT has developed an inventory of the factors that are used by each of the SPROUT cities as a common framework to collect and integrate data. This allowed the project to get an overview of the urban mobility situation in the 1st and 2nd -layer SPROUT cities, and overview of the urban mobility transition drivers and their level of importance, and an overview of the locally relevant stakeholders.
• Determining the impacts of emerging urban mobility environments (WP3). In order to come to appropriate city-led policy responses in the later stages of the project, SPROUT developed city-specific ‘do-nothing’ scenarios for 2030 that describe the possible development of the urban mobility system in the 1st-layer cities if no new policies are introduced to harness transition the 5 future city-specific scenarios were co-created following a cross- impact balance analysis and participatory approaches. Their sustainability and policy impacts were also assessed. Scenarios are an important intermediate result, providing a holistic, systemic and participatory analysis of the future mobility landscape. They form a base to better understand the impacts of policy making in the pilot cities and are the basis of the setup of the pilot use cases.
• Regarding the latter, a Pilots’ evaluation framework has been developed in order to assess the impacts of 9 innovative urban mobility solutions implemented in 5 SPROUT pilot cities (WP4). The project is now progressing in the use cases running and testing.
• SPROUT has successfully set up an Open Innovation Community on Urban Mobility Policy (WP8).
• Understanding transition in urban mobility (WP2). SROUT has developed an inventory of the factors that are used by each of the SPROUT cities as a common framework to collect and integrate data. This allowed the project to get an overview of the urban mobility situation in the 1st and 2nd -layer SPROUT cities, and overview of the urban mobility transition drivers and their level of importance, and an overview of the locally relevant stakeholders.
• Determining the impacts of emerging urban mobility environments (WP3). In order to come to appropriate city-led policy responses in the later stages of the project, SPROUT developed city-specific ‘do-nothing’ scenarios for 2030 that describe the possible development of the urban mobility system in the 1st-layer cities if no new policies are introduced to harness transition the 5 future city-specific scenarios were co-created following a cross- impact balance analysis and participatory approaches. Their sustainability and policy impacts were also assessed. Scenarios are an important intermediate result, providing a holistic, systemic and participatory analysis of the future mobility landscape. They form a base to better understand the impacts of policy making in the pilot cities and are the basis of the setup of the pilot use cases.
• Regarding the latter, a Pilots’ evaluation framework has been developed in order to assess the impacts of 9 innovative urban mobility solutions implemented in 5 SPROUT pilot cities (WP4). The project is now progressing in the use cases running and testing.
• SPROUT has successfully set up an Open Innovation Community on Urban Mobility Policy (WP8).
The ambition of SPROUT is to guide cities along the policy cycle and to go beyond the state of the art in understanding and responding to the impacts of new mobility innovations on policy making, as follows:
1. Has defined the drivers of urban mobility transition and the stakeholders affected per impact area, delived city-specific future urban mobility scenarios, and assessed the adequacy and identified the shortcomings of the existing policy framework to effectively harness the impacts of emerging mobility solutions.
2. SPROUT has provided solid evidence for the impact of innovative mobility solutions at the city level by developing scenarios that consider the possible development of the main drivers of urban mobility, the current policy framework, the wide range of stakeholders, and will develop appropriate policy responses that consider both external drivers and internal factors.
3. SPROUT will fefine a minimum set of data to drive evidence-based urban mobility policy making, customised to the data capabilities of both rich- and poor data environments. The project will design an urban mobility shared data space for both passenger and freight transport, as a blueprint for setting up an ecosystem-based mechanism to provide urban mobility data in a harmonised way and populate it with data from the project’s partner cities. SPROUT will deliver a multigranular (big & small) data-driven approach to provide descriptive & predictive analytics for scanning weak signals (early indicators) of emerging urban mobility changes.
4. SPROUT will offer currently missing evidence on the sustainability and policy impacts of a number of urban mobility innovations based on an overarching evaluation, monitoring, and data collection framework and new data sources to enable evidence-based policy making.
5. SPROUT will build new knowledge & offer training covering various policy making stages, focusing on data interpretation, data source harmonisation, and on the improvement, understanding and acceptability of alternative data sources. SPROUT will also deliver an Urban Policy Toolbox to be used for building capacity on recognising the benefits and appropriate use of tools either been developed as part of the project or were already available and have proven their value in the policy facilitating activities of SPROUT.
6. SPROUT will go beyond the effort done in other projects and initiatives by systematically involving stakeholders in all stages of the planning process through co-creation and participatory evaluation.
7. SPROUT will offer a methodology to formulate city-led innovative policy response by analysing the underlying urban policy model to understand how policies impact the urban mobility environment through a systems dynamics model and by looking beyond urban mobility, at factors that drive urban mobility from other domains (e.g. technology, digitalisation, societal changes etc.) by creating plausible and possible urban mobility scenarios.
8. In SPROUT, the evaluation and monitoring of the test cases will put emphasis on the social impact and involvement of disadvantaged groups in co-creating & implementing the solution (digitally illiterate, elderly, low-income).
1. Has defined the drivers of urban mobility transition and the stakeholders affected per impact area, delived city-specific future urban mobility scenarios, and assessed the adequacy and identified the shortcomings of the existing policy framework to effectively harness the impacts of emerging mobility solutions.
2. SPROUT has provided solid evidence for the impact of innovative mobility solutions at the city level by developing scenarios that consider the possible development of the main drivers of urban mobility, the current policy framework, the wide range of stakeholders, and will develop appropriate policy responses that consider both external drivers and internal factors.
3. SPROUT will fefine a minimum set of data to drive evidence-based urban mobility policy making, customised to the data capabilities of both rich- and poor data environments. The project will design an urban mobility shared data space for both passenger and freight transport, as a blueprint for setting up an ecosystem-based mechanism to provide urban mobility data in a harmonised way and populate it with data from the project’s partner cities. SPROUT will deliver a multigranular (big & small) data-driven approach to provide descriptive & predictive analytics for scanning weak signals (early indicators) of emerging urban mobility changes.
4. SPROUT will offer currently missing evidence on the sustainability and policy impacts of a number of urban mobility innovations based on an overarching evaluation, monitoring, and data collection framework and new data sources to enable evidence-based policy making.
5. SPROUT will build new knowledge & offer training covering various policy making stages, focusing on data interpretation, data source harmonisation, and on the improvement, understanding and acceptability of alternative data sources. SPROUT will also deliver an Urban Policy Toolbox to be used for building capacity on recognising the benefits and appropriate use of tools either been developed as part of the project or were already available and have proven their value in the policy facilitating activities of SPROUT.
6. SPROUT will go beyond the effort done in other projects and initiatives by systematically involving stakeholders in all stages of the planning process through co-creation and participatory evaluation.
7. SPROUT will offer a methodology to formulate city-led innovative policy response by analysing the underlying urban policy model to understand how policies impact the urban mobility environment through a systems dynamics model and by looking beyond urban mobility, at factors that drive urban mobility from other domains (e.g. technology, digitalisation, societal changes etc.) by creating plausible and possible urban mobility scenarios.
8. In SPROUT, the evaluation and monitoring of the test cases will put emphasis on the social impact and involvement of disadvantaged groups in co-creating & implementing the solution (digitally illiterate, elderly, low-income).