The project supports cities in shifting their planning practices towards people-centered sustainable urban mobility planning, focusing on active mobility modes and promoting an active and healthy lifestyle for citizens, while reducing emissions from traffic.
Description
Cities in the BSR actively work on the transition to sustainable mobility and efficient urban planning to fight the climate crisis. Car traffic is still favored in existing plans. The project supports cities in shifting their planning practices towards people-centered sustainable urban mobility planning, focusing on active mobility modes and promoting an active and healthy lifestyle for citizens, while reducing emissions from traffic. Special focus lies on small and mid-sized BSR cities in preparing and implementing Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP).
The project aims to increase the uptake of SUMPs as a strategic tool for sustainable mobility planning by developing tools and offering extensive capacity building for local authorities. SUMPs for BSR will develop a common framework on monitoring and evaluation for sustainable urban mobility planning that supports cities in the region to set up sound local processes. This helps to evaluate the performance of the local mobility system and to provide crucial information for planning and decision making. The project will develop a model for cities to test and experiment with innovative mobility solutions focusing on active modes such as walking and cycling and change of public spaces. The overall objective is to support BSR cities to develop urban transport systems that are safe, accessible, inclusive, affordable, smart, resilient, and emission-free.
UBC Sustainable Cities Commission is the lead partner in SUMPs for BSR working on the management and communications of the project.
Activities
The initial phase of the project focused on creating a monitoring and evaluation framework for sustainable urban mobility for local authorities. This framework will be tested and validated during the project and the feedback will be used to make revisions to the final version of it. Addressing the need to promote active mobility and reduce car dominance the project has developed a model for experimenting with active mobility measures which was used to plan the small-scale experiments.
To ensure the long-lasting contribution to the adoption of the SUMP as a tool for planning the urban mobility in small and medium-sized cities and to make the knowledge and insights available to the municipalities across the Baltic Sea Region, the project also developed the concept for the training package on sustainable urban mobility planning which will be utilised to carry out a training programme and the resources will be made available on the Baltic Sea Region SUMP Competence Centre that will be developed within the project.
Funding
SUMPs for BSR is co-funded by Interreg Baltic Sea Region to help local authorities implement sustainable urban mobility planning in decision making.
Project information
SUMPs for BSR aims to support cities in sustainable urban mobility practices, focusing on healthy mobility modes for citizens whilst also reducing emmissions. The project will develop a framework for monitoring and evaluating urban mobility planning. This will provide crucial information for planning and decision making and also evaluate the performance of local mobility systems.