Topic Guide: Planning for more resilient and robust urban mobility.

Abstract

This document addresses planning in uncertain times when a major crisis is triggering significant changes in all areas. An immediate crisis can cause further longterm changes and increase the impact of other major trends, such as climate change. Managing such fundamental change processes is a key challenge for urban mobility practitioners to integrate into their plans. In this document, a crisis can be defined as any event that may lead to an unstable and dangerous situation which affects the urban mobility systems or whose impact, duration and severity are affected by the urban mobility system. Crises covered in this guide include, but are not limited to, natural or man-made disasters, pandemics, economic crises, social crises, environmental crisis, terrorism, cyberattacks, geopolitical crises, etc. This document is the attempt to articulate generic lessons from how urban mobility systems responded to and were managed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the onset of the pandemic, public transport use has been severely reduced, while other modes were rising in popularity. It may sound like a platitude, but it is now truer than ever: Due to the inherent uncertainty of future developments, cities must remain flexible. The climate crisis and other major change processes have been disrupting and continue to disrupt the status quo cities. The necessity to handle these uncertainties and impacts will increase in the years to come. While COVID-19 was the initial impetus for the creation of this guide, this document is intended to suggest responses to this crisis but also to contribute to resilience planning for any future crises. More specifically, it aims at including resilience principles in sustainable urban mobility planning (SUMP). The first section of this topic guide first introduces the concept of resilience in the context of urban mobility and the importance of integrating it into the SUMP procedure. It presents the 4 phases of the SUMP cycle with a resilience focus. The second section addresses specific resilience-related themes such as car independent lifestyles, electromobility, collective passenger transport, demand management strategies, road safety, transport telematics and urban freight. This section results from hands-on experiences made by research and innovation projects related to the mentioned topics proposed for short-term and long-term measures, lessons learned and case examples, using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study.Alle Mitarbeitenden: Vasileios Latinos, Marko Horvat, Reggie Tricker (ICLEI Europe), Ann-Marie Nienaber, Andree Woodcock (Coventry University), Pablo Juica, Miriam Monterrubio Hernandez (GIZ Advisors for EUROCLIMA+), Dirk Engels (TML), María José Rojo (POLIS), Yannick Bousse (UITP), Beate Lange (City of Bremen) Evangelia Portouli, Evangelos Karfopoulos (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems), Alvaro García, Emilio José Flores-Sola (MOSAIC), Glenn Godin (Mobiel 21), Bonnie Fenton (Rupprecht Consult), Maria Karmigianni, Luciano Pana Tronca, Ping-Jen Kao, (UCL), Simone Bosetti, Stefano Borgato (TRT) Georgia Ayfantopoulou, Elpida Xenou (CERTH), M. Teresa De la Cruz Eiriz, Beatriz Royo (ZLC) Caroline Busquet (Absiskey), Sergio Fernández Balaguer (EMT Madrid), Javier Burrieza Galán, (Nommon), Jose Maria Salanova, Evripidis Magkos (MOMENTUM project), Marco Mazzarino, (Venice International University), Ebtihal Sheety, (Israel Institute of Technology), Wiktor Zuchowski, Łukasiewicz (ILIM), Carolina Navarro, (Fundación Valenciaport), Martina Hertel (Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik, DIFU), Susan Tully (Edinburgh Napier University), Tünde Hajnal, Balázs Fejes (BKK), Amalia Polydoropoulou (UAegean), Sridhar Raman (Oxfordshire County Council), Ioanna Kourounioti (TU Delft), Mario Gualdi (ISINNOVA)