July 2015 Rupprecht Consult

Challenges in DevelopingSustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs)

• 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.

Introduction

The EU Policy Context

• European leaders have set ambitious targets to tackle climate, environmental and energy problems, e.g. A 20% reduction in EU greenhouse gas emissions

from 1990 levels (Climate and Energy Package 2009)

Halve the use of ‘conventionally fuelled’ cars in urban transport by 2030; phase them out in cities by 2050 (Transport White Paper 2011)

Achieve essentially CO2-free city logistics in major urban centres by 2030 (ibid.)

60% cut in transport emissions by the middle of the century (ibid.)

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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)

The Planning Cycle for a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) …

Source: Rupprecht Consult, 2014

… helps structuring a complex, integrated planning process.

Key characteristics of Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning

Source: Rupprecht Consult, 2014

Integration and cooperation

Balanced planning for all transport modes

Rational selection of effective measures

Monitoring and evaluation

Implementation of plans

Consistent quality assuranceSkills and financial resources for planning

Participation

Assessing the impact of measures and evaluating the mobility planning process

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

Challenges for SustainableUrban Mobility Planning in CH4LLENGE

• 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 to engage stakeholders and citizenso to create partnerships across departments and municipalitieso to select city specific policies and measures and measure packageso to carry out an efficient monitoring and evaluation process

• Develop capacity building material for mainstreaming sustainable urban mobility planning

CH4LLENGE Objectives

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

Photo: M. Lindenau

Challenges in the SUMP process

Participation in SUMP development

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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

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 CH4LLENGE

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 areAvoid 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?

Objectives/Indicators (7)

Assess problems (8)

Possible instruments (9)

Predict impacts (12)

Compare solutions (13)

Implement (15)

Evaluate performance (15)

Monitor (15)

Barriers (10)

Possible strategies (11)

Optimisation (14)

Appraisal (13)

Scenarios

(11)

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 cost-effective 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).

• CH4LLENGE 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, visithttp://www.sump-challenges.eu/

content/online-learning

CH4LLENGE 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 CH4LLENGE online SUMP self-assessment scheme is a tool for understanding your mobility planning progress and achievements

The CH4LLENGE SUMP Self-Assessment Scheme

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• 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

Title: CH4LLENGE – Addressing Key Challenges of Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning

Duration: March 2013 – March 2016

Budget: 2,4m€ (1,8m€ funding from the EU)

Programme: Intelligent Energy Europe

Coordinator: Rupprecht Consult GmbH

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 EnvCom), Amiens Métropole, Brno, Centre for Budapest Transport, Dresden, Ghent, Metro (West Yorkshire), Krakow, Timisoara, Zagreb

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ContactDr Susanne Böhler-Baedeker, Rupprecht Consults.boehler@rupprecht-consult.eu, +49 221 6060 55 14Miriam Lindenau, Rupprecht Consultm.lindenau@rupprecht-consult.eu, +49 221 6060 55 16 www.sump-challenges.eu

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