June 3, 2022
Urban mobility is a hot topic – in the truest sense of the word: traffic emissions, for example from private transport, contribute significantly to heating up our climate. Many municipal stakeholders have therefore set themselves the goal of improving road traffic in such a way that exhaust emissions are reduced. This was also evident in the challenges you sent us as part of the Discovery Challenge with Motius. Many of the questions submitted for the competition revolved around how an organization can make urban transport more sustainable – whether as a city or as a housing company.
Together with the winners, we ultimately devoted ourselves to a central “How can we…” question in a workshop: How can we combine the knowledge of different actors and and roles in and roles in a city together and evaluate them so that every municipal organization knows which task or which contribution contribution to sustainable mobility can make for citizens?
The answer: three different solution sketches, which we were able to draw thanks to the creative input from the municipal participants in the workshop.
The first solution, “Stadtläufer”, forms a platform – for example in the form of an app – via which citizens*inside traffic-related grievances from Everyday situations whether a connection is never reached, a bench is needed in the park or bicycle parking spaces are missing. This means that decision-makers can always find out exactly what citizens need or want most urgently – and thus make small adjustments to make cities more citizen- and public welfare-oriented. The citizen-oriented data situation makes it possible to make more sustainable decisions in the long term after processing the data via an urban data platform.
A further development of this idea is the “city decision-maker”. In addition to the opportunity for citizens to share their opinions, other data sources are integrated here: from sharing providers, from camera sensors or via vehicle fleets. By linking data in certain areas, dashboards can provide citizens and decision-makers with an overview of a complex data situation at a glance.
The third part of the solution is a ticket vending machine for sharing offers. To avoid complex and diverse registration processes to registration process, can users via ticketmachines similar like in the PUBLIC TRANSPORT uniform Access to SharingOffered receive.
Any questions? Need more information? In this document you will find a detailed explanation of the proposals as well as benefits, costs and open questions in relation to each of the solutions listed.
Would you like to develop or use similar ideas to make transportation in your city or municipality more community-oriented and sustainable? We will be happy to advise you as municipalities and municipal subsidiaries so that you can start implementing solutions as quickly as possible – simply contact us using the contact form.