Climate change, land scarcity and demographic change are placing a variety of demands on transportation planning. At the municipal level, mobility concepts are being used with increasing frequency for this purpose. Compared to the established traffic development plans (VEP), these concepts focus more on continuous planning for people. However, since mobility concepts are a rather new development, there are neither widespread guidelines nor criteria for the development process and content. For this reason, this Master thesis aims to develop quality criteria for integrated municipal mobility concepts (IMK). These criteria can be used by municipalities as a guideline for the tendering and development of high-quality IMK. The aim of the thesis is therefore to answer the question of what is meant by a good mobility concept and which quality criteria it should fulfill.
The development of the quality criteria is based on a literature review, expert interviews and the consideration of implementation and evaluation reports. For the literature research, in addition to literature specifically related to mobility concepts, guidelines on VEPs and sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs) were used due to their relatedness, as well as requirements of various funding programs in this field. For insight into practice, interviews were conducted with five representatives of municipalities as well as three employees of planning offices.
The thesis considers both the process and the content of a mobility concept: the process-related criteria take into account the required prerequisites (structural criteria) as well as process steps and continuous tasks (process criteria). Since the concrete measures must be adapted individually to the needs of the municipality and are therefore only transferable to a very limited extent between mobility concepts, the content-related criteria (concept criteria) focus on topic areas and target directions that a concept should address and the formulation and composition of targets and measures. In addition, result criteria can be identified that distinguish a good mobility concept. In summary, a mobility concept that fulfills the developed quality criteria can be considered good.
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Climate change, land scarcity and demographic change are placing a variety of demands on transportation planning. At the municipal level, mobility concepts are being used with increasing frequency for this purpose. Compared to the established traffic development plans (VEP), these concepts focus more on continuous planning for people. However, since mobility concepts are a rather new development, there are neither widespread guidelines nor criteria for the development process and content. For th...
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