Research Theme Analysis Report Urban Mobility

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4 R e s e a r c h T h e m e A n a l y s i s R e p o r t U r b a n M o b i l i t y Executive summary This is the first in the new series of Research Theme Analysis Reports produced under the new Transport Research & Innovation Portal (TRIP) Continuation project for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG-MOVE). It covers the research theme Urban Mobility. The purpose of TRIP is to collect, structure, analyse and disseminate the results of EU-supported transport research and research financed nationally in the European Research Area (ERA), together with selected global research programmes. The TRIP web portal can be found at www.transport-research.info The purpose of this Research Theme Analysis Report is to provide an overview of research performed (mostly) in the EU collated by the TRIP, providing a view across many projects that fall under the theme. It provides an assessment of the reported results from the research projects, giving scientific and policy perspectives. The theme of Urban Mobility has been divided into seven subthemes, as follows: • accessibility; • freight transport; • intelligent transport systems (ITS); • low carbon transport technologies; • sustainable public transport; • Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs); • urban land use. The key findings from a scientific perspective are: • There is a common trend toward an increasingly integrated approach to urban mobility research. This is particularly evident in the research on SUMPs, freight transport and ITS. This level of integration is likely to increase further and to be applied across all aspects of urban mobility. • There is a need to continue to develop and deploy vehicle technologies optimised for use in an urban environment, particularly for urban freight transport (e.g. electric microvans, cargo bikes). • Significant progress continues to be made in the development and demonstration of the use of new vehicle technologies, particularly electric and hydrogen-fuelled zero emission vehicles. • Multimodal passenger transport solutions to improve public transport have received significant attention and have been demonstrated in a number of projects, in particular under the CIVITAS (City, Vitality, Sustainability) programme. • There has been a wider involvement of key stakeholders in research projects, such as private freight companies in urban logistics projects and projects in the SUMPs area. However, a greater involvement is still needed, particularly in transposing business models and practices into policy schemes. • In the area of SUMPs, the funding priorities should focus more on how to create an ‘ideal’ SUMP, how to analyse the impacts of these plans and of their particular tools and packages of measures, the further use of ITS and intelligent personalised data, new effective tools for
R e s e a r c h T h e m e A n a l y s i s R e p o r t U r b a n M o b i l i t y 5 supporting sustainable mobility and analysis of transport behaviour, mode choice awareness raising and stakeholder involvement. The key findings from a policy perspective are: • The trends in research on accessibility show a clear shift from issues primarily related to the disabled to a broader focus on people with reduced mobility, such as the elderly. This provides an indication of the focus that will be required in future urban developments in Europe to address the challenges of an ageing population. • The evolving requirements for urban freight transport (e.g. as a result of e-commerce) need to be taken into account in land-use and transport planning, as well as local economic development strategies. • There is a need to develop an adequate and appropriate infrastructure to support developments in urban freight transport, not only for new concepts for consolidating and delivering goods, but also to support the use of electric freight vehicles operating in urban areas (cargo bicycles and other two-wheeled vehicles, and micro e-vans). The deployment of a charging infrastructure within the whole management and business models for electric freight vehicles are crucial issues to be addressed to boost use among logistic operators and thus achieve a more sustainable urban mobility. • The ITS domain has addressed and developed a number of specific applications. However, to support an effective and sustainable integration of urban freight transport into urban network management, additional research effort should be carried out on data collection for planning and policy formulation. Models for data sharing and cost-efficient data collection on urban freight should be considered. Thisalso requires legal expertise related to privacy and competition issues. • The data privacy aspects, payment allocations and the role of organising bodies with regard to international use of public transport ticketing systems should be clarified. This area of research should cover equity, institutional and market organisation issues rather than pure technical or economic issues. • Policy intervention may be required for setting standards in the ITS sector to ensure that the technology is able to deliver the expected safety, user satisfaction and competitiveness benefits. In particular, policy is required in relation to autonomous vehicles. This concerns the safety and quality standards for information exchanged between vehicles, infrastructure and control centres. It also includes the question of responsibility in case of a collision involving an autonomous vehicle. Eventually, the question of driving licences with the use of selfdriving cars or the condition of the driver will need to be addressed by policy. • To date, there is little agreement on the minimum requirements for a SUMP. There is a need to agree on common European standards, to prepare a list of appropriate measures and packages of measures with clear analyses of their various impacts, and to contribute to more precise and easier-to-do evaluations and monitoring of the implementation of SUMPs.
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