Conventional approaches to mobility planning, based on the forecast-led paradigm, have led to unrealised expectations concerning alleviating problems such as congestion and delivering economic, social and environmental outcomes.
Breaking news: The Triple Access Planning for Uncertain Futures – A Handbook for Practitioners is now published!
Research shows plans become rapidly obsolete and lack resilience with regard to future developments. The research project Triple Access Planning for Uncertain Futures aims to improve Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs), addressing both the movement of people and goods, through two significant new considerations:
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Triple Access Planning (TAP) – future sustainable urban accessibility can be achieved through the transport system (physical mobility), the land-use system (spatial proximity) and the telecommunications system (digital connectivity); together constituting a Triple Access System (TAS).
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Accommodating uncertainty – unpredictable change dynamics such as demographics, economic developments, locational choices, regulatory context, technological breakthroughs, travel demand, and stakeholder behaviour can be explicitly taken into account in the plan, in terms of development and implementation.
Triple Access Planning for Uncertain Futures is a three-year pan-European project, running between May 2021 and April 2024.
The project will critically examine existing urban mobility planning, and advance guidance to improve the resilience and adaptability of sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMP) in the face of uncertainty. Central to the work is a focus upon the tripartite contribution to accessibility in our towns and cities of physical mobility, spatial proximity and digital connectivity.