MAX - Overview

The MAX-project ran from 2006 to 2009 and was the largest research project on Mobility Management within the EU’s sixth framework programme (link). The MAX consortium, of 28 partners, served to extend, standardise and improve Mobility Management – it did so in the fields of quality management, campaigns, evaluation, modelling and land use planning.

In these fields, MAX produced new research results – but also a whole array of tools.

The max-website aims to give you a quick overview over the research, whereas the tools are all to be found on the EPOMM-website.

MAX and EPOMM

A unique aspect of MAX is that it is not one of the many projects that just “finish” when the funding runs out. On the contrary, it is one of the few projects that will continue its dissemination well beyond the end of the project. That is because much of the work in MAX was directly endorsed by the European Platform on Mobility Management (EPOMM) and continues to be supported by them – in order to provide truly Europe-wide growth, standardisation and dissemination of Mobility Management.

Max project structure

On the graph below the structure of the project in terms of workpackages and workflow, in brackets the Workpackage leaders.

There were four thematic workpackages

• WP A Successful Travel Awareness Campaigns & mobility Management Strategies:
  developed the tools MaxTag
• WP B Models of Behaviour Change and Prospective Assessment Tools
  developed the tools MaxExplorer, MaxSumo, MaxEva and MaxSem
• WP C A Quality Management Approach for MM in Medium and Small Size Cities
  developed the tool MaxQ
• WP D Integrating Mobility Management and land use planning
  developed the tool MaxLupo

Accompanying WP 1-4 integrated the research efforts. MAX started in October 2006 and finished with the final conference in Cracow, Poland.

The project consortium brought wide experience of involvement in previous MM and TA projects. Partners came from a total of 16 countries and there was a particular emphasis on the new EU member states (NMS). See map below, the list of project partners can be found here.

Project acronym: MAX

Project full title: Successful Travel Awareness Campaigns and Mobility Management Strategies

Proposal/Contract no.: 518368

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MAX is financed by the European Commission's Directorate General for Energy and Transport, Clean Transport and Transport Development Unit.