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It is well recognised that transport is an important determinant
of community health in the four main areas of:
- access to jobs, services, healthy food and social activities,
- provides important opportunities for regular physical activity
(walking and cycling),
- high levels of air and noise pollution and
- road safety and road traffic accidents.
The health cluster focused on mobility management measures for
health care sites and contained one demonstrator (Sandwell hospital
in the UK), two case studies (hospital in Namur, Belgium and day
care centres in Navarra, Spain), one information provider (health
clinic in Graz, Austria) and one follower (City of Sarajevo). Sandwell
hospital has tested certain measures in depth to establish their
full impacts. Namur and Navarra have tested a set of new services
in less depth. Mobility management within Graz is not something
new so it was able to provide other sites with information. However,
in cities like Sarajevo, mobility management is still a new concept
and is not well recognised. The following sections show how sites
have developed the concept of mobility management.
Here some highlights on results:
A lesson learned from Sandwell (UK), Namur (BE) and Graz (A) is that
designing and applying Mobility Management services require qualified
and motivated staff, good internal and external coordination (stakeholders).
Discounted public transport passes for hospital employees in Sandwell
helped to increase the share of public transport by 14 %. There was
a huge potential for electric scooter use (after a free test month,
38 % purchased a scooter). A full time mobility co-ordinator works
as well as a working group of enthusiastic dedicated individuals.
Navarra (Spain) and Sarajevo showed how barriers to transportation
for disabled persons can be removed (e.g. adaptation of 35 % of the
buses in Navarra), but there is still a lot more to do to make them
autonomously mobile. |
Sarah Wixey 
