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In contrast to the other clusters in MOST, this dealt with two
central instruments of Mobility Management, Mobility Centres and
mobility consulting in four different projects:
- Mobility Management at the Mobility Centre in Lund, Sweden
as part of LundaMaTs, a comprehensive plan for more sustainability
in urban transport.
- WorkWise in Nottingham, United Kingdom to achieve social inclusion
through improving access to employment and training by applying
mobility consulting.
- Company Mobility Plans in Rome, Italy, professional advice
for companies to nominate a mobility co-ordinator and to realise
mobility plans on a large scale
- Mobility Centre in Prague, Czech Republic, a case study to establish
a multi-modal Mobility Centre which integrates existing information
facilities.
Some of the sites have undertaken their projects within larger
programmes (Lund, Rome) or as extensions of existing mobility services
(Nottingham). Whereas Lund and Nottingham have undertaken a thorough
evaluation, Rome is in the phase of implementing travel plans. Prague's
case study provides documentation of their experience in the planning
phase. In addition, four early Mobility Centres in Europe provided
information which gives evidence for a long-term evaluation. The
following Mobility Centres contributed existing data from monitoring
their on-going services: Atcittá Bologna, Italy; MobilZentral Graz,
Austria; Mobilé Muenster, Germany; MobiCenter Wuppertal, Germany.
They acted as information providers in MOST.
Here some highlights on results:
Lund (Sweden) showed that comprehensive city-wide mobility management
plans can create a sustainable-mobility-friendly atmosphere. 9 %
of the inhabitants replaced car trips by more sustainable modes,
resulting in a 1 % reduction of car km per year compared to an increase
of 1-2 % in former years. The ten exemplary Health Bikers who decided
not to use their cars, reduced the distances they travelled by car
by 5.600 km within one year, and 56 % continued biking after 12
months. A fitness test showed an improvement of 10 % in condition.
Rome uses synergies to coordinate mobility services for a large
number of companies. In Nottingham, mobility services for a new
target group, the unemployed, have been explored successfully. The
satisfaction with the combined job and mobility consultancy was
almost 100 % and 35% of the users indicated that taking PT was the
prerequisite for them to get to a job interview on time. Prague
conceptualised the first mobility centre in an accession country
- based on the experiences of other mobility centres involved in
MOST (Bologna, Graz, Münster, Wuppertal). These mobility centres
reported an average of 30% for public knowledge of mobility centres
and continuously rising customer numbers.
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