CLIENT: Driving Urban Transition DUT – Funded by European Commission and National governments
PERIOD: 2025 – 2027 (ongoing)
PolicyMix4Mobility aims to create an inter- and transdisciplinary understanding of policy mixes and their effects based on policy packages that promote sustainable mobility practices and reduce car use in urban areas. This work is informed by a novel conceptual framework, bridging qualitative (case studies), quantitative (modelling) and transdisciplinary (urban labs, forum) methodological approaches to assess existing policy mixes and develop prospective ones.
The project involves four European cities of different sizes and diverse socio-spatial conditions and policy contexts, located in Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, and Italy. While they differ in terms of progress towards sustainable mobility, but they share the common ambition to reduce car dependency and promote climate-neutral, socially just urban mobility systems.
The project will first develop a conceptual basis for a better understanding of policy mixes aimed at reducing car dependency as well as a monitoring and evaluation framework for assessing the direct and indirect effects of such policy mixes. These will inform the empirical analyses performed through case studies in the four cities and the organization of urban labs. The case studies will enable the collection, analysis, and assessment of qualitative and quantitative data about policy mixes to reduce car dependency and their effects on mobility transitions.
To improve the understanding of the effects of mobility and transport policy measures with a strategic approach, the project will also apply the MOMOS assessment tool. In particular, the model will be enhanced with the aim to integrate wellbeing, inclusion, and social equality dimensions into the quantitative modelling of the effects of policy mixes and their co-benefits. A tailored model application will be set up for each context: Collegno, Italy, Fürstenwalde/Spree, Germany, Limassol, Cyprus, and Odense, Denmark. Different policy mixes will then be tested to explore their impacts on different domains (transport, environment, energy, economy, society), allowing to compare the quantitative effects up to the year 2035 and explore synergies, timing, and/or sequencing of policies and their countereffects to achieve effective implementation.
