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Planning is an extremely complex process that harmonizes conflicting requirements:
- When pursuing an overall design that will affect an entire city, the process is extremely complex because you have to achieve a functional combination of different needs and requirements that sometimes conflict with each other.
- It aims and succeeds - as experience has already shown - in maintaining and upgrading the high standard of quality of life, while creating an attractive business environment.
- At the same time, it reduces traffic congestion in sensitive areas, but does not create obstacles to the movement of goods and people.
In short, it puts urban everyday life in order for the benefit of all.
Planning priorities are the protection of public health, the reduction of the effects of climate change, of noise and air pollution.
All of the above are now widely accepted as critical requirements in order for our cities to become fully sustainable and humane.
The SUMP has exactly this mission:
The integrated approach towards a balanced development of all transport means with the simultaneous development of alternative modes of transport.
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What are the benefits of Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning?
Why is Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning not just useful but necessary for a city?
What success stories have emerged from cities that have turned their Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans into real and applied policies?
Nothing can speak better than a real life example:
Madrid, the capital of Spain, achieved a reduction of nitrogen dioxide pollution by 15% in just three months after the introduction of low emission zones proposed by its SUMP, in November 2018
Public health and road safety also benefit from encouraging the use of active modes of transport.
Sustainable mobility measures can contribute in tackling a city's road safety problems and achieving the EU target of 50% fewer deaths and serious injuries from road accidents by 2030
Warsaw is an excellent example:
Since Warsaw began deploying the SUMP in the mid-2000s, road accidents have fallen by 21% and road deaths by 60%
The harmonious complement of the different movement needs that people have is one of the most basic goals of SUMPs. The Milan SUMP in Italy, for example, has already contributed to a 50% reduction in car users since 2016. Compared to the average in the rest of the country, the average number of car users in Milan is significantly lower.
The results already achieved became possible only with the active participation of the residents of the area, as their consent is a critical necessity for Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning.
Through the SUMP - which took into account data from 755 citizens - Milan introduced a low emission zone limiting car use to around 70% of the city.
Intensive public dialogue with stakeholders and citizens helped to minimize reactions.
Another example is Stockholm. By consulting and cooperating with citizens on sustainable urban mobility measures, the Swedish capital has increased public support for congestion charges from 33% to 67% over five years.
The coexistence and complementarity of many different means of transportation, offers the city a special character. It upgrades aesthetically and strengthens the urban identity of each city. Thus, the overall improvement of the image of the area, helps the local shops and encourages tourism, local regeneration and international investments.
In Copenhagen, pedestrianization of a street led to a 30% increase in sales in a single year.
When employees have more mobility opportunities, companies also benefit from an increase in the number of job applicants and less wasted time on the move.
One the one hand, high-skilled people seek jobs in attractive cities and, on the other hand, vulnerable groups have increased chances to find employement when the obstacles regarding their mobility are removed.
So:Improved mobility reduces social inequalities as it promotes alternative mild means of transportation for all, rather than one group to the detriment of another.
The cost-benefit analysis carried out by Arad in Romania, while deciding on its SUMP measures, showed that there would be a benefit of € 2.2 million Euros for every 1 million Euro invested.
Stockholm estimated the annual socio-economic surplus from the mobility measures at 60 million Euros.
The more diverse and comprehensive the options for sustainable mobility, the greater the efficiency and resilience of the transport system as a whole.
Since the launch of the most recent Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan in 2017, the city of Ghent in Belgium, has seen an increase of 25% in bicycle use in the city center and 35% outside the city center.
Since the implementation of the SUMP, which was updated in 2015, Antwerp has reduced car traffic that enters the city on a typical working day of the week by 25% (approximately 14,000 less).
Madrid, the capital of Spain, achieved a reduction of nitrogen dioxide pollution by 15% in just three months after the introduction of low emission zones proposed by its SUMP, in November 2018
