Application of a Voluntary Mobility Audit Scheme in Judenburg
Published on 17 May 2018
Austria
Steiermark
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About this good practice
Judenburg is part of the Covenant of Mayors and the Austrian e5 programme (i.e. Austrian version of the European Energy Award). As part of its commitment towards sustainability, the city started to intensify investments in sustainable urban transport, as traffic-related emissions and the number of trips by car were rising.
The ADVANCE Audit Scheme helps cities and municipalities to assess the quality of their urban mobility planning and it is a practical tool providing a systematic evaluation method and guidance for a successful SUMP. The idea behind ADVANCE is that it compares the cities’ mobility planning to an ideal sustainable urban mobility planning process. The ADVANCE Audit is an IEE-funded project which ran from 2011 to 2014.
Judenburg objectives were to:
• Obtain a list of measures and priorities to enhance the mobility and facilitate its planning;
• Improve the cooperation among bodies involved in traffic problems and environment protection;
• Identify measures to improve SUMP;
• Satisfy the mobility needs of people and business.
ADVANCE defines five Mission Fields as the main elements of a SUMP. The audit consists of a self-assessment questionnaire regarding these fields to be filled out by the ADVANCE working group, which are cities’ representatives and internal stakeholders. Moreover, there is an Auditor to facilitate and moderate the process; in the case of Judenburg two external Auditors were present.
The ADVANCE Audit Scheme helps cities and municipalities to assess the quality of their urban mobility planning and it is a practical tool providing a systematic evaluation method and guidance for a successful SUMP. The idea behind ADVANCE is that it compares the cities’ mobility planning to an ideal sustainable urban mobility planning process. The ADVANCE Audit is an IEE-funded project which ran from 2011 to 2014.
Judenburg objectives were to:
• Obtain a list of measures and priorities to enhance the mobility and facilitate its planning;
• Improve the cooperation among bodies involved in traffic problems and environment protection;
• Identify measures to improve SUMP;
• Satisfy the mobility needs of people and business.
ADVANCE defines five Mission Fields as the main elements of a SUMP. The audit consists of a self-assessment questionnaire regarding these fields to be filled out by the ADVANCE working group, which are cities’ representatives and internal stakeholders. Moreover, there is an Auditor to facilitate and moderate the process; in the case of Judenburg two external Auditors were present.
Resources needed
Humar resources, funding came from EU
Evidence of success
The objectives were achieved through the submission of an Audit, which led to a successful list of measures adopted and developed to improve the mobility in the city. Moreover, from the prioritisation process, some recommendations emerged for the city. Even if there are no specific indicators to evaluate the results achieved, the output of the Audit provided much information about traffic in the city, which was used to improve environment protection and to enhance the mobility planning
Potential for learning or transfer
No specific prerequisite is requested to participate to the Audit. Therefore, this GP can be considered fully portable and transferrable to other contexts. As a proof, the ADVANCE Audit was successfully implemented in many European cities, for example: Maribor (Slovenia), City of Agioi Anargyroi & Kamatero (Greece), Pruszcz Gdański (Poland), Malmo (Sweden) Ploiesti (Romania), Schaerbeek (Belgium), Szczecin (Poland), Terrassa (Spain), Žilina (Slovakia). Many of these cities used ADVANCE to develop their own SUMP.
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Organisation
FGM-AMOR, Gemeinnützige GmbH
Austria
Steiermark
Contact
Junior Project Manager