ICONIC

The ICONIC project aims to improve sustainable mobility plans (incl. SUMPs) and their implementation by anchoring the concept of intermodality, giving special attention to the aspect of accesibility. For intermodal options to be truly sustainable, seamless mobility must be guaranteed for all. To achieve this, ICONIC aims at bringing digital innovations into transport planning that help to increase the connectivity of intermodal services, their efficiency and usability.
Demographic change, rural deprivation, the digital divide and the challenge of climate change and achieving the EU's climate targets pose particular challenges for mobility planning in European regions: Mobility concepts beyond the use of private cars must be developed to ensure that regions remain connected and that all people can participate in social, cultural and economic life. Current approaches to intermodality tend to exclude people with physical & cognitive restrictions, elderly or digitally less-savvy people due to increasing complexity. Sustainable mobility planning must take the needs of all users into account. ICONIC aims to achieve this by verifying mobility planning and concepts through operationalisation, thereby establishing standards and criteria for an intermodal mobility that is inclusive and thus really sustainable.
In a process of mutual learning, the ICONIC partners, under the leadership of the Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Mobility, Agriculture and Consumer Protection Saarland (Germany), will further develop and evaluate their planning programmes for sustainable mobility in accordance with the joint requirements. Further project partners involved in this process are: Podkarpackie region (Poland); Sinergija, Regional Development Agency, Pomurje (Slovenia) ; SERDA, Agency from the canton of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina); Development Agency of the Municipalities of Sakana (Spain); Municipality of Castelo Branco (Portugal); North-East RDA (Romania).