Planning for People an overview of the SUMP concept...

Planning for People – an overview of

the SUMP concept and its benefits

Thessaloniki 10-11 September 2012 for EPTA

Presentation prepared by

Frank Wefering and Sebastian Bührmann (both Rupprecht Consult)

and Ivo Cré, Polis

Overview of SUMP Concept and its Benefits

Applying SUMP…

The difference is visible

Example Gent: 20 years ago and today - a

transformed city

End of the

80ies

Today


SUMP – a concept

promoted by the EU

Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans have

gained increased recognition and

importance at European level

• Action Plan on Urban Mobility

• European Council of Ministers

• 2011 Transport White Paper


The TWP envisages to…

• Establish procedures and financial support mechanisms at European level

for preparing Urban Mobility Audits, as well as Urban Mobility Plans, and set

up a European Urban Mobility Scoreboard based on common targets.

Examine the possibility of a mandatory approach for cities of a certain size,

according to national standards based on EU guidelines.

• Link regional development and cohesion funds to cities and regions that

have submitted a current, and independently validated Urban Mobility

Performance and Sustainability Audit certificate.

• Examine the possibility of a European support framework for a progressive

implementation of Urban Mobility Plans in European cities.

• Integrated urban mobility in a possible Smart Cities Innovation Partnership.

• Encourage large employers to develop Corporate/Mobility Management

Plans.


Characteristics of sustainable

urban mobility planning

• Active involvement of all stakeholders and the engagement of

citizens

• Commitment to sustainability, i.e. balancing social equity,

environmental quality and economic development

• Looking "beyond the borders"

– an integrated approach between policy sectors

– cooperation between authority levels

– coordination across neighbouring authorities

• Focus on achieving ambitious, measurable targets

• Targeting cost internalisation i.e. reviewing transport costs and

benefits for society

• Including all steps of the life cycle of policy making and

implementation



Traditional urban transport planning Sustainable urban mobility planning

Focus on traffic Focus on people

Key goal: traffic flow capacity and speed Key goal: accessibility and quality of life

Domain of transport engineers Interdisciplinary; integration of complementary sectors

Infrastructure is the key issue Infrastructure only one way to achieve wider goals

Investment-intensive planning Cost-efficient planning

Focus on large and costly projects Focus on efficient and gradual improvements

Project planning Strategic and goal-oriented planning

Mono-modal Multi- and intermodal

Transport projects without strategic assessment

Strategic assessment of options considering set goals

Meeting transport demand Transport demand management

Non-transparent decision-making Transparent decision-making that includes the public


The SUMP planning cycle

• A full SUMP cycle includes four main phases:

I: Preparing well for the planning process

II: Rational and transparent goal setting

III: Elaborating the plan

IV: Implementing the plan

• SUMP Guidelines developed in ELTISplus:

11 Elements (= main steps) and 32 Activities (= detailing

specific tasks)

• SUMP elements and activities provide a logical rather than a

sequential structure – obvious timing requirements, but process

resembles cycle of activities, partially running in parallel

• Graphical overview simplified for communication purposes


Phase I: Preparing well

1. Determine your potential for a successful SUMP be

ambitious, but also realistic about what is possible and

who will become involved

SUMP

Skills

Timeframe

!



2. Define development process and scope of plan

Geographical

scope

Leading

partner

Plan

stakeholder

and citizen

involvement

Policy

coordination

& actor

cooperation

Management

arrangements

OUR SUMP WORKPLAN



3. Analyse the mobility situation and develop options

Milestone: Analysis of problems and opportunities

concluded


Phase II: Rational and

transparent goal setting

4. Develop a common vision of mobility and beyond (your city in

20 years?)




5. Set priorities and

measurable targets




6. Develop effective packages of measures that respond to

objectives

Milestone: Measures identified


Phase III:

Elaborating the plan

7. Agree clear responsibilities and allocate funding: the EPTA

topic!

€


Phase III:


8. Build monitoring and evaluation into the plan


Phase III:


9. Adopt the plan and communicate results

Milestone: SUMP adopted

SUMP

Planning for

People


Phase IV:

Implementing the plan

10. Ensure proper management & communication

(when implementing the plan)

Detail measure

implementation

Cooperate with

stakeholders

Deliver goals

effectively

Check progress

Inform citizens

Ensure sound

coordination

Access

restriction

measure


Phase IV:

Implementing the plan

11. Learn the lesson

Milestone: Final impact assessment concluded

To-do list

Coope-

ration

Next

SUMP

Citizen

involvement Parking

situation

Evolution of sustainable

urban mobility planning with

each new planning cycle

Unlocking the potential

of your city more and

more!


• It makes the plan more efficient and effective, by making

use of synergetic effects (e.g. measures that impact on

several policy objectives).

• It improves the acceptability of the plan by involving and

answering to the needs of different societal sectors.

• It can facilitate to attract external funding by aligning to

the objectives of funding bodies (e.g. national funding

linked to specific objectives).

• It can improve the benefits of cooperation with (private)

operators and service providers that can be seen as

“integrators”

Policy integration…


Integration has many faces

Horizontal integration

Vertical integration

Territorial integration

Intermodal integration

Integration at measures level


Horizontal integration

• An urban transport plan will be sustainable if it

covers certain local economic, social and

environmental policy criteria.

• This requires knowledge about related policy

fields at the local level and access to the

relevant decision makers and experts.

• Output: Vision, policy summaries, stakeholder

map

• Activity 1.1, 2.2

Environment Social policies Land use Transport Etc.


Horizontal integration:

Example

Kouvola

• Inter-sectoral working group

• Regional council, Finnish Road Administration, Finnish

Rail Administration, state office, 7 municipalities + health

service and environment centre = citizens

• Letter of Intent

Bristol

• 4 councils with different political majorities

• Officer Groups and involvment of Local Strategic

Partnerships


Vertical integration

• urban transport planning

processes are embedded in

a wider regional and

national (and sometimes

international) framework

• This includes top-down as

well as bottom-up

processes

• Output: a synopsis of

relevant frameworks!


International

European

National

Regional

Metropolitan

Districts or boroughs


Territorial integration

• A plan must relate to a specific territory for which

it is performed.

• Ideally this coincides with functional spatial

interdependencies and traffic flows, including

higher level networks.

• This might require an inter-institutional dialogue.

• Output: Definition of the planning perimeter and

communication/decision making structure

• Activity 2.1

• Activity

Entity A

Entity B

Entity D

Entity C

Entity E



Intermodal integration

• The SUMP process should ensure linkages

between different transport modes and develop

a common view on hierarchy and interaction

between different transport networks

• Specific planning methodology

– Proposed network hierarchy per mode

– Gap analysis per network

– Combined network layers to define interaction and

nodal development



Integration at measures

level: defining packages

• Packages of measures can make use of synergies and reinforce

each other

• Important advantage: one political decision covers several actions

• Different taxonomies: CIVITAS 8 categories

• Integrational effects:

– Increased effects on the achievement of traffic related objectives

– Compensate ‘losers’ (fairness, limit ‘welfare loss’), thus add to public

acceptability

– Financial interdependence

– Practical and technical synergies

– Dependent on ‘negotiability’ (e.g. Short term, visible implementation)

• Activity 6.4


Conclusions

• SUMPS can help to meet legal requirements, e.g. EU Air

Quality Directive

• Netherlands, France, England – SUMP key to getting

transport funding from central government, EC investigating

conditionality

• Work with different fields, e.g. health, get access new budget

lines to meet transport policy goals

• Links with Spatial Planning - helps to plan transport

systematically to allow development of land


Thank you for your attention!

Ivo Cré, [email protected]

www.mobilityplans.eu

mailto:[email protected]

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