PILOT Manual for Sustainable Urban Transport Planning

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PILOT Manual for Sustainable Urban Transport
Planning

• Regional Meeting on Sustainable Transport
  Policies in South Eastern Europe - 21/22 June
  Budapest Hungary
• Ivo Cré, Polis Project Manager

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Setting the context 5 Steps from the EU to the
EU citizen
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5 Steps between the EU and the EU citizen

• Step 1 6th Environment Action Programme
• Step 2 The Thematic Strategy on the Urban
  Environment
• Step 3 The Pilot Project
• Step 4 Your city uses Pilot results
• Step 5 Citizens and the SUTP

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STEP1. EU context

• 6th Environment Action Programme
• The EU committed itself to publish a Thematic
  strategy on the urban environment addressing an
  integrated approach to environmental problems in
  a urban areas.

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STEP2. EU context

• The Thematic Strategy for the Urban Environment
• Initial vision obligation for 100.000 local
  authorities to prepare a Urban Environmental
  Management Plan and a Sustainable Urban Transport
  Plan
• Final version EU to provide local authorities
  with guidance on these topics

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STEP3. Pilot Project

• EU launches 2 projects to investigate UMP and
  SUTP
• Liveable Cities Urban Management Plans
• Pilot
• Main strategic objective
• Promoting sustainable urban transport planning

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STEP3. Pilot Project (CTD)

• Main objectives
• Identify strengths and weaknesses regarding the
  transferability of methods and tools for SUTP
  preparation
• Provide guidance and recommendations for the
  European Commission and the Member States
• address the specific requirements of the EU
  Accession countries and new member states
• Establish a durable platform for the exchange of
  experiences and good practice between
  stakeholders from across Europe.

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STEP4 Your city uses Pilot results

• SUTP Tools available
• Pilot Manual (guidance for stakeholders)
• Pilot Manual (full version)
• Support material per Task
• Support material per Mission
• Background document on integration of Transport
  and Land Use Planning
• Background document on Public Involvement
• Self-assessment questionnaire tools

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STEP5 Citizens and the SUTP

• The citizens involvement is fourfold
• A creative public involvement programme brings
  citizens closer to the planning process.
• A communication plan informs citizens about the
  progress in the planning process and the
  implementation of the SUTP.
• Citizens see the result of implemented measures
  originating from the SUTP.
• Citizens adopt their mobility behaviour.

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What is Sustainable Urban Transport Planning
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Kicking off the process
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The need for SUTP

• Urban transport policy and mobility planning
  imply choices that strongly affect society as a
  whole ? shaping environment, social and cultural
  future of our cities
• Integrated planning processes still hampered by
  organisational division between transport modes,
  government agencies and services
• Transport planning tends to be seen as technical
  task, lacking stakeholder participation and
  delivering only piecemeal measures.
• Need for
• Multifaceted policy response, based on long term
  strategy
• Consultation with other authorities and civil
  society
• Concrete and achievable targets

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What is SUTP ?

• Defining Sustainable Urban Transport Planning A
  new approach to transport planning with
  distinctive aim, subject and qualities
• The aim of SUTP achieving sustainable urban
  transport system by considering a serie of
  objectives
• Adress movement of goods and persons
  comprehensively
• ? A new planning approach that needs to grow from
  and within local authorities and existing
  practices.

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A new planning approach

• SUTP
• Is not an additional layer (danger of
  misconception)
• Builds on existing practices and regulatory
  frameworks in the Member States. Aims to combine
  and complete these, applying a number of commonly
  agreed principles
• Represents the direction into which current
  planning practices should be moving continuously
  in order to enhance sustainable urban transport
  development

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An innovative process for transport planning

• A participatory approach
• A pledge for sustainability
• An integrated approach
• A focus on the achievement of measurable
  targets
• A move towards costs internalisation
• A cycle of policy-making and implementation

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Running the SUTP process

• 5 key Tasks well-structured strategic planning
  process
• 1 Status analysis and scenario development
• 1.1 Inventarisation of existing plans and
  policies
• 1.2 Status analysis
• 1.3 Scenario development
• 2 Vision, objectives and targets
• 2.1 Common vision of stakeholders
• 2.2 Definition of objectives
• 2.3 Targets for outcome indicators
• 3 Action and budget plan
• 4 Assigning responsibilities and resources
• 5 Monitoring and evaluation

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5 tasks to run the SUTP process
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Detailed interaction of tasks
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SUTP strategic and operative framework

• 10 Missions
• Timing of the planning process
• Strategic coordination and actor relations
• Responsibility and geographical coverage
• Citizen participation
• Stakeholder involvement
• Integration of policies for SUTP
• Social inclusion and gender equity
• Skill management
• Information and public relations
• Management and organisation

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A complex task

• Sustainable Urban Transport Planning promotes
  strategic thinking and encourages integration.
  Partners across a range of sectors sign up to the
  understanding that in order to progress, a
  holistic approach is required.
• Helen Holland, Bristol County Council

• Sustainable Urban Transport Plans should be
  innovative but not utopian. The challenge is of
  course to implement them
• Rudolf Schicker Councillor for Urban
  Development, Traffic and Transport of Vienna

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thats worth the effort
Although the efforts for SUTP are considerable,
the benefit of widespread acceptance and the many
positive effects of an integrated policy exceed
the costs by far. Ingeborg Junge-Reyer, Senator
for Urban Development Berlin
Our concern for the long-term benefits for
health, the environment and the lives of people
in our city offers us no alternative to a
comprehensive approach addressing the issue of
mobility. Danica Simsic, Mayor of Ljubljana
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Experiences from the PILOT demonstrator and
expert cities
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PILOT demonstrator cities
Braila (Romania)
Evora (Portugal)
Lancaster (UK)
Tallinn (Estonia)
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Diversity in land use planning in Tallinn
Tallinn contrasts
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Land use development opportunity zones in
relation to the transport infrastructure network
(The Hague, NL)
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Land use development with transport impacts (The
Hague, NL)
Add quality to water and landscape
New light-rail Randstadrail
30.000 new houses
Finish the ringroad
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Regional cooperation
Joint Local Transport Plan for Bath and North
East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset and
South Gloucestershire Councils.
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SUTP relates to PT regulatory framework

• SUTP provides framework for service contracts and
  subsidies.
• SUTP sets targets for specific target groups and
  justifies fare policy and discounts.
• SUTP maps hierarchy of PT lines and sets the
  framework for rolling stock investments.
• e.g. Flanders Region

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• Thank you!Ivo Créicre_at_polis-online.org
  www.pilot-transport.org