Sustainable Mobility
Actually, the cost of running public transport is understood as deficit while the cost of building and maintaining a highway is considered an investment.
Public transport has an enormous impact on development and should be considered as important as physical infrastructures such as highways. It is an essential service and must be considered as such, both in urban and rural areas. Transport systems are often a mix of different modes; successful solutions are based on the assumption that public transport can be seen as complementary to individual car use and not as an opposition.
Transport is a question of comfort.
In order for public authorities to convince people to switch from cars to public transport, comfort is a major component. Many elements can be considered in the analysis of comfort, such as:
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Time management (the amount of time you lose of save according to transport mode; the possibility to read or sleep while travelling)
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Personal Space (the will to travel alone or with other people, known or not)
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Ownership (the importance of having the control or delegating it)
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Noise (the possibility of a noiseless transport mode to enjoy silence or music)
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Attractiveness (cleanliness – including odours -, status – both political or economic)
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Empowerment (the possibility to act on his/her environment)
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Accessibility (the access – both spatial and temporal - to transport mode or parking)
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Short-term costs (transport fees, price of petrol)
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Long-term costs (price of vehicle, yearly train passes)
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Weather hazards (the stress and risks personally taken or transferred to others in bad weather times)
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Road Quality (the stress related to bad road quality)
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Working on one or many of these issues can have an impact on travellers’ habits, whether positive or negative. Sustainable mobility is not about getting rid of cars and trucks, but more in offering a transportation system with choices that can lower the negative impacts of travels of people and goods on the environment and the communities.
Bebop et Cie is presently working on a model for sustainable mobility that will show how working on comfort issues can have a positive impact on changing users transportation’s habits.
Services available:
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Coordination of sustainable or/and public transport committees
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Analysis of social aspects of transport planning
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Conferences and workshops on
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sustainable mobility
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environmental transport
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social issues in transport
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gender equality and transport
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Reports and project building and management on sustainable mobility issues |
Interesting example in sustainable mobility:
Website:
www.gronabilister.se/public/dokument.php?art=272 (in Sweden)
Publications : click here
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