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Sustainable Urban Transport Planning
General Presentation
What is Sustainable Urban
Transport Planning
Kicking off the process…
To get things moving in the right
direction ...
...synchronized action is
needed.
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
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.
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;
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
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
5 tasks to run the SUTP
process
Status analysis & scenario development
Task 2
Priorities
& choices
Vision, objectives & targets
Strategies
& measures
Task 3
Requirements
& conditions
Action& budget plan
Task 4
Assigning responsibilities & resources
(for implementation)
Plan adoption & approval
Problems
& policy options
Data needs
Monitoring and evaluation
Task 1
Data availability
& measurement
Task 5
Running the SUTP process
Detailed interaction of tasks
Running the SUTP process
Task 1
Task 1.1
Inventarisation of plans & policies
Task 1.2
Task 5
Monitoring and evaluation
Data needs
Status analysis
Data availability
& measurement
Task 1.3
Scenario development
Priorities
& choices
Task 2
Alternative
scenarios
Selected scenario
(refined)
Priorities
& choices
Task 2.1
Task 2.2
Task 2.3
Common vision of stakeholders
Definition of objectives
Targets for outcome indicators
Strategies
& measures
Task 3
Action& budget plan
Task 4
Assigning responsibilities & resources
Requirements
& conditions
(for implementation)
Plan adoption & approval
Do-nothing /
Business-as-usual
scenario
SUTP strategic and operative
framework
10 “Missions”
1.
Timing of the planning process
2.
Strategic coordination and actor relations
3.
Responsibility and geographical coverage
4.
Citizen participation
5.
Stakeholder involvement
6.
Integration of policies for SUTP
7.
Social inclusion and gender equity
8.
Skill management
9.
Information and public relations
10.
Management and organisation
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
…that’s 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
Setting the context:
5 Steps from the EU to the EU citizen
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
Experiences from the PILOT
demonstrator cities
PILOT demonstrator cities
Braila (Romania)
Evora (Portugal)
Lancaster (UK)
Tallinn (Estonia)
Diversity in land use planning
in Tallinn
Tallinn contrasts