Bicycle counter reading in Gent© Rupprecht Consult, Susanne Böhler-Baedeker
Kick-off meeting in Cologne 2013© Rupprecht Consult, Gabi Wegeler
Addressing key challenges of sustainable urban mobility planning
Duration 03/2013 - 03/2016
Website http://www.sump-challenges.eu
Coordinator Rupprecht Consult GmbH
CH4LLENGE’s objectives were to
CH4LLENGE partner cities carried out twelve pilot projects in order to test promising SUMP process innovations in their environment. Activities ranged from implementing participation strategies to establishing institutional partnerships and setting up monitoring and evaluation schemes. Pilots consisted of 51 local SUMP activities, involved more than 175 institutional actors and established active dialogues with more than 15.400 citizens and 290 local and regional stakeholders.
CH4LLENGE carried out substantial groundwork in examining the state-of-the-art of sustainable urban mobility planning, i.e. the four challenges and local planning practices. The project captured its findings in various new SUMP resources. This includes, for example: four CH4LLENGE Kits, each consisting of a comprehensive manual, a quick-facts brochure and an e-learning course; and a SUMP Glossary providing explanation of more than 120 SUMP specialist terms.
New tools were developed in CH4LLENGE assisting planning authorities in SUMP development: a SUMP Self-Assessment Tool to compare planning practices with European SUMP requirements; an integrated learning environment with five SUMP e-courses, the online version of the SUMP Guidelines, the Self-Assessment and Glossary; the enhanced KonSULT Policy Guidebook and Measure Option Generator as a tool for measure selection; and a template for creating Monitoring and Evaluation Plans.
A total of 26 Follower Cities committed to improving sustainable urban mobility planning took part in CH4LLENGE’s learning and experience exchange activities. CH4LLENGE SUMP experts provided support to Follower Cities to enable them to work towards their own SUMPs. SUMP roadmaps were developed for each city in order to kick off SUMP development or progress in existing SUMP activities.
In order to strengthen SUMP capacities in planning authorities, four in-depth workshops were held for more than 170 transport planners from Partner and Follower Cities; about 250 transport professionals were trained in five SUMP National Seminars; more than 200 young professionals were trained in five CH4LLENGE Universities; about 150 participants took part in CH4LLENGE’s online learning; finally, European dialogue on SUMP was established in cooperation with the SUMP Co-ordinating Group.
Rupprecht Consult was the coordinator of CH4LLENGE and responsible for the consortium management, administrative and financial management, project communication and process evaluation as well as quality control of the project’s deliverables, outputs and all products thatwere produced. Besides project management, Rupprecht Consult wasalso a SUMP knowledge expert in the project and supported the partner cities in analysing their urban mobility and transport planning situation in the context of the four challenges of SUMP. The company also assists the cities in developing their SUMP challenge strategies and had an advisory role in the CH4LLENGE pilot schemes. In addition, Rupprecht Consult was the main knowledge partner and authored the SUMP Manual "Participation - Actively involving citizens and stakeholders in SUMP development".
Susanne Böhler-Baedeker
+49 221 6060 55 14
s.boehler@rupprecht-consult.eu