Smart Urban mobility plan is part of Smart City Dubai. While in Dubai’s skies will be taken over from drones for passenger & police fleets, Mercedes-Benz and Iveco are preparing themselves for autonomous trucks. While mobility is making our lives better, without a proper planning, it can be a huge headache for cities.
Europe has understood this problem first and introduced a new initiative named SUMP (Smart Urban Mobility Plan), calling cities to implement it.
The objective of a SUMP is to improve accessibility of urban areas and providing high-quality and sustainable mobility and transport to, through and within the urban area. SUMP can be defined as a long-term strategy for the future development of an urban area based on mobility and multimodal transportation for a better quality of life.
Planning has become an increasingly complex task, and planners (as well as policy makers) are faced with many challenges as for example how to maintain a high quality of life while you want your businesses to thrive.
With SUMPs we foster the balanced development of all relevant transport modes while encouraging a shift toward more sustainable modes like e-mobility and carbon free solutions.
SUMPs foresee to:
– Improve safety & security.
– Reduce air & noise
– Reduce energy consumption.
– Improve the efficiency & cost effectiveness of the transportation of persons & goods.
– Improve the quality of life of an urban environment for the benefit of citizens & the economy.
– Regularly monitor, review & report on all mobility issues in order to provide suggestions for improvement at all levels.
Public transport, non-motorized transport (walking & cycling), intermodality and door-to-door mobility, urban road safety, flowing and stationary road transport, urban logistics, mobility management, and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) can all be part of a strategic planning for the sustainable cities of tomorrow
If you were a decision maker for the future of a city how would you feel if the fast adoption of new technology of today lead to a lower quality for your citizens? Would you risk their lives or decrease the competitiveness of your companies due to an inefficient planning?
DVK Consultants can empower your decisions with supreme consultation among different departments at local level to ensure efficiency of your policies and envision with you a sustainable & secure future for your city.
Smart City is a city where a citizen can use the municipal car-pooling service to travel from the sub-urban are to city’s center, take the e-bus to go to your job. In the afternoon use the public pedelecs for a ride in the park, where you can eat a pizza coming with an e-scouter delivery. Over there you may see an e-Cargo mini car to take care the grass and the police quadcopter to silently check the area. Suddenly you have a notification in your mobile; your new furniture arrived to city port via an autonomous e-boat and is ready to be delivered via the autonomous e-Truck.
In order to make the dream a reality DVK Consultants can in collaboration with local stakeholders prepare a multilevel study report. The steps are the following:
- An exhausting assessment of the existing situation regarding mobility planning context and practices will be conducted.
- Based on that, a tailor-made profile analysis will be followed based on mobility patterns and multi-criteria indicators.
- Next, a series of interviews will take place among different stakeholders for
PPPP (Public Private People Partnership) and key findings will be used as the intermediate step. - Afterwards, the current legal framework (local regulations, plans & strategies influencing, formal & informal regional responsibilities), the barriers and the policy content will be assessed and key recommendations will be suggested for better policies and structural reforms.
- The next step will be a pre-final report of suggested actions & SUMP-Planning. A workshop will be organized for discussing propositions and critical feedback will be collected.
- Based on that, a final revision of the planning will derive providing prioritized next steps that should be followed and measurable targets.
DVK Consultants can also handle the project management & the communication of the SUMP adoption process according to international standards and best practices.
The future of your city is carbon-free and SUMPs will help you to achieve it.
