MBD15
Mobility Benefit Districts: Travel and Liveability Impacts, Acceptability, and Governance of New Tools for Accelerating Transitions in the 15-minute City
- Category
- Project
- Call
- DUT Call 2022
- Duration
- –
- Project coordinator
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Car use and ownership are major sources of greenhouse gas emissions and occupy plenty of space. However, reducing the space for car parking may be difficult to implement and unpopular. We investigate whether Mobility Benefit Districts (MBD), a concept where revenues from car parking charges are use to finance mobility service locally and where residents are involved in the decision making, can contribute to a transition towards sustainable mobility and liveable cities.
The project investigates how MBD
(i) contribute to reduced car ownership and car use as well as to improved liveability in urban areas,
(ii) increase acceptability for (on-street) parking charges,
and (iii) if there are any governance challenges and how they can be solved.
The project generates insights into the acceptability of MBD among different resident groups and what increases acceptability with an experimental living lab design in different spatial and governance contexts.
The research is taking place in Damstadt (Germany), Vienna (Austria) and Sundbyberg, Stockholm and Gävle (Sweden). We have documented already existing elements of MBD in the participating cities (through learning cases) and through a structured literature review. We also investigate the if MBD can contribute to
- reduced car traffic and use as well as increased liveability
- increased acceptance for parking charges and redesign of parking spaces to other uses
- if there are any governance challenges to implement MBD and how they can be solved. These issues are adressed in living and transfer labs through interviews, focus groups and surveys.
The project is expected to deliver knowledge on whether the MBD 15 concept can increase acceptance for parking charges and for redesign of parking space into other use. We also expect the project to provide insight on how MBD affect liveability and car use. Finally, we expect the project to identify implementation challenges and to provide insight on how a MBD can be implemented. The project is carried out in close collaboration with the participating cities, and we hope the project will provide concrete knowlede on how to work towards a socio-ecological transformation of cities and facilitate for cities to carry out such transformations.
Austria
Germany
Sweden
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt Am Main, PlanSinn – Buro für Planung und Kommunikation GmbH, Technische Universität Wien, TUB Trafikutredningsbyrån AB, UIV Urban Innovation Vienna GmbH
Bezirksvorstehung, Gavle Kommun, Stockholms Stad, Sundbybergs Kommun Sundbybergs Stadsundby, Wissenschaftsstadt Darmstadt
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Fredrik Johansson
frjo6@kth.se