SUMODO

Urban planners can encourage active transport modes by designing new green areas, pedestrian and cycling infrastructure. Yet, reducing the surface once reserved for private vehicles requires careful consideration of transport preferences to secure citizen’s acceptance of change in their neighbourhood. The SUMODO project will provide a simulation platform with tools to explore aspects such as the frequency and transport mode preferences of citizens and how to compute the accessibility to services. Using SUMODO’s simulations, urban planners will be able to optimise physical (e.g. pedestrianisation) and policy based (e.g. slow zones) interventions to foster the deployment of 15-min cities with minimum economic and social cost.