All Transport

Recommendations for sustainable urban mobility management:

• Promote a balanced mix of transport modes for resilient transport systems that serve both residents and tourists. 

• Allocate budget and staff support to institutionalise the process of public consultation. 

• Adopt a supportive regulatory framework that allows co-ordination between local, regional, and national authorities, and private mobility service providers to implement SUMP measures.

• Clarify the relationship between SUMPs and other strategic land use and transport planning policies and processes.

Recommendations for mobility data management:

• Establish and maintain spatial databases independent of individual projects.

• Develop or secure adequate long-term spatial analysis capacity.

• Streamline data provision from national bodies.

• Establish data reporting requirements for transport service providers.

• Provide national-level guidance on household surveys.

• Standardise data collection and indicators at the national level. 

Recommendations to understand and monitor urban freight activity

• Cooperate with freight stakeholders to address data gathering challenges.

• Use surveys to collect freight data for indicators.

• Logistics is more than e-commerce. Urban logistics includes deliveries, distribution, returns, collections and servicing. A wide range of stakeholders with consumer and business demands are involved in the logistics ecosystem. Thinking about improving logistics started in e-commerce and now drives developments in the other segments.
• Shift to sustainable logistics. Logistics is unlikely the most beneficial use of real estate considering sparse urban space. But the absence of sustainably designed and operated urban logistics hubs could lead to more vehicles or more polluting vehicles in cities as no transshipment space is available.
• Strengthen understandings of logistics and hubs. Planning authorities should provide best-practice guidelines and frame policies for logistics and associated hubs without significantly increasing costs for operators and customers. The public sector should govern while the private sector should lead the construction, operation and management of logistics hubs.

• Élaborer des stratégies globales au service de la mobilité et des infrastructures de demain
• Accélérer la transition vers des flottes de véhicules propres
• Mettre en œuvre des politiques de report modal et de gestion de la demande là où elles sont le plus efficaces
• Au stade de l’évaluation, considérer les avantages additionnels qu’une politique peut apporter aux zones urbaines
• Réformer la fiscalité automobile de façon à capter les coûts externes des nouveaux parcs de véhicules

• Desarrollar estrategias globales para la movilidad y las infraestructuras futuras.
• Acelerar la transición a flotas de vehículos limpios.
• Aplicar políticas de cambio de modo de transporte y gestión de la demanda allí donde sean
  más eficaces.
• Considerar los beneficios adicionales para las zonas urbanas al evaluar las políticas.
• Reformar la fiscalidad de los vehículos para reflejar los costes externos de los nuevos parques
  automovilísticos.

• Develop comprehensive strategies for future mobility and infrastructure
• Accelerate the transition to clean vehicle fleets
• Implement mode shift and demand-management policies where they are most effective
• Consider the additional benefits for urban areas when evaluating policies
• Reform vehicle taxation to capture external costs of new vehicle fleets

• Regulate mobility operators and MaaS providers separately.
• Adopt an explicitly pro-competitive approach to MaaS in policy and legislation.
• Clearly establish the status of MaaS providers via a licensing scheme.
• Review conditions for mobility operator licences to ensure they do not include barriers to developing MaaS.
• Add mandatory minimum data-sharing requirements relating to informational and operational data to licences for mobility operators.
• Build mandatory consumer data portability, subject to user consent, into the conditions of all mobility operator and MaaS provider licences.
• Adopt competition safeguards as part of the MaaS provider licensing framework.
• Ensure public transport operators have the freedom to negotiate the terms of public transport ticket resale with MaaS providers who, in turn, should be free to determine the pricing of services to consumers.
• Apply OECD and EU best practice principles on regulatory policy and governance to inform approaches to regulating MaaS.
• Make data reporting requirements to public authorities specific and directly related to regulatory tasks.
• The Good Move policy package should remain the key vehicle for implementing sustainable urban mobility policies.

• Develop mobility observatories in cities.
• Collect traffic casualty data from hospitals, not only from police records.
• Adopt ambitious targets to reduce the number of casualties.
• Focus on protecting vulnerable road users.
• Use appropriate indicators to measure the safety of vulnerable road users in cities.
• Estimate daytime population to improve the comparability of traffic safety statistics.
• Prioritise research on urban road crashes.

• Invest in ways that support polycentric urban development where natural regional markets exist.
• Locate strategic functions of the city cluster in areas most accessible by all citizens.
• Adapt governance structures to clustered urban development.
• Address structural issues that lead to unnecessary urban spread.

• Consider integrating Shared Mobility services into the Greater Dublin Area transport system.
• Shared mobility services should be provided on a large-enough scale to reap full benefits.
• Use shared services as a feeder service for high-capacity public transport and the existing bus network.
• Use alternative fuels for shared mobility fleet to reduce emissions further.
• Target potential early adopters for Shared Mobility services in order to achieve scale of service.
• Set the regulatory framework for shared mobility services to generate maximum societal benefit.

• Public authorities must prepare for a much more networked and meshed world.
• Take into account changes in data science and technology when developing Mobility as a Service.
• Look beyond initial cryptocurrency applications of distributed ledger technologies.
• Governments should help deploy the building blocks that enable wider uptake of distributed ledgers.
• Apply blockchain technology now for slow and (relatively) small transport use cases; anticipate next generation distributed ledger technologies for “big and fast” applications to be deployed later.
• Governments should develop algorithmic code-based regulation to accompany the uptake of distributed ledger technologies.