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Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - SUMPs-Up (European Programme for Accelerating the Take up of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans)

Teaser

Summary

As a response to the MG-5.4 call, the European Programme for Accelerating the Take-Up of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans project (SUMPs-Up) has been working to advance the take-up of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs), particularly in countries where the take-up is still low and the negative effects of transport are severe. The leading objective for SUMPs-Up is to enable mobility planning authorities across Europe to embrace SUMP as the European-wide strategic planning approach, especially in countries where the take-up is low and the negative effects of transport are severe.
To achieve this end, the project embraces a four-step process that validates, systemises, accelerates and secures SUMP development. A solid evidence base concerning the barriers to SUMP preparation and implementation will be created through applied, transdisciplinary research at the early stages of the project and updated accordingly throughout. Complementing these findings, the project compiles the most effective planning tools and methods and provides guidance on various mobility policy areas in an effort to foster the development of high-quality SUMPs. The Consortiumâ€™s seven City Partners and eight technical expert organisations, including Europeâ€™s four major city networks, reach out to the mobility planning authorities in Europe with the aim of significantly increasing the number of cities actively using and embedding SUMPs into their daily routines through a variety of means, including the provision of comprehensive SUMP research information, capacity-building activities, trainings and expert advice. Lastly, SUMPs-Up creates innovative new products and insightful, exhaustive reports based on research and the experiences gathered throughout the project and makes these widely available, thereby ensuring the longevity of project impacts on increased SUMP development.

Work performed

Since the first periodic reporting period, the CIVITAS SUMPs-Up has continued to make significant headway towards realizing the objective it has set out to achieve. Among the main works performed include the elaboration of Deliverable 7.1, â€œSUMP Status reportâ€. A short, printable, and graphic version of the report was developed, which has since then been used at various events.
The CIVITAS Tool Inventory has continually been updated, in cooperation with CIVITAS SATELLITE, with new tools. From around 100 tools at the time of its launch, the number of tools contained within the Tool Inventory has grown to over 200 by the present time. The new tools include all major SUMPs-Up guides that have been released in the meantime, such as the three manuals on SUMP measure selection, Standards for Developing a SUMP Action Plan, and the Status of SUMPs in EU Member States.

The update and enhancement of the SUMP Self-Assessment Scheme was also initiated. The new tool,will allow cities to evaluate their planning activities and places a stronger emphasis on providing recommendations on how to improve these activities.

3 SUMP Guides were developed, as part of the SUMP 2.0 process. The topics of the guides were selected in a coordinated process that aimed to avoid overlaps with the guides that were developed by sister projects, CIVITAS Prosperity and CIVITAS SUITS, and those of other SUMP projects. The 3 topics chosen for the SUMP Topic Guides to address are SUMP in metropolitan regions, electrification planning for electric road transport in the SUMP context, and SUMP for smaller cities. SUMPs-Up additionally co-authored two other Topic Guides, on funding and finance of SUMP measures and one on public procurement for SUMP measures.
Leading to a particularly high workload during the second reporting period was the intense process that was linked to the updating of the SUMP Guidelines. To guide the comprehensive revision of the Guidelines, an extensive consultation process with Europe\'s SUMP stakeholders was conducted. For example, interactive workshops were organized, conference survey conducted, focus group discussions facilitated, and a half-day Breakfast at Sustainabilityâ€™s event organized for this purpose. Furthermore, in parallel to the stakeholder events, a close collaboration among the main authors was ensured. The SUMP Guidelines document, which was updated in a way so as to improve its usability and to reflect recent mobility trends and new planning experiences, was launched at the CIVITAS Forum in October 2019.
The second and third calls for applications for cities and regions to join SLP3,4 and 5 were launched in March 2018, respectively November 2018. Overall, the SLPs have been successfully implemented, based on the good feedback that was received from cities.
To enable a wider group of mobility experts and practitioners to benefit from the results and knowledge of the project, a variety of learning opportunities have been offered throughout the project: face-to-face workshops organised in different countries, webinars for mobility practitioners and the first package of e-learning courses for mobility practitioners.
SUMPs-Up also works with four countries in which a need for national support has been identified: Bulgaria, Italy, Romania and Greece.
A series of video interviews, forming part of a series called SUMP Stories, were filmed with each of the 7 SUMPs-Up city partners. The most recent of these is an in-depth video that was also filmed in Turin and which tells the story of the transformative impact that the Italian cityâ€™s SUMP has had.
While the elements discussed above comprise the key works and results achieved by SUMPs-Up during the second half of the projectâ€™s lifetime, the list is far larger than the space allocated allows for. In addition to the direct contact that has been made to the cities comprising SLP 1 to 5, the Leadership Group, and those participating in the mobility practitionersâ€™ worksh

Final results

While the list of achievements above is already quite significant, much else will also be carried out in the last 6 months of the projectâ€™s lifetime. For instance, SLP5 is scheduled to conclude in November 2019. In addition to the remaining learning activities that will be carried out as part of SLP5, CIVITAS SUMPs-Up will continue to organise national events in selected countries in which the need for support has been identified, develop glossy brochures on five case studies of SUMP development and impacts, finalise the programming of the SUMP Self-Assessment tool, and create an exploitation strategy designed to secure the projectâ€™s influence beyond the 42-month duration.
The combination of these upcoming activities with those that have already been carried out from 01 March 2018 to 31 October 2019 will increase the impacts of SUMPs-Up. The voluminous list of impacts the project is expected to have following its completion include improvements in the quality of SUMP planning processes, a deeper understanding of the barriers to SUMP development and citiesâ€™ SUMP needs, an increased number of formally adopted SUMPs (at least 60), as well as enhanced EU-level and Member State dialogue concerning SUMP.