Co-designing Inclusive Mobility

About this project

<p>The main objective of the project is to reduce car usage in Warsaw. In 2016 there were 571 passenger cars per 1000 inhabitants in Poland which accounted to a total of 21 million cars. Car trips &nbsp;account to 77.3% of all passenger-kilometers travelled (2015) and the use of buses and coaches to 14.5% which is more than the EU28 average (9.4%) (EC, 2019). Since parents driving to schools generate a substantial portion of traffic this project focuses on school communities. Together with parents, municipalities, and local businesses we will co-create and examine possible changes in school neighborhood to reduce car usage. As a result we will deliver a package of tools and methods that can help to change citizens’ mobility choices such as a method for co-designing inclusive and evolving mobility in local communities; air quality and climate change projections for future mobility scenarios; identification of barriers and opportunities for reduction of car ownership in Poland; promotion of active mobility and public transport in local communities; etc.<br> This will result in delivering knowledge for policy-makers and access to data-driven solutions, access to information for general public, citizens and journalists, innovations in local business, improved air quality, better health, and reduction of economic losses due to ill-health.<br> All partners will benefit from the project’s unique opportunity to co-design interdisciplinary processes by being exposed to and learning from each other’s expertise. Each researcher will benefit from the holistic approach of the project and the access to the project’s data. The new partnerships between different scientific institutions and disciplines aim at expanding their collaboration beyond this project.<br> References:&nbsp;<br> [1] Report: Poland. https://ec.europa.eu/environment/eir/pdf/report_pl_en.pdf<br> [2] EC, European Commission. (2019) The EU Environmental Implementation Review 2019. Country<br> &nbsp;</p>

Bilateral cooperation results

The inclusion of Norwegian partners helped built a truly transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach in the project. As an example, NILU contribution has shown how large differences in air pollution within the City of Warsaw can be. In the case of travel mode choice modelling it helped interpret the findings revealing the links suggesting the impact of air pollution on mode choices. As shown by NILU experience, air pollution can be a measure of street congestion and one more indicator relevant for mode choice modelling. This and other findings are planned to be summarised in research papers co-authored by Polish and Norwegian partners. Five collaborative papers have been already submitted and two more are prepared. The links between mobility behaviours, car ownership patterns and air pollution were confirmed to be particularly challenging. In particular, they were exploited and discussed during a combined workshop delivered at the final CoMobility conference by Polish and Norwegian partners discussing together mode choice modelling and air pollution modelling. New knowledge on these interrelated topics has been acquired in the project, which will be transformed into research papers. Hence, the bilateral collaboration with Norwegian partners will be continued. The fact that both Polish and Norwegian partners have worked on the data of the same city of Warsaw and have in-depth understanding of the needs and plans of the city will largely help continue this collaboration. Thanks to the cooperation with FNI, the identification of best practices to be used in other contexts (involvement of citizens, kids) was deepened and enriched by the anthropologist perspective, in addition to economic, sociological and psychological ones. Plans to explore future funding opportunities for joint research are established, and a research proposal on ageism in urban mobility has been submitted by the UW team with a letter of intent for cooperation with FNI upon granting funds.

Project partners

• Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) Donor project partner· Norway
• Fridtjof Nansen Institute Donor project partner· Norway
• On-site Foundation Project partner· Poland
• Warsaw School of Economics Project partner· Poland
• Municipality of Lublin Project partner· Poland
• Warsaw University of Technology Project partner· Poland