Smart mobility planning
Integrated transport planning is essential for the future of cities and countries in Africa that foster sustainable development of mobility. Here, urban mobility currently faces significant challenges that hinder accessibility, liveability, safety and economic development. These challenges are result of factors such as rapid urbanization, climate impact, inadequate infrastructure and limited public transportation options. DASUDA recognizes the urgent need to address these issues and practices her motto ‘If you fail to plan, you plan to fail’. In these processes, planning decisions involve all stakeholders: from local, national and international authorities, to civil society members, NGO’s and business people. With a strong emphasis on the human side of mobility, DASUDA lead partner MOVE Mobility aims to connect people through networks and create Smart Moving Cities.
Our objective is to enhance the overall quality of life for urban dwellers in African cities and improve accessibility to essential services such as education, healthcare and employment opportunities.
Before designing and implementing successful policies, we build strong visions and viable scenarios. These scenarios might strive for enhancing concrete infrastructure measures (“Hardware”), as well as organisational improvements (“Org-ware”). ”Hardware” transport policy measures include infrastructure design or the management of transport, “software” policy measures refer to actions such as information dissemination or voluntary switches to sustainable modes of transport and model split. “Orgware” measures refer to institutional and financial arrangements, as were successfully set-up multiple times by DASUDA lead partner Rebel Group. Depending on the set of measures used, they can then be formulated into different mobility scenarios accordingly.
PLAATJE
DASUDA adopts an integrated approach, the ‘quadruple bottom line’ of transport sustainability: the social, environmental, economic and participation dimension. We strongly believe that a sustainable transport system should:
- Social dimension: Respond to safe basic transportation needs of people and goods, provide affordable, inclusive and equal access to transportation means for all people, regardless of their race, gender, background, pedestrian-friendly etc.
- Environmental dimension: Reduce and limit air polluting emissions and waste, minimise noise and impact on land use.
- Economic dimension: Be affordable, efficient.
- Participatory dimension: The process of achieving a sustainable transport system should be a participatory and co-creative process and should include all relevant stakeholders, through vertical (at different government and administration level: national, regional, local) and horizontal (actors from the public sector, from businesses and the civil society) multi-level governance.
