Integration What does it mean in the SUMP context? Technical Training Workshop Ivo Cré, Polis

Overview Integration in the SUMP planning cycle. Why is integration important? Integration: what is it to you? The many faces of integration… Designing integrated packages of measures Q&A of “enablers”

Integration in the SUMP planning cycle

A Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan is a “strategic plan designed to satisfy the mobility needs of people and businesses in cities and their surroundings for a better quality of life. It builds on existing practices and takes due consideration of integration, participation and evaluation principles.“ Sustainable urban mobility planning stands for being able to plan for the future of your city with its people as the focus. “Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans - planning for people”

Why is integration important?

It makes the plan more efficient and effective, by making use of synergetic effects (e.g. measures that impact on several policy objectives). It improves the acceptability of the plan by involving and answering to the needs of different societal sectors. It can facilitate to attract external funding by aligning to the objectives of funding bodies (e.g. national funding linked to specific objectives). It can improve the benefits of cooperation with (private) operators and service providers that can be seen as “integrators”

Exercise: Integration: what is it to you. Make three lists: 1 Exercise: Integration: what is it to you? Make three lists: 1. which organisations do you work with on daily basis in your urban transport projects? 2. what are the professional backgrounds of the people you work with? 3. which policies do you implement (transport, environment, social etc.) and are these local, regional, national or European?

Integration has many faces

Integration has many faces Horizontal integration Vertical integration Territorial integration Intermodal integration Integration at measures level Integration has many faces

Horizontal integration An urban transport plan will be sustainable if it covers certain local economic, social and environmental policy criteria. This requires knowledge about related policy fields at the local level and access to the relevant decision makers and experts. Output: Vision, policy summaries, stakeholder map Activity 1.1, 2.2 Environment Social policies Land use Transport Etc.

Horizontal integration: Example Kouvola Inter-sectoral working group Regional council, Finnish Road Administration, Finnish Rail Administration, state office, 7 municipalities + health service and environment centre = citizens Letter of Intent Bristol 4 councils with different political majorities Officer Groups and involvment of Local Strategic Partnerships

Vertical integration urban transport planning processes are embedded in a wider regional and national (and sometimes international) framework This includes top-down as well as bottom-up processes Output: a synopsis of relevant frameworks! Activity 1.2, 2.2 International European National Regional Metropolitan Districts or boroughs

Vertical integration: example The Covenant of Mayors Climate action and Energy policy Signatories contribute to the 20 / 20 / 20 targets in the field of Energy and GHG reduction Implementation of a Sustainable Energy Action Plan, with SEAP guidebook 3056 signatories

Territorial integration A plan must relate to a specific territory for which it is performed. Ideally this coincides with functional spatial interdependencies and traffic flows, including higher level networks. This might require an inter-institutional dialogue. Output: Definition of the planning perimeter and communication/decision making structure Activity 2.1 Activity Entity B Entity C Entity A Entity E Entity D

Territorial integration: example Joint local transport plans England West Yorkshire LTP Partnership Brand Common bids for national level funding

Intermodal integration The SUMP process should ensure linkages between different transport modes and develop a common view on hierarchy and interaction between different transport networks Specific planning methodology Proposed network hierarchy per mode Gap analysis per network Combined network layers to define interaction and nodal development Activity 2.2, 6.4

Integration at measures level: defining packages Packages of measures can make use of synergies and reinforce each other Important advantage: one political decision covers several actions Different taxonomies: CIVITAS 8 categories Integrational effects: Increased effects on the achievement of traffic related objectives Compensate ‘losers’ (fairness, limit ‘welfare loss’), thus add to public acceptability Financial interdependence Practical and technical synergies Dependent on ‘negotiability’ (e.g. Short term, visible implementation) Activity 6.4

Integration at measures level: now it is your turn! Split up in groups of 4. You receive a stack of cards. Each card represents a concrete measure and a number of credits. Build logical packages with a given maximum of credits. Two groups will be asked to present your proposal to the plenary as example. In your presentation: please describe the integrational effects: Increased effects on the achievement of traffic related objectives Compensate ‘losers’ (fairness, limit ‘welfare loss’), thus add to public acceptability Financial interdependence Practical and technical synergies Dependent on ‘negotiability’ (e.g. Short term, visible measures)

To conclude… Finally, a definition… Pragmatic cooperation with actors and take-up of ideas, principles and policies that help you to deliver an SUMP that is accepted, efficient and effective in practical and financial terms. Make integration concrete: summary notes, additional person in a meeting etc. Speak in terms of costs and benefits to describe the effect of (the lack of) integration Think multimodal!

Questions for discussion… Is the multimodal paradigm already acquired, or is this still something that needs to be defended and explained in your national context? Are the structures for institutional cooperation in your national context in place, or will you have to improvise in this regard? Can you think of mechanisms or examples where other policy areas are not only interested cooperation with the transport sector, but are also interested to contribute financially to measure implementation?

Thank you for your attention! Ivo Cré icre@polisnetwork.eu www.mobilityplans.eu Trainer could enter his/her contact information in font size 20 between the thank-you note and the website address.