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

2. 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”

3. Integration in the SUMP planning cycle

4. 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”

6. Why is integration important?

7. 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”

8. 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?

9. Integration has many faces

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

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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)

21. 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!

22. 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?

23. Thank you for your attention!
Ivo Cré
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