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Developing a Stakeholder-Centric Simulation Tool to Support Integrated Mobility Planning

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Advances in Social Simulation

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Simulation tools aimed at enhancing cross-sectoral cooperation can support the transition from a traditional transport planning approach based on predictions towards more integrated and participatory urban mobility planning. This shift entails a broader appraisal of urban dynamics and transformations in the policy framework, capitalizing on new developments in urban modelling. In this paper, we argue that participatory social simulation can be used to solve these emerging challenges in mobility planning. We identify the functionalities that such a tool should have when supporting integrated mobility planning. Drawing on a transdisciplinary case study situated in Potsdam, Germany, we address through interviews and workshops stakeholders’ needs and expectations and present the requirements of an actionable tool for practitioners. As a result, we present three main challenges for participatory, simulation-based transport planning, including: (1) enhancement of the visioning process by testing stakeholders’ ideas under different scenarios and conditions to visualise complex urban relationships; (2) promotion of collective exchange as means to support stakeholder communication; and (3) credibility increase by early stakeholder engagement with model development. We discuss how our participatory modelling approach helps us to better understand the gaps in the knowledge of the planning process and present the coming steps of the project.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Insofar at the European level, almost 830 SUMPs have been finalized and 100 more are under preparation [19] and in Germany, most of municipal transport strategies are oriented to the SUMP [20]. This trend is expected to continue as the European Court of Auditors suggested to make the existence of SUMP a mandatory requirement to access EU funding for urban mobility investments [19].

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    The interviews took place both in-site and on-line between June and July 2020, according to personal preferences and the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The conversations took place in German language and the transcripts quoted in this paper are our own translation.

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SmartUpLab is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF, Europäische Fonds für regionale Entwicklung - EFRE in German), grant number 85037057.

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    Diego Dametto, Gabriela Michelini, Leonard Higi, Tobias Schröder, Daniel Klaperski, Roy Popiolek, Anne Tauch & Antje Michel

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Dametto, D. et al. (2022). Developing a Stakeholder-Centric Simulation Tool to Support Integrated Mobility Planning. In: Czupryna, M., Kamiński, B. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92843-8_6

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