TRAMIGO aims to enhance mobility offerings for people's daily lives by developing a regional mobility framework. The project adopts a people-centered approach, emphasizing personal relationships and the resulting mobility networks.
Many cities aim to reduce private car ownership and usage by improving mobility offerings and implementing restrictive measures. However, cities are not isolated entities; they are deeply interconnected with their surrounding areas through residential, work, and leisure networks. A successful transformation toward greater multimodality or reduced car traffic requires understanding and addressing the causes of these regional mobility networks.
This is where the TRAMIGO project comes in. It investigates the underlying factors and drivers of these mobility networks. Using the city of Karlsruhe and its surrounding municipalities as an example for other regiopoles, the project focuses on designing climate-friendly origin-destination traffic and improving mobility networks between municipalities.
The project aims to identify future potentials for the region through regional dialogue events and develop measures to make traffic between Karlsruhe and surrounding municipalities more sustainable. The needs of various societal groups are assessed to estimate the feasibility of these measures, which are tested in interconnected real-world experiments.
The primary goal is to gather diverse knowledge about the conditions neccesary for the desired transformation towards sustainability:
Based on a guiding vision, the project creates actionable transformation paths to enable sustainable mobility development. Real-world experiments provide insights into the feasibility of measures within the city-region context. A final impact analysis evaluates the balance between effectiveness and feasibility, identifying solutions to challenges.
Additionally, the project examines the scalability and transferability of insights from the experiments to other spatial contexts and modeling tools. The ultimate goal is to develop long-term sustainable mobility strategies that are applicable regionally and beyond.
The Fraunhofer ISI team is responsible for the following work packages:
Transformation modelling
This work package captures individual and societal transformation processes using simulation tools. Fraunhofer ISI focuses on expanding the MobileCity app regionally to analyze transformation processes in mobility and society over 20–30 years. The existing MobileCity model is extended to represent relevant measures and societal dynamics.
MobileCity-App enhancements:
The MobileCity app, originally developed as part of the Mobility Future Labs 2050 (Mobilitätszukunftslabore 2050) for Karlsruhe, is expanded to include:
A digital twin of the app is created in an accessible programming language (e.g., Python) to enable experimental approaches to traffic forecasting and transformation research. An accompanying wiki serves as an information source for users and will be independently published.
Mobility Perspectives for the Region
This work package focuses on developing mobility perspectives that translate the desired regional mobility development into clear and communicable images and narratives. Stakeholders from public institutions, politics, administration, businesses, and associations are actively involved in shaping these perspectives. The resulting mobility perspectives serve as a normative framework and provide direction for subsequent planning and implementation processes.
Developing Action Packages
The mobility perspectives are transformed into concrete action packages that outline specific activities, taking into account geographic and thematic priorities as well as time horizons. Key stakeholders, including municipalities, transport providers, and civil society, are actively engaged in identifying drivers, barriers, and opportunities to ensure the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed measures.
Governance Structures for Successful Implementation
This work package aims to develop knowledge on governance structures that facilitate the successful implementation of the mobility perspectives and action packages. Best practices in cooperative governance are analyzed and adapted to the specific context of the Karlsruhe region. Innovative approaches, such as agile administration and collaborative governance, are employed to enhance communication and cooperation among stakeholders, fostering the development of effective and sustainable mobility strategies.
October 2024 – September 2029
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