Mobility management, often called smart mobility’, is a cost-effective instrument for bringing mobility and transport more in line with sustainability. It is complementary to technology and infrastructure measures and it is the additional key needed to achieve sustainable mobility on the local, national and European levels. Therefore current budget cuts should not endanger measures and solutions for sustainable mobility. On the contrary the need for developing and implementing cost-effective measures like mobility management is increasing. It is urgent that we solve the wide variety of sustainability problems caused by transport, particularly environmental, health and social burdens to our citizens. Moreover we need to shift the current unbalanced modal split and decrease the enormous dependency of today’s transport on fossil fuels, which result in high economic costs. The concept of ‘mobility management’ has evolved from these concerns: it is the smart management of mobility needs. Mobility management is a relatively new approach, still in its early stages, but nonetheless developing rapidly in an increasing number of European countries. Just as seeing is believing, likewise showing the benefits of mobility management is the best way to convince people. Hence, this report provides an overview of best practices in mobility management from the current 11 Member States of the European Platform on Mobility Management (EPOMM). These Member States have achieved impressive results in delivering smart mobility management actions. This EPOMM report provides inspiring case studies and is meant to serve as a source of inspiration for interested countries and the European Union as a whole. The best practises detailed here cannot simply be “copied and pasted”, as the contextual environments differ among countries, however they can provide ideas and proven concepts which are worth disseminating amongst countries and on the European level. The aim of this brochure is to share these international experiences and offer a glimpse behind the curtain of EPOMM member countries. The brochure is based on a Dutch report written and published in 2012 by KpVV, EPOMM’s National Focal Point in the Netherlands, which has garnered a wide variety of insights into mobility management from all over Europe. (Author/publisher)
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