The use of indicators for integrated spatial and mobility planning in European cities.

This paper presents the results concerning the identification of innovative practices in land use and transport policy in order to reduce car dependency in European cities and regions and to promote economic, social and environmental improvement. Special attention is given to the development of integrated land use and transport monitoring systems. Findings and case study documents can be found on www.transplus.net. The main goal of TRANSPLUS is to identify good practices regarding the integration of land use and transport in the various stages of the planning process. In order to select the most interesting and innovative practices in Europe, a filtering approach was implemented. Starting point was an extensive database of nearly 70 cities or regions with quantitative (population figures, economic figures, social figures...) and qualitative (recent policy initiatives, interesting particularities...) information on the city or region and a short description of interesting policy elements. This database was composed by the project local partners. In-depth case study cities were selected following a three step approach starting with a first scan, followed by a written questionnaire and completed by a series of in-depth interviews. The first scan comprised an extensive collection of existing urban indicators (population figures, economic figures, social figures...) and other city information (recent policy initiatives, interesting particularities...). Based on the results of this desk research 23 cities were selected, taking into account criteria such as geographical spread, spread in city typologies such as size and urban structure (monocentric - polycentric - spread out - urban networks) and the innovative character. For these cities interviews were executed with one or more city representatives based on a standard questionnaire, addressing questions about planning, project implementation, tools and monitoring, barriers and communication. These questionnaires allowed the most interesting cases to be selected for each research item and they were further examined through in depth interviews with several city representatives. Figure 2 presents the 22 case studies (Bucharest was also included in the original list but has been omitted here due to lack of information), which were retained for in-depth analysis in one or more of the study's research areas. For the covering abstract see ITRD E123193.