Sustainable mobility planning processes can only be developed and implemented together with citizens. A state-wide population survey in Hesse aims to find out what makes it attractive for citizens to participate in such processes. The aim is to find out which participation formats appeal and how they can be designed to encourage citizens to participate even more actively.
In many regions, there are already promising approaches to planning sustainable mobility – mobility that is both environmentally friendly and inclusive by taking into account the needs of all population groups. Such strategic planning is particularly successful when citizens can actively participate in planning processes – be it through participation in events, surveys or digital participation opportunities. This ensures that the needs of the population are heard and can be incorporated into the design of new services as well as the further development of existing ones.
In order to better integrate the interests and needs of citizens in Hesse, aconium GmbH is currently conducting an online survey for the Sustainable Urban Mobility Center of the State of Hesse (FZ-NUM). This gives citizens in Hesse the opportunity to tell us how they currently find out about mobility services and opportunities to participate in mobility planning processes.
The main aim is to find out what participation opportunities in such planning processes should look like so that they are attractive to different target groups. For this reason, the survey also specifically asks which participation opportunities citizens currently make use of, what may prevent them from getting actively involved and how formats can be made even more attractive in order to encourage the population to participate more actively.
The answers from the survey should help to tailor the participation opportunities for citizens even better to the needs of different target groups in the future.
The survey was developed by aconium on behalf of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Center of the State of Hesse, which is a partner in the European cooperation project e-smartec (“Enhanced sustainable mobility with marketing techniques”). Nine partners from seven EU countries are working together in e-smartec to develop locally adapted participation methods for sustainable mobility planning processes through the exchange of European “good practice examples”. The inclusion of the citizens’ perspective forms an important basis for this.
The results of the survey will be published on the FZ-NUM website after evaluation by aconium GmbH.