Tools for practitioners from the MAX-project (new November 2009)The MAX-project ran from 2006 to 2009 and was the largest research project on Mobility Management within the EU’s sixth framework programme. It served to extend, standardise and improve Mobility Management - it did so in the fields of quality management, campaigns, evaluation, modelling and land use planning.In these fields, MAX produced new research results - and from this a whole array of tools. Find below the links to the various tools:
Starting with Mobility Management
MAX defines, describes and helps you to choose the right measures for your MM projects with the help of MaxExplorer
Quality in Mobility Management
MaxQ - a system to organise, assure quality and systematically improve MM
Plan, monitor and evaluate
For this you can use MaxSumo and MaxEva
- MaxSumo: MaxSumo aims to standardise evaluation at the European level and helps you in planning, monitoring and evaluating your Mobility Management Projects
- MaxEva: with the MaxEva database we aim to build up knowledge. MaxEva is available online and will store your evaluation data. The more that MaxEva is used, the more MM results there will be to compare and use in planning new projects.
Understand behaviour
MaxSem is a psychological model which explains the underlying processes involved in changing the behaviours of car drivers to more sustainable transport modes and allows you to gain a ‘fuller picture’ of the effects of MM and to segment your target group according to the models assumptions.
Travel Awareness Campaigns
Campaigns are an important component of MM - MAX shows how to make them effective.
Land Use Planning and Mobility Management
The potential of MM is even greater when it is integrated with Land Use Planning: MAX has developed guidelines on how to do this
Please take the first steps to try out the tools and to improve your mobility management projects and measures.
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Guidelines and Best Practice Guides on Travel Plans published by the UK DfT and CLGThe UK Departments for Transport (DfT) and Communities and Local Government (CLG) have jointly published a report; Good Practice Guidelines: Delivering Travel Plans through the Planning Process.
Travel plans have been used successfully for many years, whether secured through the planning process or prepared on a voluntary basis. They are an important tool for developing and promoting sustainable travel - e.g. walking, cycling, public transport, and help to reduce single occupancy car use. There have been significant developments in both planning and transport in recent years in relation to sustainability. By integrating sustainable travel into the planning process we can deliver travel plans and changes in travel behavior that are effective, convenient and have longevity.
The guidelines will be valuable to those who work in either transport or planning who will find the detailed information, good practice and case studies helpful.
The new publication, a summary report and research report are available on the DfT website.
Good Practice Guidelines: Delivering Travel Plans through the Planning Process: Summary of main report
This summary outlines the benefits of travel plans, the key aspects within all stages of the planning process and how to ensure they are maintained. It supports the main document which provides the detail for those undertaking travel plans in relation to the planning process. The suggested steps are recommendations only, and are not additions to Government policy or law.
Summary of main report (895 kB) Good Practice Guidelines: Delivering Travel Plans through the Planning Process
These guidelines provide best practice, drawn from case study research, to help local authorities, developers and planners produce high quality, robust travel plans. The suggested steps are recommendations only, and are not additions to Government policy or law.
Main report (1,796 kB) Good Practice Guidelines: Delivering Travel Plans through the Planning Process: Research report
This research provides the background evidence to support the best practice guidelines. It is a consultant’s report and as such the views expressed in the document should not be considered to be those of DfT.
Research report (1,899 kB) |
IEE - Intelligent Energy eLibraryDo you want to set up a mobility management strategy and are you looking for guidelines or action plan models? Are you a transport operator investigating options for greening your transport fleet? Are you looking ways of saving fuel and cutting your operation costs? This section provides you with a complete list of tools and guidebooks dealing with energy use in transport gathered in the IEe-library. It includes technological and non-technological evaluation and monitoring systems, benchmarking tools, planning tools, guidelines and guidebooks, calculation tools, training materials, action plan models and many other tools. You can also search for tools and guidebooks in the thematic sub-sections: Alternative Fuels and Vehicles, Collective Passenger Transport, Cycling and Walking, Freight and Mobility Management. Or, to search by a more comprehensive set of criteria you can use the advanced search facility. If you are looking for tools and guidebooks on urban planning or on biofuels (supply side) you will find additional tools and guidebooks under the themes of Local Energy Management and Renewable Energy respectively.
>> WebsiteBrochure (2,420 kB) |
Sustainable transport indicators: selection and useOne of the projects of DISTILLATE - Design and Implementation Support Tools for Integrated Local Land use, Transport and the Environment - is to develop option generation tools, which will improve the quality of transport/land use strategies and schemes by enhancing the range, innovation and quality of the options input to the forecasting and appraisal procedures.
The document ‘Sustainable transport indicators: selection and use’ is a tool aimed at helping cities/local authorities choose appropriate sustainable transport indicators relevant to their needs and addresses barriers in implementation and how these might be overcome.
More information can be found on www.distillate.ac.uk
DISTILLATE_Sustainable.pdf |
Enhanced Appraisal ToolsOne of the projects of DISTILLATE - Design and Implementation Support Tools for Integrated Local Land use, Transport and the Environment - explores the issue of appraisal as a barrier to the implementation of sustainable land use and transport policies with the aim of developing improvements in appraisal methods to overcome these barriers.
The document ‘Enhanced Appraisal Tools’ looks at the appraisal process in a transport setting and how it is used in decision making process as well as the barriers identified by local authorities and the research issues raised by these barriers. It identifies three possible products that might help local authorities address these barriers and the development of an “initial/outline” appraisal method and appraisal methods for small schemes.
DISTILLATE-Enhanced.pdf |
Encouraging public transport use through land use planningOne of the projects of DISTILLATE - Design and Implementation Support Tools for Integrated Local Land use, Transport and the Environment - enhances existing predictive transport and land use models so that they can be used more effectively and intensively by local authorities and other stakeholders ..
The document ‘Encouraging public transport use through land use planning’ provides a guide to practitioners on how to:
- improve conditions for the efficient operation of public transport,
- locate land uses close to public transport services which serve them, and
- increase the demand for public transport, particularly by encouraging mode change from the private car.
DISTILLATE_Encouraging.pdf |
KONSULTKONSULT provides up to date information on the performance of a wide range of urban transport policy instruments. As a knowledgebase, it allows each policy measure to be described, with multimedia images of operation where appropriate; they can then be assessed against a common set of potential objectives of urban transport policy; and to be represented by case studies of good practice in their use. For as many measures as possible, an assessment is given of the contexts in which each policy measure performs best. Links are provided between the policy instruments so that opportunities can be identified for integrating them to achieve enhanced performance against the objectives.
www.elseviersocialsciences.comGood Practice in Freight TransportThe report is intended to reinforce the move towards sustainable freight transport. Available in 5 languages on the DG Environment website.
view document on DG ENV website |
Statistical indicators on local and regional passenger transport in 40 European cities and regionsWithin the Citizens' Network Benchmarking Initiative this report has been published in 2002 containing the "Results of the
common indicators - Statistical indicators on local and regional passenger transport in 40 European cities and regions"
In the framework of the project a series of 39 common indicators have been developed. The common indicators are grouped according to different themes covering all the relevant modes of transport (private car, public transport, walking, cycling, powered two-wheeler and taxi) and certain elements relating to the social and environmental consequences of transport at the urban and regional level.
The report can be downloaded here:
Common Indicators
Benchmarking Common Indicators (1,560 kB) |
The Essential guide to travel planning (Department for Transport, 2008)This guide is the latest UK advice on developing and implementing 'travel plans' at workplace organisations. The guide draws on best practice examples and provides a step-by-step process to succesfully implement a travel plan for individual organisations.
Essential Guide (1,073 kB) |
Making Car Sharing and Car Clubs Work: A Good Practice Guide (Department for Transport, 2005)This guide provides guidance for stakeholders to successfully implement car sharing schemes or car clubs. The report is the outcome of a detailed study carried out in 2004 into the effectiveness of current schemes established across the UK, and draws on the experience of over 20 case study sites. The guidance is supported by a detailed study report and full case study reports.
Good Practice Guide (2,944 kB) |
SPUTNIC - ReportThe report constitutes Deliverable 2 of the SPUTNIC project and provides an overview of the general challenges facing the public transport sector that should be taken into account when providing input for future public transport related policy and research agendas.
The objective of this report is to describe the most pressing challenges that currently face the public transport sector and that will have a considerable impact on its future development. These challenges are grouped into four categories:
- Challenges concerning the interaction between the different public transport actors
- Challenges related to the internal organisation of (traditional) operators
- Challenges stemming from the relations with the customers
- Challenges related to technical aspects of public transport
The report can be downloaded here (651 kB) |
Ease-of-Use in Public Transportation -- A User Perspective on Information and Orientation AspectsThis multi-disciplinary PhD thesis combines psychology and transport planning. It investigates the cognitive user perspective and presents concrete proposals on how to make public transport systems in metropolitan areas easier to use.
Ease-of-Use in Public Transportation (576 kB)
Appendix: Quantitative questionnaire (193 kB) |
Integral management of liquid waste - Results of URBANBAT project (LIFE)URBANBAT represents an innovative and pioneering initiative thanks to the reduction of the environmental impact of the transport sector in general and of the public transit sector in particular. The project achieved what was planned in the proposal: to define a waste management model for the majority of liquid residuals generated in the maintenance and operation of vehicles’ urban fleet by reducing environmental hazards and increasing its life span.
Regarding water from washing bodywork, almost all the water consumed was reused (13,300 m3/year). Recovery of 87% of the used water produced high-quality water, and recovery of the remaining 11% produced water that could be put to other, less demanding uses. There was 100% recovery of waters with used antifreeze. Of the 230 m3/year of water used in the washing engines and motors, 96% is recoverable. However, all treated water from cleaning cooling circuits and radiators (65 m3/year) is not-recoverable and must be dumped down the drain after conditioning.
read more in the layman report (8,194 kB) project website |
The Urban Transport Benchmarking InitiativeThe benchmarking initiative (www.transportbenchmarks.org, website no longer available) was undertaken in line with the European Union's policy approach, placing considerable importance upon the roles that attractive, efficient local and regional transport systems can play in the economic development and social cohesion of the Member States. This guide outlines a series of good practice case studies observed during the three years of the Urban Transport Benchmarking Initiative.
Good Practice Case Study Handbook (1,283 kB) |
Handbook for the implementation of a corporate cycling systemDesigned within the Interreg lllB-Alpine Space VIANOVA project.
Example from Bolzano, Italy (5,982 kB) |
Cycle to work campaign - Ressource-packThis ressource-pack contains a manual and various other practical and useful documents for practitioners that would like to set up and carry out the campaign "By bike to work". This campaign has been designed by the AOK Bavaria and the ADFC and has been successfully carried out for several years in Germany. Also in other countries like Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein etc. the campaign has been implemented. This ressource-pack has been designed and produced within the VIANOVA project in the Interreg lllB Alpine Space program. See also www.eu-vianova.net
Manual (12,118 kB)
Ressource-pack (9,507 kB) |
Guide for Improving the User-friendliness of Information Services of Public TransportThis report is a part of the HEILI Programme Area concerned with the production of basic information of public transport, but it also has links with FITS (Finnish Research and Development Programme on Intelligent Transport System Infrastructures) Project Area 2, "Evaluation of impacts and user requirements." The purpose of this study was to provide guidance concerning the user-friendliness of especially on-line information services. This report has also been published in Finnish.
www.heili.info |
The "Manual de Buenas Prácticas en la Cadena del Transporte"The "Manual de Buenas Prácticas en la Cadena del Transporte" has been developed within the EU funded URB AL project "Accessibilidad al Transporte Público de las personas con movilidad reducida". Besides the different aspects and solutions for problems for people with reduced mobility it contains a small selection of good practise case studies. Although the manual is available only in Spanish language it is bounteous illustrated and therefore also of value for people who don't speak Spanish.
Personas con movilidad reducida MANUAL DE BUENAS PRACTICAS (4,606 kB) |
TAPESTRY HandbookHandbook for Transport campaigns (1,615 kB) |
GUIDEMAPS Handbook
Handbook for successful transport decision-making (12,202 kB) |
Thematic Leadership BrochureCity of Genoa - Flexible transport systems - en (2,723 kB)
City of Genoa - Flexible transport systems - it (1,773 kB) |
TRICS Trip Generation Assessment Tool (UK)This tool is run by a consultancy on behalf of a consortium of UK local authorities. It contains data from traffic counts and multi-modal surveys at over 2400 different sites across the UK to provide trip generation data, including mode share and trip arrival and departure rates, for use in the assessment of the transport impacts of new development. It is not a free tool although rates are reasonable, particularly for educational institutions. More information and a sample of the software are available at www.trics.org. |
A Travel Plan Resource Pack for Employers (UK)This 174 page resource pack gives much detailed advice to any employer who wants to develop a mobility management plan. It covers general background, roles and responsibilities in the process, how to understand current travel patterns, how to set targets and identify measures to achieve them, how to market the travel plan to staff, and how to deal with financial issues. It is full of real life examples of successful mobility management plans and also provides a lot of useful links and other contacts. It is available to download here. |
Workplace Travel Plan Evaluation Tool (UK)This software-based tool gives an estimate of the likely effectiveness of a travel plan (mobility management plan) at a workplace, based on the inputs that are proposed for that plan. It is useful for anyone producing or assessing travel plan documents, especially as part of the planning process. Details of the tool and how to obtain it are available here.
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PIRATE Project- Promoting Interchange Rationale, Accessibility and Transfer EfficiencyProject on interchanges and interface between modes of transport, which aims to promote awareness on interchanges, remove barriers to public transport by improving interchanges, and test new technology in interchange design.
Final Report |
BESTRANS: Benchmarking for Energy and Emission Performance in Urban Transport OperationsThe guide, developed within the framework of the BESTRANS project, introduces and guides operators or other stakeholders through the different steps of energy and emission performance benchmarking in an easy-to-read and accessible way.
BESTRANS benchmark guide (595 kB)
BESTRANS website |
Travelling to school: a good practice guideThis good practice guide for local transport and education authorities describes what schools, local authorities and bus operators around UK have been doing to promote walking, cycling and public transport and combat increasing car use. More than 2,000 schools have already implemented this agenda, and the majority found it easy to engage its local transport authority in setting up walking buses and changing road layouts.
Travelling to school: a good practice guide (550 kB) |
Practitioners' Handbook for TTI Service Implementation in European Cities and RegionsATLANTIC (2001-2003) is a thematic network funded by the DG Information Society of the European Commission. The Handbook is the last of the project's deliverable. Its aim is to enhance discussion and knnowledge exchange between researches in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in the Canada, Europe and the US.
Handbook (2,557 kB)
ATLANTIC website |
TAPESTRY Project Policy RecommendationsThe overal aim of TAPESTRY project is to increase knowledge and understanding of how to develop effective communication programmes to support sustainable transport policies in Europe. "to increase knowledge and understanding of how to develop effective communication programmes to support sustainable transport policies in Europe". "to increase knowledge and understanding of how to develop effective communication programmes to support sustainable transport policies in Europe".
Checklists (54 kB)
Overview (45 kB)
Policy and Research Recommendations (49 kB) |
COST 335- Passenger's Accessibility to Heavy Rail SystemsThe objective of the project was to produce guidelines for governments and railway operators on best practice in achieving full accessibility for their services and facilities. Final Report and Stations Handbook available at the COST-Transport website.
COST-Transport |
