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Social2Mobility II - Enabling social participation and bicycle mobility
The BMBF-funded research project "Social2Mobility" (duration 01.04.2019-31.03.2022) aimed to strengthen the social participation of population groups threatened or affected by poverty by promoting self-determined, affordable and environmentally friendly mobility. On 01.04.2022, the follow-up project Social2Mobility II was launched to implement and integrate the measures developed in the Hannover Region in the long term.
The results of the first phase of Social2Mobility show that mobility management measures to promote bicycle mobility have a particularly high potential to increase the social participation of people at risk of poverty. Switching from cars to bicycles also contributes to a socially and environmentally just transport transition at a societal level.
Based on these findings, measures to promote bicycle mobility will be implemented specifically for people at risk of poverty. Firstly, it will be examined to what extent the measures implemented to promote bicycle mobility contribute to strengthening the social participation of people at risk of poverty (individual level). Secondly, the contribution that measures to promote bicycle mobility, which specifically increase the mobility options of people at risk of poverty, can make to the transport transition will be determined (societal level). Thirdly, it examines how the implementation process for these measures should be designed so that the greatest possible contribution is made at an individual and societal level (procedural level).
The implementation of the measures is accompanied by a process evaluation to continuously optimize the implementation process as well as by a qualitative and quantitative impact evaluation. The qualitative impact evaluation aims to investigate the transport and social effects of the measures, particularly with regard to participation, from the perspective of people at risk of poverty. The quantitative impact evaluation examines in particular the change in mobility options, the choice of means of transport and the environmental impact. As mobility management measures and their effects (on the choice of means of transport) cannot yet be mapped using transport demand models, a new model approach is being developed and implemented in the transport demand model of the Hannover Region.
The Social2Mobility II project is being carried out jointly by the Hannover Region, the Universities of Kassel and Frankfurt am Main and WVI Verkehrsforschung und Infrastrukturplanung GmbH. The BMBF is funding the research project with a total of 1.06 million euros as part of the implementation of the flagship initiative City of the Future. The University of Kassel's share amounts to 540,000 euros. The project sponsor is the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
Further information can be found at
Contact:
M. Sc. Alena Fischer and M. Sc. Franziska Kesper
Department of Transport Planning and Transportation Systems
Phone: +49 561 804-3281
Email:
alena.fischer@uni-kassel.de
franziska.kesper@uni-kassel.de