DREAMS
Driving Equitable and Accessible 15-Minute Neighborhood Transformations
General Discription:
The DREAMS project addresses the challenges of implementing the 15-minute city neighborhoods in urban outskirts. Therefore, its main objective is to examine how co-created and user-centric mobility services, mobility, and flexible activity hubs can contribute to accessible, sustainaale, and inclusive 15-minute city neighborhoods in urban outskirts in European cities and regions. The project is a transdisciplinary consortium of 28 partners, composed of researchers and stakeholders from universities, municipalities, and regional governments, mobility providers (including micro-mobility, car sharing, ride-sharing, and public transport), NGOs, local activity pop-up facilitators, business funding agencies and other public and private partners. DREAMS will conduct research in six living labs across Europe: Budapest, Brussels, Munich, Paris, Utrecht, and Vienna. Munich’s Living Lab aims to explore 15-minute city strategies to mitigate inequalities in access to basic needs within 15-minute neighborhoods in the Municipalities of Geretsried and Wolfratshausen, focusing on the migrant population. The choice for this group is due to their potential social exclusion to peripheral areas due to barriers in the housing market. Besides, migrants might face sociocultural and knowledge difficulties concerning sharing mobility systems and cycling, which could lead to car dependency/ addiction.
Hence, we have identified the following mobility challenges for our living lab: expanding and better connecting the offer for public transport and the cycling infrastructure, developing mobility-shared services (bike and car) that would work when implemented (with the population support), promoting mixed land uses, connecting the land use plan with the mobility plan, and reducing private car dependency/addiction.
Objectives:
- Provide a comprehensive and comparative analysis of 15-minute city lifestyles in various low- to mid-density suburban and urban outskirts in the six living labs.
- Develop and test new business models and governance frameworks for new shared mobility services and flexible activity hubs in low/medium-density areas.
- Develop and apply a decision support tool for the co-creation and impact assessment of mobility services, mobility hubs, and flexible activity hubs in the living labs.
- Examine the mobility, accessibility, and societal impacts of the proposed business models and governance frameworks.
- Give policy recommendations on creating sustainable and inclusive urban mobility in 15-minute city neighborhoods in the outskirts.
Contractor:
DRIVING URBAN TRANSITIONS PARTNERSHIP (DUT)
Project coordinator:
University of Twente (UT)
Partners:
| Scientific partners: | Other partners: |
| University of Twente (NL) | L'Institut Paris Region (FR) |
| Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (AT) | Mobyome (AT) |
| Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE) | Mpact (BE) |
| Université Gustave Eiffel (FR) | KTI (HU) |
| Technische Universität München (GER) | Rakosmente (HU) |
| Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU) | EIT Urban Mobility (GER) |
| Technische Universität Wien (AT) | stadtland (AT) |
| University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (NL) | TIER Mobility (NL) |
| Gemeente Utrecht (NL) | |
| Fietsersbond (NL) | |
| Cambio (BE) | |
| Brussels Mobility (BE) | |
| BKK (HU) | |
| MO.Point (AT) | |
| Munich Public Transport Association – MVV (GER) | |
| Sixt Share (GER) | |
| Morgenjungs (AT) | |
| Conseil départemental de l’Essonne (FR) | |
| Region Ile de France (FR) | |
| Wirtschaftsagentur Wien (AT) |
Duration:
January 2024 – December 2026
Contact:
Technical University of Munich:
Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Büttner (benjamin.buettner@tum.de)
Dr.-Ing. David Telmo Duran Rodas (david.duran@tum.de)
M.Sc. Ana Clara Caixeta Szymanski Nogueira (ana.caixeta@tum.de)
M.Sc. Bartosz McCormick (bartosz.mccormick@tum.de)