MCube: Car-reduced quarters for a more livable city (AQT)

Project Description

The overarching goal of AQT is to develop a spatial and transport concept for selected neighborhoods in Munich, that shall increase the acceptance and use of multimodal use of multimodal transport options, significantly reduce individual car ownership and use, and thus enable an upgrading of the area. In order to achieve this, AQT focuses on interdisciplinary research and transformative processes. Involved stakeholder interests, political hurdles, and spatial quality are considered. Considering that individual technical solutions have not yet brought about the necessary change for an ecologically and socially sustainable transport turnaround and have not led to a measurable reduction in individual motorized traffic, the aim is now to realize potentials in sustainable urban design, traffic management and resident participation.
For this purpose, a comprehensive system analysis of the influencing factors from actors networks, spatial and cluster structures as well as decision-making and planning procedures (WP 1) will be carried out. In co-creative processes, scenarios and concrete measures for multimodal mobility will be developed and connected to the redesign of the public road space and changing lifestyles (WP 2). On the basis of selected urban neighborhoods in Munich, the effect of the proposed measures on mobility behavior will be simulated macroscopically and microscopically (WP 3) and investigated in real-life laboratories (WP 4). Here, changes in the spatial situation and the provision of new mobility services (e.g., mobility hub networks) will be will be taken into account.

Tasks of the Chair

WP 1.1 Potential analysis, stakeholder integration, selection of neighborhoods, analysis of the optimal modal split and comparison with actual situation
WP 1.3 Contribution to stakeholder mapping
WP 1.5 Evaluation & synthesis of implemented measures (e.g. in the real-world laboratories)
WP 2.1 Mission statement livable urban neighborhoods
WP 2.3 Co-development of transformative teaching and research formats
WP 3.2 Modeling of the (microscopic) interactions between pedestrians, bicyclists and users of the Micromobility services