Smart mobility in location development

Proposition

How do you properly capture mobility needs when building new housing? How do you use area development to stimulate the mobility transition? And how do you determine whether the decisions you take now are future-proof and can count on sufficient support from all your stakeholders? These are all important questions in area development that we would like to help you answer.

Smart and clean mobility solutions in area developments

Over the next few years, the Netherlands will have to take up the housing challenge. As a result, (large-scale) urban environments will have to be infilled. This infill leads to increased mobility in areas that are already very busy. This could potentially make mobility a bottleneck. Expanding the car infrastructure is far from always an option. There is often no room for it, it is too expensive and it certainly does not always contribute to the quality of the living environment. That is why it is important to look for smarter and cleaner mobility solutions that still make the area to be developed accessible. To ensure that smart mobility solutions contribute optimally to creating an attractive and sustainable living environment, we have developed an approach.

Our approach using the smart mobility wheel

Using the 'smart mobility wheel' developed by Goudappel, we investigate possible solutions for mobility issues in area development. We go through a number of steps to arrive at concrete action perspectives for our clients.

Smart mobility wheel (in Dutch)

Our 6-step approach

Defining starting points

We take the client's current policy and the associated objectives and ambitions for the area to be developed as a starting point.
Creating frameworks

We create frameworks. To do this, we map out what questions the area development raises in terms of mobility. "How many houses will there be? Will there be a public transport hub? What are the basic principles for parking?" etc. This gives us a good impression of the size of the issue.

When quantification proves necessary to further identify the size of the mobility issue, we calculate the situation. This answers questions such as "what does the area development mean for the transport mode choice of future residents or visitors, for the traffic load on the network, and for the liveability of the area looking at safety and the environment?"
Examining solutions

Using our smart mobility wheel, we explore possible solutions to the mobility issue.
Quantifying effects

Together with you, we select the most promising 'smart solutions' and, where possible, quantify the effects of these solutions.
Advising on best solutions

Based on our analysis and insights, we make a proposal as to which mobility solutions can best be deployed in the area development, in order to design mobility in such a way that it fits within the client's set frameworks and contributes to a sustainable and attractive living environment.
Programme of requirements

We record our advice in a programme of requirements, a mobility concept, a mobility strategy, or a project note. In this way, we provide the client with the necessary guidance to start the next phase of area development, with the certainty that mobility will not be a bottleneck and that this area development will even contribute to the mobility transition.

In short, our approach offers you an insight into the possibilities (and impossibilities) of area development with regard to mobility, insight into which smart solutions can be applied and what (quantitative) effect they have, as well as concrete action perspectives on how to optimally organise mobility, aimed at both the housing challenge and the mobility transition.

Why choose us for an advise about the use of smart mobility in location developments

Goudappel has a good overview of the integrality of mobility issues and how they relate to other topics in area development. We have in-house consultants who approach mobility from various perspectives, such as spatial, traffic, safety or sustainability. Together, our experts arrive at an integrated approach.
Our consultants have the most up-to-date knowledge of the entire scope of smart mobility and of the entire mobility domain.
We base our insights and advice on high-quality mobility data and models. For example, we use OmniTRANS Spectrum.
We can participate in the strategic, tactical and operational phases of an area development. We know what is important in which phase of area development, but also what the impact of certain decisions is on a follow-up phase.
We know all the different stakeholders in the process, which makes us very suitable as a process supervisor and allows us to play an important role in creating support among all stakeholders.